Phan Huy Lê (; Thạch Châu, Lộc Hà district,

Hà Tĩnh Hà Tĩnh () is a city in Vietnam.Atlas of the World', Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 236. It is the capital of Hà Tĩnh Province, and lies in the North Central Coast region. It is located on National Highway 1A. The Vietnamese capital Han ...

province, 23 February 1934 – 23 June 2018) was a Vietnamese historian and professor of history at the

Hanoi National University Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU; , ĐHQGHN) is a public university, public research university, research university system in Hanoi, Vietnam. The university system has 10 member universities and faculties. VNU is one of two Vietnam's nat ...

. He authored of many studies on village society, landholding patterns and peasant revolution in particular, and in Vietnamese history in general. Phan was director of the Center for Vietnamese and Intercultural Studies at

Vietnam National University, Hanoi Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU; , ĐHQGHN) is a public research university system in Hanoi, Vietnam. The university system has 10 member universities and faculties. VNU is one of two Vietnam's national universities, the other one being ...

. Phan belonged to the school of historians, including also Trần Quốc Vượng distinguishing 'Vietnamese-ness' without relation to Chinese influences.Patricia M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past - Page 50 "Phan Huy Lê—published two pathbreaking studies, Primitive Communism and The History of Feudalism, from which ..."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Phan, Huy Le 1934 births 2018 deaths 20th-century Vietnamese historians People from Hà Tĩnh province 21st-century Vietnamese historians Academic staff of Vietnam National University, Hanoi