Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in Early Nineteenth-century Vietnam - Rilegato

Ramsay, Jacob

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ISBN 10: 0804756511 ISBN 13: 9780804756518

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2008

Riassunto

This book examines the rise of anti-Catholic hostility in early nineteenth-century Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty. French missionaries have long been blamed for the destabilization of dynastic Vietnam and the anti-Catholic violence that preceded the French invasion in 1858. But the focus on the political conflict leading to the Nguyen court's antipathy to the church overlooks the significance of Catholicism as a popular religion. Focusing on, but not limited to, the Cochinchina region, this study explores grassroots experiences of the religion and the conflict between the Nguyen court and missionaries of the Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP). To do so, it draws on the correspondence of French missionaries and Vietnamese priests from the MEP archive, and on vernacular Vietnamese translations of the Nguyen dynastic record, to provide a new perspective on Nguyen Vietnam from the 1820s to the 1860s.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jacob Ramsay is a postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the University of Singapore. He has published articles in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and the Asian Studies Review.

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Book by Ramsay Jacob

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0804756511
• ISBN 13: 9780804756518
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 212