Essays into Vietnamese Pasts

Published by Cornell University Press 1995

Essays into Vietnamese Pasts

Edited by: K. W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501718991

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Essays that demonstrate ways to "read" the pasts of Vietnam through detailed analyses of its art, chronicles, legends, documents, and monuments. The book's many voices undermine the idea of a single Vietnamese past. All the essays, while varied, are...

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This effort deserves high praise, for it has widened the scope of Vietnamese historiography and borne testimony to the depth and diversity of Vietnamese studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	3
Preface K. W. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Introduction John K. Whitmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
The Legend of Ông Dóng from the Text to the Field Trần Quôc Vuợrng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
The Vietnamization of the Cham Deity Pô Nagar Nguyễn Thể Anh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Inscriptions from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries Recently Discovered in Việt Nam Ha Van Tan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Voices Within and Without: Tales from Stone and Paper about Đỗ Anh Vũ (1114–1159) K. W. Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Rethinking Vietnamese Buddhist History: Is the Thiền Uyển Tap Arih a 'Transmission of the Lamp" Text? Cuong Tu Nguyen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chung-hsing and Cheng-t'ung in Texts of and on Sixteenth-Century Việt Nam John K. Whitmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Curious Relations: Jesuit Perceptions of the Vietnamese Micheline Lessard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Central Vietnam's Trading World in the Eighteenth Century as Seen in Lê Quý Đôn's "Frontier Chronicles" Alexander Woodside Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Printing and Power: Vietnamese Debates over Women's Place in Society, 1918-1934 Shawn McHale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
"Elegant Females" Re-Encountered: From Tokai Sanshi's Kajin No Kigû to Phan Chau Trinh js Giai Nhân Kỳ Ngộ Diên Ca Vĩnh Sĩnh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
What is to be Done? Hô Chi Minh's Đuòng Kách Mễnh' William J. Duiker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Hô Chi Minh's Independence Declaration David G. Marr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
The History of Resistance and the Resistance to History in Post- Colonial Constructions of the Past Patricia Pelley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Telling Life: An Approach to the Official Biography of Tôn Đuc Thắng Christoph Giebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Monumental Ambiguity: The State Commemoration of Hô Chi Minh Hue-Tarn Ho Tai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Asian Studies; History; Folklore

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Published: May 31, 2018
ISBN: 9781501718991