The Tay So'n Uprising - Society And Rebellion in Eighteenth-century Vietnam

Informationen zum Autor George Dutton is a professor in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Klappentext The Tay San uprising (1771-1802) was a cataclysmic event that profoundly altered the eighteenth-century Vietnamese political and social landscape. This groundbreaking book offers a new look at an important and controversial era. George Dutton follows three brothers from the hamlet of Tay Son as they led a heterogeneous military force that ousted ruling families in both halves of the divided Vietnamese territories and eventually toppled the 350-year-old Le dynasty. Supplementing Vietnamese primary sources with extensive use of archival European missionary accounts, he explores the dynamics of an event that affected every region of the country and every level of society. Tracing the manner in which the Tay Son leaders transformed an inchoate uprising into a new political regime, Dutton challenges common depictions of the Tay Son brothers as visionaries or revolutionaries. Instead, he reveals them as political opportunists whose worldview remained constrained by their provincial origins and the exigencies of ongoing warfare and political struggles.The Tay So'n uprising (1771-1802) was a cataclysmic event that profoundly altered the eighteenth-century Vietnamese political and social landscape. Tracing the manner in which the Tay So'n leaders transformed an inchoate uprising into a new political regime, this book explores the dynamics of an event that affected every region of the country.

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• Authors: George Dutton, George E Dutton, George E. Dutton, George Edson Dutton
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2006
• EAN: 9780824829841
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-2984-1
• No. of pages: 293
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean; Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory; Southeast Asia: Politics, Mean; Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning and Memory; Southeast Asia--Politics, Mean
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous