Re-thinking the sea in Vietnamese history: littoral society in the integration of Thuan-Quang, seventeenth-eighteenth centuries.

From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: February 1, 2006| Author: Wheeler, Charles | Copyright information

The typical village of Viet Nam is enclosed within a thick wall of bamboo and thorny plants; the villagers used to live behind a kind of screen of bamboo ... perhaps it was more like living in the magic ring of a fairy tale ...

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Ra vo'i moi biet nong sau, o' trong lach hoi biet dau ma do?

Leave the shore, only then will you know what is deep and what is shallow. Among the creeks and ditches, who knows where or what to fathom?

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