Poetic Transformations : : Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects on the Mekong Plains / / Claudine Ang

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 419
• VerfasserIn: Ang, Claudine,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2019.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; Vietnamese
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 419.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 291 pages) :; illustrations, maps
• Notes: 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).

"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.

Table of Contents

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.