[Symposium on Vietnam] : [a maritime perspective]
| Published in: | Journal of Southeast Asian studies. - Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1970. - 37(2006), 1, Seite 83-153 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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| ISSN: | 0022-4634 |
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Vietnam ;
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| Summary: | Li Tana: A view from the sea : perspectives on the Northern and Central Vietnamese coast Whitmore, John K.: The rise of the coast : trade, state and culture in early Dai Viet Wheeler, Charles: Re-thinking the sea in Vietnamese history : littoral society in the integration of Thuan-Quang, seventeenth-eighteenth centuries [The first] article challenges the perceived image of "traditional" Vietnam by viewing the polity's early history from the sea. A trading zone existed in the Gulf of Tonkin area, stretching to Hainan Island and northern Champa by sea, and overland to Yunnan and Laos. Commerce and interactions of peoples in this area played a crucial part in state formation for Vietnam. The surge in Song foreign trade affected Dai Viet greatly, helping to integrate the upper and lower valley of the Red River first economically in the twelfth century, then politically with the rise of the Trân dynasty in the thirteenth, and finally culturally in the fourteenth. Coastal wealth, power and classical Chinese scholarship entered the inland capital of Thang Long (Hanoi) and strongly influenced it, leading to major changes across the land.[The third] article challenges conventional notions of geography in Vietnamese historiography that overlook the role of the sea as an integrative social space capable of uniting ostensibly segregated regions economically, socially and politically. Viewing history from the seashore instead of the rice field, it highlights the littoral inhabitants who connected interior agricultural and forest foragers to coasting and ocean carrier trade, and underscores the importance of the littoral as the "great river" that encouraged Vietnamese political expansion and state formation along a southern trajectory. (J Southeast Asian Stud/DÜI) |
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