Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Chinese Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

by Alexander Barton Woodside

Book Overview

Why did the Vietnamese accept certain Chinese institutions and yet explicitly reject others? How did Vietnamese cultural borrowings from China alter the dynamics of traditional relations between Vietnam, Siam, Laos, and Cambodia? How did Vietnam's smaller Southeast Asian environment modify and distort classical East Asian institutions?

Alexander Woodside has answered these questions in this well-received political and cultural study. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067493721X
• ISBN13: 9780674937215
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"