Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom - The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina, 1850-1960

Informationen zum Autor Mai Na M. Lee is an associate professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She was born in Laos and came to the United States when she was a teenager. She was the first Hmong in the United States to earn a PhD in history. Klappentext Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the "Secret War” in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, this study reveals how the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, and illuminates their political choices over the course of a century in a highly contested region of Asia. Zusammenfassung Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the “Secret War” in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, this study reveals how the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, and illuminates their political choices over the course of a century in a highly contested region of Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Mai Na Lee, Mai Na M Lee, Mai Na M. Lee
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9780299298845
• ISBN: 978-0-299-29884-5
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: New Perspectives in Se Asian S; New Perspectives in Se Asian S
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous