Chinese southern diaspora studies_Issue 9 (for Volume 9)
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9
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9
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2021
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1834-609X
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Introduction [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 9, 2021]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2021) Tana, Li; Shaofei, Ye; Tana, Li; Shaofei, Ye
編者的話 [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 9, 2021]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2021) 李塔娜; 葉少飛; Tana, Li; Shaofei, Ye
A Chinese Businessman in 1860s French Cochinchina: The Making of Wang Tai (1828-1900)
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2021) Cooke, Nola; Tana, Li; Shaofei, Ye
The Ngô Thesis and Minh Hương Evolution: The View from the Sea
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2021) Wheeler, Charles; Tana, Li; Shaofei, Ye
John Whitmore’s recent study of Ngô (Chinese) communities in fifteenth-century Dai
Viet has broad implications for the study of premodern Vietnamese history. While he
initially defines Ngô as Chinese, he in fact describes a community developed from a longterm
“fusion” of coastal elements that included seafaring Min-speakers but were not
limited to them. Whitmore’s interest appears to be focused on this community’s role in
the basic montane–littoral tension he perceives in Đại Việt political history. However, he
ends this seminal work by pointing to a “new Ngô community” in Đại Việt history, the
Minh Hương, developed from the same “coastal fusion.” This offers more than a
comparison of two analogous historical communities; it opens the door to a new way of
thinking about the function of “Chinese” in Vietnamese history. In this article, I take up
Whitmore’s challenge and use his model, based on a long-term process of coastal fusion,
to develop a preliminary long-term history of the Minh Hương. Emphasizing early
modern developments contextualized within the longer stream of Vietnamese history, it
shows that the pattern of Minh Hương evolution not only resembles that of the earlier
Ngô but also suggests Whitmore correctly perceived a “Ngô” pattern of coastal cultural
fusion that suggest a radically different vision of premodern history.
Chinese Character Stelae of The Chinese In Hanoi
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2021) Thuân, Đinh Khắc; Tana, Li; Shaofei, Ye
The H©ng B??m and L©n ©ng Streets in Ho©n Ki?m district of modern Hanoi, now only a corner in Hanoi's
old town centre, were originally a Chinese living and trading quarter. Here existed numerous Chinese guild
halls and temples. Now that these relics are managed and used by the local people in their everyday lives,
many changes have been made to the buildings that create risks of damage. Especially concerning is the
loss of stelae which are important both for the understanding of the history of Chinese communities here
and of Th?ng Long/Hanoi itself. No one has yet paid much serious attention to these stelae, however, nor
have they been studied by scholars. For example, in the most recently published work, A Collection of Han
Nom (Chinese-Vietnamese) scripts, done to celebrate Hanoi©s thousand year history, no stele made by the
Chinese communities in Hanoi was included.
This article outlines the current situation of Chinese stelae in Hanoi, and introduces the inscriptions carved
on them, in the hope of better understanding the history of Chinese communities there, which is an
important part of the history of Hanoi itself.
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