Ming China and Vietnam

Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia

Bibliographic Data

ID19904993
AuthorsKathlene Baldanza (Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-03-29
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueMing China and Vietnam (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781316440551
OpenAlexW2493009875
Open LibraryOL34732255M
ISBN9781316440551
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited50

Studies of Sino-Viet relations have traditionally focused on Chinese aggression and Vietnamese resistance, or have assumed out-of-date ideas about Sinicization and the tributary system. They have limited themselves to national historical traditions, doing little to reach beyond the border. Ming China and Vietnam, by contrast, relies on sources and viewpoints from both sides of the border, for a truly transnational history of Sino-Viet relations. Kathlene Baldanza offers a detailed examination of geopolitical and cultural relations between Ming China (1368–1644) and Dai Viet, the state that would go on to become Vietnam. She highlights the internal debates and external alliances that characterized their diplomatic and military relations in the pre-modern period, showing especially that Vietnamese patronage of East Asian classical culture posed an ideological threat to Chinese states. Baldanza presents an analysis of seven linked biographies of Chinese and Vietnamese border-crossers whose lives illustrate the entangled histories of those countries

China · Geopolitics · Ideology · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sinicization · Sociology · State (computer science) · Vietnamese · Viewpoints · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · 1368-1644 · Diplomatic relations · foreign countries · foreign relations · Later Lê dynasty (Vietnam) · ming dynasty · Relations · Vietnam