Umfang:
xv, 291 Seiten
ISBN:
9780674237230
Serie:
Harvard East Asian monographs 419
Inhalt:
"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
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
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)
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Ang, Claudine Tsu Lyn, 1976- Statecraft on the margins ©2012
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Vietnam
;
Chinesen
;
Einfluss
;
Expansionspolitik
;
Lyrik
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
