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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
Chronology
Chronicles and Other Historical Sources
A Note on Names and Dates
Introduction
Part I Premodern Vietnam
1. The Period of Northern Empire
THE LAND
Chen Shou: South And North
Shen Quanq: Life in the South
Zeng Gun: The Spirit Cao Lo
ECONOMICS AND TRADE
Chen Shou: Riches Of The South
Xue Zong: Economics In The South
Liu Xu: Maritime Trade in the South (945)
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Mou Bo: Beliefs in the South (ca. 200)
Chen Shou: Scholarship in the South (297)
Tan Qian: Buddhism in the South
Shen Quanqi: Buddhism as It Existed in the South
Zeng Gun: The Mountain Spirit
GOVERNANCE
Fan Ye: Ma Yuan’s Administration
Chen Shou: Governing the South
Zhao Cheng: An Indigenous King
Gao Pian: A Northerner Governing the South
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Fan Ye: Han Officials in the South
Zhou Cheng: Memorial on the South
Xue Zong: Customs of the South
Dao Huang: Relations with Champa
2. The Ly, Tran, and Ho Epochs
THE LAND
Ly Thai To: Edict on Moving the Capital
Ly Thuong Kiet: The Southern Land
The Spirit of To Lich
Ly Nhan Tong: Poems on a Buddhist Land
Tran Minh Tong: Royal Poems on the Land
Ly Te Xuyen: The Cult of Phung Hung
The Buddhist Monk Khuong Viet
A Vietnamese Antiquity
Nguyen Nhu Thuyet: Protest on Moving the Capital
ECONOMICS AND TRADE
Le Van Huu: Preserving Livestock
Le Van Huu: Foreign Trade
Ngo Si Lien: The Diking System
Ngo Si Lien: Northern Commerce
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Power and Redemption
Buddhist Poems
Le Van Huu: Buddhist Cults
Lady God of the Earth
The Queen Mother and Thong Bien: The Origins of Buddhism in Dai Viet
Funeral Inscription of a Court Minister
Buddhism and the Sages
Literati on Buddhism and the Spirits
Tue Trung: Thien Beliefs
Ly Te Xuyen: The Trung Sisters
Truong Han Sieu: A Literatus’s Inscription for a Buddhist Temple
The Literati’s New Worldview
GOVERNANCE
Phap Thuan: Advising the King
Omens and Prophecies
The Spirit of Phu Dong
Funeral Inscription of a Court Minister
Ngo Si Lien: The Oath Ritual
Ngo Si Lien: Officials and Village Registers
Le Van Huu: A Literatus’s Critique of a Past Court Minister
Le Van Huu: Utilizing the Past to Define the Present
Ly Te Xuyen: The Ideal Official
How to Govern
Literati Poems, Literati Concerns
Ho Quy Ly: Dai Ngu and the Ming Court
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Ly Thanh Tong: Life in Jail
Funeral Inscription of Do Anh Vu: Life of a Court Minister
Funeral Inscription of the Phung Thanh Lady: Life of a Court Lady
Dam Di Mong: Cleaning Up the Monastic Community
Ngo Si Lien: Social Categories
Ngo Si Lien: Aristocratic Life
Ngo Si Lien: Scholarly Life
Le Van Huu: The Trung Sisters
ETHNIC RELATIONS
The Nung and the Cham
Le Van Huu: Music of Champa
External Threats
Le Van Huu: Critique on Handling the Nung
Ngo Si Lien: A Tran Prince and a Mountain Chief
Nguyen Trung Ngan: The Ma Nhai Inscription
Ngo Si Lien: Foreign Cultures
3. The Le and Mac Epochs
THE LAND
Le thai to and Nguyen Trai: Great Proclamation on the Defeat of the Ming
Mapping the Land
Hoang Duc Luong: A Literati View of the Land
Duong Van An: A Cosmic View of the Land
ECONOMICS AND TRADE
Le thai to and Nguyen Trai: Edict on Currency
Le Code: Public and Private Lands
Foreign Trade
Le Code: Laws on Foreign Commerce
Le Thanh Tong: Government and the Economy
Le Code: Draft Animals
Le Code: Elephants
Le Code: Market Regulations
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Praying for Rain
