Vietnam and the Chinese Model : A Comparative Study of Nguyen and Ch'ing Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Woodside, Alexander

ISBN 10: 067493721X / ISBN 13: 9780674937215

Published by Harvard University Asia Center, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vietnam and the Chinese Model : A Comparative Study of Nguyen and Ch'ing Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
• Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067493721X
• ISBN 13: 9780674937215
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

Why did the Vietnamese accept certain Chinese institutions and yet explicitly reject others? How did Vietnamese cultural borrowings from China alter the dynamics of traditional relations between Vietnam, Siam, Laos, and Cambodia? How did Vietnam’s smaller Southeast Asian environment modify and distort classical East Asian institutions?

Alexander Woodside has answered these questions in this well-received political and cultural study. This first real comparison of the civil governments of two traditional East Asian societies on an institution-by-institution basis is now reissued with a new preface.

About the Author

Alexander Woodside is Professor of Chinese and Southeast Asian History at the University of British Columbia.