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Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Nguyen and Ching Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (East Asian Monograph): 140 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) - Softcover

Woodside, Alexander

 
9780674937215: Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Nguyen and Ching Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (East Asian Monograph): 140 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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.

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About the Author

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

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