Debate over Music and Ritual
Phan Phu Tien: The Temple of Literature
Le Thanh Tong: Changing the Reign Name
Rules of Behavior
Ngo Si Lien: Literati Beliefs
Vu Quynh: Collecting Tales
Literati and Buddhist Temple Inscriptions
Nguyen Binh Khiem: The Three Teachings
GOVERNANCE
Le thai to and Nguyen Trai: How to Govern
Le Code: Village Registers
Demotion of the Queen
Phan Phu Tien: Continuity in Governance
Le Thanh Tong: Literati Government
Le Thanh Tong: The Proper Minister
Ngo Si Lien: South and North
Ngo Si Lien: Critique of a Past Court Minister
Le Thanh Tong: The Purpose of Government
Nguyen Binh Khiem: Good Government
Duong Van An: Dynastic Change
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Le Code: Law and Social Status
Le Code: Controlling Powerful Families
The Literati and Local Custom
Le Code: Private Property
Le Code: Ideology and Social Structure
Mourning
Public Land and Powerful Families
Children and the Law
The King on Bad Behavior
Le Code: Marriage
Marriage and Mourning
Ritual and Patrilineality
ETHNIC RELATIONS
Le Code Law and Ethnic Groups
Nguyen Trai and Others
Regarding Cultural Influences
Le Thanh Tong: Edict on Champa
Ordering Ethnic Groups to Conform
Receiving Foreign Envoys
Part II Early Modern Vietnam
4. The Trinh-Nguyen Period
THE LAND
Ngo Thi Si: On Vietnamese Geography
Nguyen Hoang: Deathbed Statement to His Son
Nguyen Khoa Chiem: Recorded Tales of the Founding of the Country
Trinh Can: Edict to the Peoples of Quang Nam
ECONOMICS AND TRADE
Khanh Duc Emperor: Edict Prohibiting Foreigners from Taking Up Residence Without Restrictions
Le Quy Don: Wealth of the Nguyen Realm
Ngo The Lan: Memorial on the Currency Crisis
Quang Trung Emperor: Edict Encouraging Agriculture
Quang Trung Emperor: Letter to the Governor of Macao
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Le Quy Don: On ly and khi
Phan Huy Ich
Preface to The Sound of the True Great and Perfect Enlightenment from the Bamboo Grove
Ngo Thi Nham: The Sound of Emptiness
The Child-Giving Guanyin
Pham Dinh Ho: Ritual for Venerating Heaven
POLITICAL REFORM
Bui Si Tiem: Ten Items for Reform
Nguyen Cu Trinh: Memorial Describing the Economic Crisis in the Nguyen Realm
Nguyen Thiep: Memorial Regarding the Economic Crisisin Nghe An
Trinh Tac: Edict Regarding Official Positions
Temple of Literature Stele for the Examination of 1623
GOVERNANCE
Nguyen Phuc Khoat: Edict Declaring Autonomy
Le Duy Mat: Proclamation to Rally Troops
Ngo Family Literary Group: The Unification Records of the Imperial Le
Ngo Thi Nham: Letter to Ngo Tuong Dao
Quang Trung Emperor: Edict on Ascending the Throne
Treaty of Versailles Between Nguyen Anhand King Louis XVI
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Bento Thien: Regarding Festivals
Trinh Cuong: Edict Regarding Local Customs
Hoang Quang: Lament for the South
Le Huu Trac: Discourse on Medical Training
Le Quy Don: Introduction to The Complete Anthology of Vietnamese Literature
Le Quy Don: Preface to the Literature Section of General History of dai Viet
Nguyen Huy Luong: Rhapsody on West Lake
Pham Dinh Ho: On Marriage
5. The Early Nguyen Dynasty
THE LAND
Gia Long Emperor: Naming the Country Viet Nam
Minh Mang Emperor: Naming the Country Dai Nam
Le Quang Dinh: Vietnamese Geographical Expansion
Nguyen Van Sieu: Tales of the Country of Cambodia
Phan Huy Chu: Ha Noi / Son Nam
Trinh Hoai Duc: Climate and Geography of Gia Dinh
ECONOMICS AND TRADE
Phan Huy Chu: State Use of Resources
Minh Mang Emperor: Policy for Trading with Europeans
GOVERNANCE
Phan Huy Chu: Preface to Categorized Records of the Institutions of Successive Dynasties
