Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam
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Edition
Reprint.
Publisher
ISBN
8121512169, 9788121512169
Length
xii+256p., Maps; Illustrations; 25cm.
Subjects
In this ambitious and pathbreaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printed matter soared ...
