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An Alternative Vietnam? The Nguyen Kingdom in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2011

Li Tana
Li Tana
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University of Wollongong
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Abstract

The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Nguyen kingdom was known as Dang Trong to Vietnamese, and Cochinchina by the Westerners. In just 200 years it won control over three-fifths of the territory in modern Vietnam. The experiences of this expanding southern frontier area seem to suggest an image of Vietnam that is very different from the north, opening a door to an alternative world in which diversity was tolerated, and indeed exploited, for Vietnam's own development.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 111 - 121
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1998

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