Viet Nam Borderless Histories

Name: Viet Nam Borderless Histories
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ISBN: 9780299217747

ISBN-10: 0299217744

ISBN-13: 9780299217747

Edition: 2006

Authors: Nhung Tuyet Tran, Anthony Reid, Phan Huy Le, Insun Yu, Sun Laichen

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Moving beyond past histories of Viet Nam that have focused on nationalist struggle, this volume brings together work by scholars who are re-examining centuries of Vietnamese history.nbsp; Crossing borders and exploring ambiguities, the essays in Viet Nam: Borderless Histories draw on international archives and bring a range of inventive analytical approaches to the global, regional, national, and local narratives of Vietnamese history. Among the topics explored are the extraordinary diversity between north and south, lowland and highland, Viet and minority, and between colonial, Chinese, Southeast Asian, and dynastic influences. The result is an exciting new approach to Southeast Asia's…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 8/29/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Nhung Tuyet Tran is assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto. Anthony Reid is founding director of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.nbsp;



Preface


A Note on Terminology/Transliteration


Introduction: The Construction of Vietnamese Historical Identities




Research on the Vietnamese Village: Assessment and Perspectives



Constructing Viet against a Han World



Le Van Huu and Ngo Si Lien: A Comparison of Their Perception of Vietnamese History




Chinese Gunpowder Technology and Dai Viet, ca. 1390-1497




Beyond the Myth of Equality: Daughters' Inheritance Rights in the Le Code



Southern Pluralities



The Eighteenth-Century Mekong Delta and Its World of Water Frontier




One Region, Two Histories: Cham Precedents in the History of the Hoi An Region




Transnationalism and Multiethnicity in the Early Nguyen Anh Gia Long Period



Rediscovering Vietnamese-European Encounters



Crossing Oceans, Crossing Boundaries: The Remarkable Life of Philiphe Binh (1759-1832)




Strangers in a Foreign Land: Vietnamese Soldiers and Workers in France during World War I




Recasting Pigneau de Behaine: Missionaries and the Politics of French Colonial History, 1894-1914



Glossary


Bibliography


Contributors


Index