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"Texts and Bodies": Refashioning the Disturbing Past of Tran Vietnam (1225-1400)

In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
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Shawn McHale
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Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 1999
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Abstract

Vietnam is often seen to have undergone a fundamental shift in the Tran period (1225-1400) from an unfamiliar, highly Buddhist country to a highly Confucian one. Using a key source for Tran history, the Dai Viêt su ky toan thu, this essay challenges this common view. First, it focuses not on post-Tran Confucian representations of the past but on Tran bodily practices. Second, it argues that modern Vietnamese historians in particular, utilizing texts, ideologies, and structural transformations, have slighted the history of bodies and practices and Confucianized the Vietnamese past.

Title:
"Texts and Bodies": Refashioning the Disturbing Past of Tran Vietnam (1225-1400)
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/1568520991201704
Language:
English
Pages:
494–518
In:
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
In:
Volume 42: Issue 4
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1568-5209
Print ISSN:
0022-4995
Subjects:
General, Asian Studies, General, Ancient Near East and Egypt

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