By Ben Kiernan
This finished paintings lines Viet Nam's background, a story of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious history, from historical chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from autonomous kingdoms to contending areas, civil wars, French colonies, and sleek republics.
summary: This finished paintings lines Viet Nam's heritage, a story of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious background, from old chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from self sustaining kingdoms to contending areas, civil wars, French colonies, and glossy republics
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Part 3, “Kingdoms,” 940–1570, charts the end of imperial administration and the emergence and incremental, discontinuous development of Vietnamese monarchical rule and territorial consolidation, retreat, and expansion. Several centuries of improved climate conditions brought economic prosperity and also saw the ascendancy of Vietnamese Buddhism and a flourishing cultural and literary life, despite intermittent warfare with kingdoms of neighboring Champa and repeated brief but traumatic Chinese invasions.
11 The first French official to take charge of Sơn Tây province after the colonial conquest reported in 1886 that the Red River too could change course: “At each bend in its path, the river strikes with the speed of its waters against the concave bank. ” But across the river on the convex bank, eddies form, and the water stills. ” Mudflats form, then a new riverbank. 2 miles of new land. 16 (â•›26â•›)â•… Chiefdoms Yet the sea retains sway over this reclaimed land. As the rivers extended into the ocean, the sea continued to wash upriver.
60 The seventh key theme is the globalization of Việt Nam’s economy, Â�culture, and politics, especially in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This noticeably began in the early modern era with seaborne international trade; the arrival of European ideas, scripts, and technology; and by the mid-nineteenth century the increasingly thoughtful responses of Vietnamese to the challenges these posed. Each chapter that follows addresses some or all of these ten themes as keys to understanding Vietnamese history.