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Literati Culture and Integration in Dai Viet, c. 1430–c. 18401

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

John K. Whitmore
John K. Whitmore
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The land of Dai Viet, whose political and cultural heartland lay in what is now northern Vietnam, followed patterns somewhat analogous to those posited in other Eurasian ‘rimland’ states. The fifteenth to nineteenth centuries saw administrative centralization, territorial expansion, population growth, economic elaboration, a greater emphasis on textuality and moral orthodoxy, and growing cultural standardization. In contrast to France and West European states, however, the Vietnamese achieved this integration less by refining patterns established during the prior ‘charter age’ (c. 900–1400 c.e.) than by adopting a radically new model, that of the contemporary Ming government in China.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 665 - 687
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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