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Poetic transformations : eighteenth-century cultural projects on the Mekong plains /
"In the eighteenth century, the Mekong plains were the site of convergence of multiple migratory groups with competing political ambitions. Drawing on Vietnamese and Chinese sources, this study identifies the ways in which two leading statesmen mobilized literature to effect the transformation...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2019.
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
419. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Cultural projects on the Southern Vietnamese frontier
- Part I. Drama on the frontier: Frontier humor and the inadequacies of orthodoxy
- The classical in the vernacular
- The illness of human emotions
- Part II. Lyrics and landscapes: Writing landscapes into civilization: Ming loyalist ambitions on the Mekong plains
- Epistolary expositions: geopolitical realities on the Delta
- A Vietnamese reimagining of a Chinese enclave
- Epilogue: Deaths of authors, lives of texts
- Appendix
- Translation of Nguyen Cu Trinh's Sai Vai (The monk and the nun), 1750.