Phan Huy Chu: Records of Men
Minh Mang Emperor: Edict to the Literati and Commoners of the Six Provinces of Southern Vietnam
Nguyen Truong To: A Plan for Making the People Wealthy and the Country Strong
Nguyen Dynasty History Board: Nguyen Comment on the Fate of the Le
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Tran Dam Trai: Two Noteworthy Women
Trinh Hoai Duc: Customs of Gia Dinh
Nguyen Du: A Dirge for All Ten Classes of Beings
Ho Xuan Huong: Selected Poems
Minh Mang Emperor: Ten Moral Precepts
Truong Vinh Ky: Tales from a Journey to the Northern Region
FOREIGN RELATIONS AND WARFARE
Gia Long Emperor: Commemoration of the Defeat of the Tay Son
Phan Huy Chu: Summary Record of an Overseas Journey
Phan Huy Chu: A Record of Military Systems
Debating French Demands
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Gia Long Emperor: Edict Outlining Propriety and Ritual
Trinh Hoai Duc:Temple of the General of the Southern Seas
Minh Mang Emperor: Comments Regarding Christianity
Thien Mu Pagoda
Part III Modern Vietnam
6.The Colonial Era
THE LAND
Hoang Dieu: Farewell Apologies to the Emperor
Ham Nghi Emperor: Royal Edict on Resistance
Phan Boi Chau: The History of the Loss of the Country
RESPONSES TO THE FRENCH
Phan Boi Chau: A Letter from Abroad Written in Blood
Tonkin Free School: A Civilization of New Learning
Phan Chau Trinh: Monarchy and Democracy
Nguyen An Ninh: The Ideal of Annamese Youth
Pham Quynh: Intellectual and Moral Reform
Nguyen Thai Hoc: Letter Addressed to the French Chambre des Députés
Ho Chi Minh: The Revolutionary’s Code of Conduct
Ho Chi Minh: Revolutionary Character and Morality
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Pham Quynh: Kim Van Kieu and the National Language
Hoang Dao: Modernize Completely and Without Hesitation
New Poetry
Tran Trong Kim: Confucianism
Dao Duy Anh: Vietnam in the Modern Age
RELIGION
Cao Dai: The New Code and Three Spirit Messages
Tri Hai: Why We Must Revive Buddhism
Huynh Phu So: The Way to Practice Religion and Rules for Everyday Life
7. The Independence Era
THE LAND
Hoang Cam: On the Other Side of the Duong River
FOREIGN CONFLICTS
Vo Nguyen Giap: The War of Liberation
Tran Van Tra: Tet, the Year of the Monkey
POLITICAL TRANSITIONS AND POLITICS
Ho Chi Minh: Declaration of Independence
Ngo Dinh Diem: On the Promulgation of the Constitution
Nguyen Thi Dinh: No Other Road to Take
Truong Chinh: Completing National Reunification
Tran Do: Letter to the Communist Party Urging Democratic Reform
ECONOMICS
Ho Chi Minh: On the Basic Completion of Land Reform in the North
Republic of Vietnam: Law on Land to the Tiller
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Resolution of the Sixth Party Congress
Dinh Thu Cuc: "The Peasants and Countryside in Vietnam Today"
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Truong Chinh: Marxism and Vietnamese Culture
Tran Dan: We Must Win
Democratic Republic of Vietnam: Law on Marriage and the Family
Northern and Southern Poetry and Song During the Vietnam War
Nguyen Thi Thap: Returning to My Home Village
RELIGION
Thich Nhat Hanh: The Miracle of Mindfulness
Nguyen Van Binh: Vietnamese Catholics, Marxism, and the Problems of Catechistic Instruction
Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Decree on Religious Activities
ETHNIC AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Chu Van Tan: The Founding of the People’s Liberation Armed Forces
Republic of Vietnam: Laws on Vietnamese Nationality
Phan Doan Nam: Aligning the Strength of the Nation withthe Power of the Age
Bibliography
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