Alexander Woodside is Professor of Chinese and Southeast Asian History at the University of British Columbia.
The first serious work of American scholarship on Vietnam in the
early nineteenth century… A major event in the development of
Vietnamese studies in the U.S.
*Political Science Review*
A penetrating look at the institutions, traditions, and attitudes
that governed nineteenth-century Vietnam and that determine much of
what is happening today… A classical study in the modification of
the Chinese cultural pattern in a Southeast Asian environment… A
work absolutely indispensable for insight into the evolution of
Vietnam’s political society and style.
*American Historical Review*
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