Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Nguyen and Ching Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century (East Asia) - Tapa dura

Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Nguyen and Ching Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. 358 pages map : 24 cm. Contents: 1. Vietnam and China: Acculturation's apparitions and certain realities behind them The Vietnamese monarchy and its two traditions Vietnamese historiography and Vietnamese interaction with China Southeast Asian features in Vietnamese society and culture Familial institutions and the Sino-Vietnamese social order Linguistic and literary bridge-building between China and Vietnam The hazards of the Vietnamese throne 2. Nguyen and Ch'ing central civil administration: power structures and communications processes Imperial power in bureaucratic confucian society An overview of Sino-Vietnamese central civil administration Nguyen variations within the basic administrative plan borrowed from China The imperial secretariats and the flow of information from village to throne The Nguyen privy council and Minh-mang's work of centralization Ratings in the Vietnamese and Chinese bureaucracies 3. The borrowing ideals of court bureaucrats and the practical problems of provincial administrators Methods and factors in the diffusion of Chinese books and ideas The borrowing of an imperial Milieu: the rise of Hue Regionalism and the breakdown of administrative homogeneity The Chinese provincial system's transposition to Vietnam "The laws of the emperor are less than the customs of the village" Chinese methods of rural control: the court confronts provincial officialdom 4. Education and examinations in Nguyen Vietnam An overview of the Vietnamese examination system in the 1800's Students, teachers, and texts The bureaucratic organization of the examination system The contents of the examinations and their purpose Regional vicissitudes of the Vietnamese examination system The nature of Vietnamese Confucianism and the alienation of Cao Ba Quat 5. The emperor, the bureaucracy, and the world outside Vietnam The Vietnamese court's creation of a tributary system Model versus realities: The Nguyen duel with Siam over Cambodia and Laos The Nguyen court's approaches to foreign trade The Vietnamese reaction to the opium war The invasion of western culture. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2eh220

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