Talk:Vietnamese irredentism

Unreliable sources
The article currently cites several blogs such as and, which are generally unreliable (see WP:BLOGS). Large swathes of the article are sourced to these citations, including the claims of irredentism towards Southern China, which would fall under WP:EXCEPTIONAL and requires strong sourcing. A significant amount of the article also appears to be improper synthesis from sources that are contextually primary, such as and  to support claims about the popularity or nature of irredentist claims in Wikipedia's voice. The article could also use some copyediting for grammar and tone, but that's a secondary concern for after the sourcing issues are addressed. Pinging AfC reviewer ; I don't think you were necessarily wrong to accept the article, but the issues should have been tagged and the article was certainly not B-class. signed,Rosguill talk 20:37, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * , Yes, I did notice that some of the sources were not exactly high-quality; I rated it as B-class mainly because those sources were primarily attributed to Vietnamese nationalists and not said in Wikivoice; I see now that some of those sources were not. I would disagree that irredentist claims towards Southern China are WP:EXCEPTIONAL as the Vietnamese people themselves originated from Southern China as the Baiyue people. See further Vietnamese people Zoozaz1 (talk) 21:30, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Eh, I think that the maps purporting to claim literally all of southern China are a bit of a stretch nonetheless. While it's hardly conclusive, when searching for "Vietnamese irredentism" on Google Scholar only returns results about claims on Laos and Cambodia. signed,Rosguill talk 22:25, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

>origin of vietnam are the people of the lac viet and au viet tribe from the baiyue, forming to become the au lac tribe >au lac consisted of modern day guangxi, guangdong, yunnan >not allowed to have any claims in southern china

>nam viet/nan yue can also be considered as the vietnamese were subjects of the dynasty, with the king trieu da/zhao tuo abandoning his han ways and adopting vietnamese culture >not allowed to have any claims in southern china

You sound like a dictator, bossing your own decisions and denying what anyone says by just saying "eh, it's a bit of a stretch..." and using incomplete/imperfect western studying of vietnamese history by using english words to find out any accurate information of vietnamese history. Should I type in 'Indian irredentism' - an english word, not very likelt to be used by Indians to find out accurate information about India or should I study their language and their own history of their own texts?

This is the problem when it comes to westerners trying to understand another race's history and cultire. 9/10 times they get it wrong because they don't study the language and think their own biased answers are enough. Norewritingofhistory (talk) 20:36, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

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Vietnamese history in China and OR
Per our policy on original research, claims made in articles need to be directly supported by sources--it is not enough to identify that there has been Vietnamese history in China and infer irredentism based on that to make claims such as those in this edit; you need an actual RS stating that Vietnamese irredentists claim/have claimed the territories as part of their conception of a Greater Vietnam. signed,Rosguill talk 17:40, 11 July 2022 (UTC)

Source
I translate this sources for non-Vietnameses. It’s not perfect, but hope foreigners can somewhat understand this issue.

The traditional nationalism

“Greater Vietnam” or Đại-Việt nationalism of the Vietnamese feudal dynasties did not have the essence of a territorial claim that included Guangdong and Guangxi up to the Tây Sơn dynasty. The translation of "Hoàng Lê Nhất Thống Chí" says that: King Quang Trung, after deciding to prepare for a future war against China, sent his servant Vũ Văn Dũng to the Qing dynasty to propose a peacekeeping-marriage between him and a Qing princess, and through that, hope to reclaim the land of the two provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi.

[…]

We believe the above details are true because the Greater Vietnam-ism of the Tây Sơn dynasty was cleverly inherited and applied by Emperor Gia Long (first emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty). He wanted to name the rename the country as “Nam Việt”, a former name of Vietnam which was then ruled by an old Chinese-Vietnamese Zhao dynasty. In 1802, he sent an envoy to Beijing to ask the Qing Dynasty to recognize this national name but failed (due to the fact that the territory of former Nam Việt also comprised a large territory in China, which the Qing emperor feared the rise of Vietnam-nationalism). Therefore, he had to change from “Nam Việt” to “Việt Nam” in 1804, but in 1813, the Nguyễn court returned to the name of Đại Việt. In 1839, Emperor Minh Mạng once again changed the country's name to Đại Nam (Great South). The Vietnamese used this name until 1945, when the name “Vietnam” have been reused as we see it today.

Rise of the Great Baiyue-nationalism 

The rise of nationalism in Europe and the belief in irredentism (retake the old lands) and expansionism (expand borders to places where the people who from the same race live) have also affected on Vietnam, and it is even more ridiculous nowadays where people claimed the Baiyue tribes (ancestors of the Vietnamese) had a more advanced society than every country, and that the Chinese only copied the Viet’s culture and made it theirs.

Conclusion

The main reason why nationalism have become so extreme among nowadays Vietnamese (even if the country is no longer at war) is probably because people use it as a tool against Chinese nationalism. But this shouldn’t be used because of how dangerous it can be. — Daeva Trạc (talk) 20:05, 2 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Interestingly, a lot of people EXPECT to have English sources about an phenomenon in Vietnam. Not only that, but they also want these extremists’ sources to be reliable? If someone want to spread their ideals, the first place they will likely use is social media, as their propaganda will be more influential. And don’t think everything should be in English, at least try Google translate or something. — Daeva Trạc (talk) 20:12, 3 May 2023 (UTC)