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A View from the Sea: Perspectives on the Northern and Central Vietnamese Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2006

Li Tana
Li Tana
Affiliation:
Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies at the Australian National University; her e-mail contact is [email protected]
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Abstract

This article challenges the perceived image of ‘traditional’ Vietnam by viewing the polity's early history from the sea. A trading zone existed in the Gulf of Tonkin area, stretching to Hainan Island and northern Champa by sea, and overland to Yunnan and Laos. Commerce and interactions of peoples in this area played a crucial part in state formation for Vietnam.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 83 - 102
Copyright
2006 The National University of Singapore

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Footnotes

This article has benefited from two international workshops: Southeast Asia in Maritime Perspective: The Sea as Centre, Center for Asian Studies, University of California at Irvine, 28–29 Feb. 2004; and Maritime Space in Traditional Chinese Sources, Institute of Sinology, Munich, 25–26 Feb. 2005. My thanks to Charles Wheeler and Roderich Ptak for providing me chances to present my rough ideas at the workshops for valuable feedback. Part of this article was published in Japanese in the journal Toyoshi Kenkyu, 63, 3 (2004); my thanks to Akinori Nakasuna for his translation and his careful checking of the original sources. Thanks also to Nola Cooke, Victor Lieberman, Bruce Lockhart and David Marr for their help and comments.