The Biography of the Hồng Bàng Clan as a Medieval Vietnamese Invented Tradition

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ID12814435
AuthorsLiam C Kelley (0000-0002-6770-8535, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume7
Issue2
Pages87-130
Publication date2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Vietnamese Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1559-372X • E-ISSN: 1559-3738
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/vs.2012.7.2.87
OpenAlexW1943098950
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This paper critically examines an account called the “Biography of the Hồng Bàng Clan” in a fifteenth-century text, the Arrayed Tales of Selected Oddities from South of the Passes [Lĩnh Nam chích quái liệt truyện]. This account is the source for the “historical” information about the Hùng kings. Scholars have long argued that this information was transmitted orally from the first millennium BCE until it was finally written down at some point after Vietnam became autonomous in the tenth century. In contrast, this paper argues that this information about the Hùng kings was created after Vietnam became autonomous and constitutes an “invented tradition.”

Ancient history · Art · Biography · Clan · Fifteenth · Linguistics · Literature · Sociology · Vietnamese · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Philosophy · Religious studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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