Tana Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tana Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tana |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9139-9218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century
Despite its 3,000 kilometre coastline, few people see Vietnam as a maritime country. Here Li Tana presents a powerful new argument about Vietnamese history: that key political changes resulted from the impact, economic and otherwise, of the sea. This is a finely layered account covering the two millennia before colonisation that radically restructures how we understand the role of the maritime and trans-regional in Vietnam's early history. Drawin…
A Tale of Two Waterways
This article seeks to tell the story of a river and a canal in pre-fifteenth-century Thanh Hóa. Although apparently dissimilar, the fate of both waterways reflected a similar process, as both lived or died from the consequences of dynastic attempts to promote integration by bridging the territory of northern Vietnam with that of Champa. Integration was a central goal for the Việt authorities and water was one of their most important means. The st…
A Historical Sketch of the Landscape of the Red River Delta
This article is an attempt to stand back and re-imagine the landscape of the Red River over the last two millennia. The only static components of the Red River valley and delta are its mountains and geological deposits, everything else has changed over time. By marrying historical records with recent scientific findings on the Red River, this article outlines aspects of these changes; including changes to the climate and landscape, the possibilit…
Swamps, lakes, rivers and elephants: A preliminary attempt towards an environmental history of the Red River Delta, C. 600–1400
Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400
This article focuses on the eastern region of the Red River Delta, Vietnam, between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. This area was an important centre of economic and population growth in Đại Việt in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and nurtured Đại Việt's sophisticated and renowned ceramics industry, hosted leading schools of Vietnamese Buddhism and bred a rising class of scholars and bureaucrats. The region's rapid rise as an economic…
Anthony Reid and the Study of the Southeast Asian Past
o celebrate Anthony Reid's numerous and seminal contributions to the field of Southeast Asian history, a group of his colleagues and students has contributed essays for this Festschrift. In addition to introductory essays which provide personal and intellectual histories of Anthony Reid the man, there is a range of original scholarly contributions addressing historical issues which Reid has researched during his career. Divided into sections whic…
Between Mountains and the Sea
This article attempts to piece together the available data on Sino-Vietnamese trade of northern Vietnam in the early nineteenth century with a focus on its upland region. This essay shares the views expressed in the works by Oscar Salemink, Philip Talor, Sarah Turner and other scholars on northern uplands, and in particular their rejection of the “urban-rural,” “advanced-backward,” “civilized-barbarian,” lowland-highland dichotomies. But building…
Cochinchinese Coin Casting and Circulating in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia
While much has been written about Chinese business networks in modern Southeast Asia, there has been little discussion about the coins used in the various trade ports and their origins. Moreover, when they have been studied, coin casting and circulating have been examined mostly within specific local contexts, with only vague references to China and the Chinese.1 In this essay I explore the links of the coin business between eighteenthcentury Coc…
The Tongking Gulf Through History
Preface Introduction. Tongking Gulf Through History: A Geopolitical Overview -Li Tana PART I. THE JIAOZHI ERA IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 1. Textile Crafts in the Gulf of Tongking: Intersection of Archaeology and History -Judith Cameron 2. Jiaozhi (Giao Chi) in the Han Period Tongking Gulf -Li Tana 3. Han Period Glass Vessels in the Early Tongking Gulf Region -Brigitte Borell 4. The People in Between: Li and Lao from the Han to the Sui -Michael Ch…
The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts
A View from the Sea: Perspectives on the Northern and Central Vietnamese Coast
This article challenges the perceived image of ‘traditional’ Vietnam by viewing the polity's early history from the sea. A trading zone existed in the Gulf of Tonkin area, stretching to Hainan Island and northern Champa by sea, and overland to Yunnan and Laos. Commerce and interactions of peoples in this area played a crucial part in state formation for Vietnam
An Alternative Vietnam? The Nguyen Kingdom in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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 Vie…
Nguyen Cochinchina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
In this historical reassessment of southern Vietnam and its distinct culture, Li Tana illuminates the resourceful qualities of the Dong Trong pioneers, develops a meticulous analysis of the Nguyen trade and taxation systems, and, in the process, redefines the chief cause of the Tay Son rebellion. Li Tana's study focuses on the socio-economics of Nguyen Cochinchina, such as: the role of foreign merchants, the region's trading economy, demographic …
Peasants on the Move: Rural-Urban Migration in the Hanoi Region
Almost all developing countries are plagued by the problem of peasants crowding into cities in search of a better life. For scholars of and visitors to Vietnam, it is increasingly clear that the problem has also arrived in this recently freed socialist economy. Is it going to get worse before it gets better? What is officialdom’s response to the social disruptions and friction it causes? This ISEAS study completed at the end of 1993 is one of a f…
Between Mountains and the Sea
This article attempts to piece together the available data on Sino-Vietnamese trade of northern Vietnam in the early nineteenth century with a focus on its upland region. This essay shares the views expressed in the works by Oscar Salemink, Philip Talor, Sarah Turner and other scholars on northern uplands, and in particular their rejection of the “urban-rural,” “advanced-backward,” “civilized-barbarian,” lowland-highland dichotomies. But building…
Swamps, lakes, rivers and elephants: A preliminary attempt towards an environmental history of the Red River Delta, C. 600–1400
A View from the Sea: Perspectives on the Northern and Central Vietnamese Coast
This article challenges the perceived image of ‘traditional’ Vietnam by viewing the polity's early history from the sea. A trading zone existed in the Gulf of Tonkin area, stretching to Hainan Island and northern Champa by sea, and overland to Yunnan and Laos. Commerce and interactions of peoples in this area played a crucial part in state formation for Vietnam
An Alternative Vietnam? The Nguyen Kingdom in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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 Vie…
