An alternative Vietnam? The Nguyen kingdom in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

From: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies | Date: March 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

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 Vietnam's own development.

The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Nguyen kingdom which controlled the area later known to the West as Cochinchina, ...

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