Poetic Transformations : Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects on the Mekong Plains / Claudine Ang

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ang, Claudine, author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 419.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 419

Language:

English

Vietnamese

Subjects (All):

Mạc, Thiên Tích, 1706-1780.

Mạc, Thiên Tích.

Nguyễn, Cư Trinh, 1716-1767.

Nguyễn, Cư Trinh.

Politics and literature--Mekong River Watershed--History--18th century.

Politics and literature.

Mekong River Watershed--History--18th century.

Mekong River Watershed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Other Title:

Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects on the Mekong Plains

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.

Summary:

"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 of the frontier region"--Provided by publisher.

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: geo-political realities on the Delta

A Vietnamese re-imagining 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.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis, issued under the title: Statecraft on the margins : drama, poetry, and the civilizing mission in eighteenth-century southern Vietnam ( Ph. D.--Cornell University, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index.

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ISBN:

9781684175970

1684175976

OCLC:

1127306182

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684175970 DOI