Beyond the Bronze Pillars: Envoy Poetry and the Sino-Vietnamese Relationship

by Liam C. Kelley

Beyond the Bronze Pillars is an innovative and iconoclastic look at the politico-cultural relationship between Vietnam and China in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Overturning the established view that historically the Vietnamese sought to maintain a separate cultural identity and engaged in tributary relations with the Middle Kingdom solely to avoid invasion, Liam Kelley shows how Vietnamese literati sought to unify their cultural practices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082482847X
• ISBN13: 9780824828479
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"