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Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Chinese Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781684172788
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Vietnam -- Politics and government; China -- Politics and government -- 19th century;

Why did the Vietnamese accept certain Chinese institutions and yet explicitly reject others? How did Vietnamese cultural borrowings from China alter the dynamics of traditional relations between Vietnam, Siam, Laos, and Cambodia? How did Vietnam's smaller Southeast Asian environment modify and distort classical East Asian institutions?Woodside has answered these questions in this well-received political and cultural study. This first real comparison of the civil governments of two traditional East Asian societies on an institution-by-institution basis is now reissued with a new preface.