Southern Vietman Under the Nguyen : : Documents on the Economic History of Cochinchina (Dang Trong), 1602-1777 / / ed. by Li Tana, Anthony Reid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Alilunas-Rodgers, Kristine,; Bulbeck, David,; Dȏn, Lê Quý,; Laarhoven, Ruurdje,; Quê, Tnrang Ɖăng,; Reid, Anthony,; Shan, Da,; Tana, Li,; Wonderaer, Jeronimus,
• HerausgeberIn: Reid, Anthony,; Tana, Li,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; LIST OF MAPS --; PREFACE --; 1. Introduction: The Vietnamese Southern Frontier --; 2. The Trials of a Foreign Merchant --; 3. A Japanese Resident's Account --; 4. THE END OF DUTCH RELATIONS WITH THE NGUYE" N STATE, 1651-2 --; 5. MAPS OF SOUTHERN VIETNAM, c.1690 --; 6. A CHINESE BUDDHIST REPORT, 1694-5 --; 7. DESCRIPTION OF COCHINCHINA, 1749-50 --; 8. MISCELLANEOUS NGUYEN RECORDS SEIZED IN 1775-6 --; 9. THE NGUYEN CHRONICLE TO 1777 --; 10. EXCHANGE RATES AND COMMODITY PRICES --; GLOSSARY OF GENERAL TERMS --; GLOSSARY OF VIETNAMESE TERMS --; CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF NGUYEN RULERS --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789814379472; 9783110649680; 9783110606690
• DOI: 10.1355/9789814379472
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Li Tana, Anthony Reid.

From about 1600 untill the Tay Son rebellion of the 1770s, there were two Vietnamese states. The southern one, with its centre around modern Hue and its southern frontier ever expanding into Cambodian territory in the Mekong delta, was the more dynamic, both economically cand military. Occupying as it did the strategic, habour studded coast along which most shipping passed between China and all points south and west, it was necessarily involved in the commerce of many peoples. Because it imposed a Vietnamese civilization on a variety of Khmer and Cham peoples it was also ethnically and socially creative. Nevertheless this southern states has remained in the historical shadows. It appreared marginal and even embarrassing to Vietnamese national discourse, partly because of its very diversity. Even its names -"Dang Trong", "Cochinchina" - remain perplexing and obsure. Southern Vietnam under the Nguyen attempst for the first time to make available in English some of the key sources on the conomic history of this complex region through translations from Vietnamese chronicles and from Chinese, Dutch, and French travel accounts.