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Stretching the Sinitic Interpretation of Vietnamese History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2025
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Viet Nam’s indigenous environment has long played a key role in its history and culture. My new book, Việt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present, begins with a quotation: “‘Mountains are like the bones of the earth. Water is its blood,’ wrote a Vietnamese geographer in 1820. Lowland Viet Nam is aquatic.”1
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1 Ben Kiernan, “Việt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present” Asia Pacific Journal, May 15, 2017, Vol. 15, Issue 10, No. 2
2 Ben Kiernan, Việt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present, New York, Oxford University Press, 2017, 1, 13.
3 Huỳnh Sanh Thông, “Live by Water, Die for Water (Sống vì nước, chết vì nước): Metaphors of Vietnamese Culture and History,” Vietnam Review 1 (Autumn-Winter 1996), at 121, 152-53.
4 Huỳnh Sanh Thông, “The Vietnamese Worldview: Water, Water Everywhere,” Vietnam Review 2 (Spring-Summer 1997), 16.
5 O.W. Wolters, “On Telling a Story of Vietnam in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,” in Wolters, Early Southeast Asia, ed. Craig Reynolds, Ithaca, 2008, 227, 230.
6 See here.
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8 Main blog; May 10th post; Reply (accessed June 23, 2017)
9 Kiernan, Việt Nam, 40-41, quoting Huỳnh Sanh Thông, “Live by Water, Die for Water,” 139.
10 See here (accessed Oct. 26, 2017).
11 Kiernan, Việt Nam, 43, and sources cited.
12 Huỳnh Sanh Thông, “Live by Water, Die for Water,” 139.
13 See here (accessed Sept. 14, 2017).
14 See here (accessed Sept. 16, 2017).
15 See here (accessed Sept. 14, 2017).
16 See here (accessed Sept. 16, 2017).
17 See here (accessed Sept. 16, 2017).
18 See here (accessed Sept. 16, 2017).
19 Trịnh Hoài Đức, Gia Định Thành Thông Chí, Lý Việt Dũng, Huỳnh Văn Tới (eds.), Biên Hòa, Nhà xuất bản Tổng hợp Đồng Nai, 2005, p. 16 from the back of the book. See here.
20 “Going Backwards: An Addendum,” (accessed Sept. 16, 2017).
21 Liam Kelley, “Lost in Translation,” Mekong Review, Issue 9, November 2017.
22 Kelley, “Lost in Translation.”