A Historical Sketch of the Landscape of the Red River Delta
This article is an attempt to stand back and re-imagine the landscape of the Red River over the last two millennia. The only static components of the Red River valley and delta are its mountains and geological deposits, everything else has changed over time. By marrying historical records with recent scientific findings on the Red River, this article outlines aspects of these changes; including changes to the climate and landscape, the possibilit…
Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400
This article focuses on the eastern region of the Red River Delta, Vietnam, between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. This area was an important centre of economic and population growth in Đại Việt in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and nurtured Đại Việt's sophisticated and renowned ceramics industry, hosted leading schools of Vietnamese Buddhism and bred a rising class of scholars and bureaucrats. The region's rapid rise as an economic…
Peasants on the Move: Rural-Urban Migration in the Hanoi Region
Almost all developing countries are plagued by the problem of peasants crowding into cities in search of a better life. For scholars of and visitors to Vietnam, it is increasingly clear that the problem has also arrived in this recently freed socialist economy. Is it going to get worse before it gets better? What is officialdom’s response to the social disruptions and friction it causes? This ISEAS study completed at the end of 1993 is one of a f…
An Alternative Vietnam? The Nguyen Kingdom in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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 Vie…
Nguyen Cochinchina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
In this historical reassessment of southern Vietnam and its distinct culture, Li Tana illuminates the resourceful qualities of the Dong Trong pioneers, develops a meticulous analysis of the Nguyen trade and taxation systems, and, in the process, redefines the chief cause of the Tay Son rebellion. Li Tana's study focuses on the socio-economics of Nguyen Cochinchina, such as: the role of foreign merchants, the region's trading economy, demographic …
A View from the Sea: Perspectives on the Northern and Central Vietnamese Coast
This article challenges the perceived image of ‘traditional’ Vietnam by viewing the polity's early history from the sea. A trading zone existed in the Gulf of Tonkin area, stretching to Hainan Island and northern Champa by sea, and overland to Yunnan and Laos. Commerce and interactions of peoples in this area played a crucial part in state formation for Vietnam
Cochinchinese Coin Casting and Circulating in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia
While much has been written about Chinese business networks in modern Southeast Asia, there has been little discussion about the coins used in the various trade ports and their origins. Moreover, when they have been studied, coin casting and circulating have been examined mostly within specific local contexts, with only vague references to China and the Chinese.1 In this essay I explore the links of the coin business between eighteenthcentury Coc…
The Tongking Gulf Through History
Preface Introduction. Tongking Gulf Through History: A Geopolitical Overview -Li Tana PART I. THE JIAOZHI ERA IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 1. Textile Crafts in the Gulf of Tongking: Intersection of Archaeology and History -Judith Cameron 2. Jiaozhi (Giao Chi) in the Han Period Tongking Gulf -Li Tana 3. Han Period Glass Vessels in the Early Tongking Gulf Region -Brigitte Borell 4. The People in Between: Li and Lao from the Han to the Sui -Michael Ch…
The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts
Anthony Reid and the Study of the Southeast Asian Past
o celebrate Anthony Reid's numerous and seminal contributions to the field of Southeast Asian history, a group of his colleagues and students has contributed essays for this Festschrift. In addition to introductory essays which provide personal and intellectual histories of Anthony Reid the man, there is a range of original scholarly contributions addressing historical issues which Reid has researched during his career. Divided into sections whic…
Between Mountains and the Sea
This article attempts to piece together the available data on Sino-Vietnamese trade of northern Vietnam in the early nineteenth century with a focus on its upland region. This essay shares the views expressed in the works by Oscar Salemink, Philip Talor, Sarah Turner and other scholars on northern uplands, and in particular their rejection of the “urban-rural,” “advanced-backward,” “civilized-barbarian,” lowland-highland dichotomies. But building…
Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400
This article focuses on the eastern region of the Red River Delta, Vietnam, between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. This area was an important centre of economic and population growth in Đại Việt in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and nurtured Đại Việt's sophisticated and renowned ceramics industry, hosted leading schools of Vietnamese Buddhism and bred a rising class of scholars and bureaucrats. The region's rapid rise as an economic…
Swamps, lakes, rivers and elephants: A preliminary attempt towards an environmental history of the Red River Delta, C. 600–1400
A Historical Sketch of the Landscape of the Red River Delta
This article is an attempt to stand back and re-imagine the landscape of the Red River over the last two millennia. The only static components of the Red River valley and delta are its mountains and geological deposits, everything else has changed over time. By marrying historical records with recent scientific findings on the Red River, this article outlines aspects of these changes; including changes to the climate and landscape, the possibilit…
A Tale of Two Waterways
This article seeks to tell the story of a river and a canal in pre-fifteenth-century Thanh Hóa. Although apparently dissimilar, the fate of both waterways reflected a similar process, as both lived or died from the consequences of dynastic attempts to promote integration by bridging the territory of northern Vietnam with that of Champa. Integration was a central goal for the Việt authorities and water was one of their most important means. The st…
A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century
Despite its 3,000 kilometre coastline, few people see Vietnam as a maritime country. Here Li Tana presents a powerful new argument about Vietnamese history: that key political changes resulted from the impact, economic and otherwise, of the sea. This is a finely layered account covering the two millennia before colonisation that radically restructures how we understand the role of the maritime and trans-regional in Vietnam's early history. Drawin…
History (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (10 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (7 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Vietnamese (6 works) · History (5 works)