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

by Claudine Ang

In the eighteenth century, multiple migratory groups with competing political ambitions converged on the Mekong plains. In the frontier region, literati‐officials of a territorially expanding Vietnamese state crossed paths with a network of diasporic Chinese Ming loyalists closely affiliated with the coastal trading network. Drawing on vernacular Vietnamese and classical Chinese sources, Claudine Ang identifies the different ways two leading...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674237234
• ISBN13: 9780674237230
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"