UID:
almahu_9949703531102882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781684175970
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9780674237230
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 419
Content:
"In the eighteenth century, the Mekong plains were the site of convergence of multiple migratory groups with competing political ambitions. Drawing on Vietnamese and Chinese sources, this study identifies the ways in which two leading statesmen mobilized literature to effect the transformation of the frontier region"--Provided by publisher.
Note:
Based on the author's thesis, issued under the title: Statecraft on the margins : drama, poetry, and the civilizing mission in eighteenth-century southern Vietnam ( Ph. D.--Cornell University, 2012).
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Introduction: Cultural projects on the Southern Vietnamese frontier -- Part I. Drama on the frontier: Frontier humor and the inadequacies of orthodoxy -- The classical in the vernacular -- The illness of human emotions -- Part II. Lyrics and landscapes: Writing landscapes into civilization: Ming loyalist ambitions on the Mekong plains -- Epistolary expositions: geo-political realities on the Delta -- A Vietnamese re-imagining of a Chinese enclave -- Epilogue: Deaths of authors, lives of texts -- Appendix -- Translation of Nguyen Cu Trinh's Sai Vai (The monk and the nun), 1750.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Poetic Transformations : Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects on the Mekong Plains. Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2019 ISBN 9780674237230
Language:
English
