A History of the Vietnamese

Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Prologue
	Vantage
	Language
	Apologia
	Summary
	Pronunciation and spelling of Vietnamese names
1 The provincial era
	The empire comes south
	The Han conquest
	Shi Xie and the rise of the great families
	Giao Province
	Imperial weakness and local heroes
	The Protectorate of An Nam
	The Nan Zhao War
	A lesser empire
2 The Ly dynasty
	Hoa Lu
	Ly Cong Uan
	Ly Phat Ma
	Ly Nhat Ton
	Outbreak of the Ly-Song War
	The Ly-Song War
	Ly Can Duc
	Do Anh Vu and To Hien Thanh
	Collapse of the Ly dynasty
3 The Tran dynasty
	Tran Thu Do
	Early Tran literati
	Solidarity among the princes
	Poetry and language
	Mobilizing resources: eunuchs, slaves, dikes, and war
	The First Mongol War
	Living with danger
	The Mongols return
	Farewell to tattoos
	Farewell to the princes
	Tran Manh and the late Tran literati
	Agrarian unrest, Tran Hao, and Nhat Le
	Tran Phu
	Le Quy Ly
4 The Le dynasty
	Destruction of the Tran aristocracy
	Ho Quy Ly
	A historic watershed
	Ming Giao Chi
	The abandonment of Ming Giao Chi
	Le Loi
	A new dynastic structure
	Great lords and Le Nguyen Long
	Great lords and Le Bang Co
	Le Tu Thanh as teacher
	Le Tu Thanh as ruler
	Expanding the borders
5 The beginning of inter-regional warfare
	Return of adolescent kings and great lords
	Rise of the east
	The early Mac dynasty
	Outbreak of the Seventy Years War
	The Le restoration
6 The Fifty Years War
	The north
	The south
	War begins
	Dao Duy Tu and southern mobilization
	Trinh mobilization
	Christianity
	Maritime trade
	New leaders in an old war
	The far south
	Nguyen Phuc Tan, Trinh Tac, and the Nghe An campaign
	The last battle
7 The south and the north diverge
	Relations with Cambodia
	Politics and government in the south
	Nguyen Phuc Khoat, the first southern king
	Misgovernment in the north
	Trinh Cuong’s reforms
	Trinh Giang and the collapse of government
	Trinh Doanh and the age of rebellion
	Another cycle of Trinh misgovernment
8 The Thirty Years War
	The rise of Qui Nhon
	Resurgence of the Nguyen Phuc and decline of the Trinh
	Tay Son ascendancy and division
	Nguyen Hue, the Quang Trung emperor
	Nguyen Phuc Anh at Saigon
	From Saigon to Dien Khanh
	From Dien Khanh to Binh Dinh
	A new peace
9 The Nguyen dynasty
	Between north and south
	Literature
	Siam and the question of Khmer vassalage
	Dynastic discipline
	Relations with the Khmer vassal
	Minh Mang’s centralizing policies
	Background to Le Van Khoi’s rebellion
	Le Van Khoi’s rebellion and war with Siam
	Thieu Tri and the French navy
	Tu Due’s accession and incapacity to rule
	The threat from Europe
10 The French conquest
	The Treaty of Saigon, 1862
	Formation of French Cochinchina
	The Treaty of 1874
	Post-treaty disorder in the north
	French administration in rural Cochinchina
	Law and language in Cochinchina
	The Sino-French War
	The French take Hue
	Formation of French Indochina
11 Franco-Vietnamese colonial relations
	Intellectuals respond to the colonial regime
	The 1908 disturbances and their sequel
	Domestic ferment with Europe at war
	The beginning of Saigon politics
	Cochinchina and the new generation
	The new generation in Tonkin and Annam
	The soviets in Nghe-Tinh and western Cochinchina
	The French resort to the monarchy
	Vietnamese politics and the Popular Front
	New cultural patterns
12 Indochina at war
	The Japanese arrive
	Formation of the Viet Minh
	The August Revolution
	Return of the French
	Outbreak of a new war
	A Franco-Vietnamese government
	Radicalization of the Viet Minh
	The beginning of United States involvement
	The peace settlement
13 From two countries to one
	Saigon
	Hanoi
	Start of a new war
	Ngo Dinh Diem between communists and Americans
	The Kennedy escalation
	Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
	Political turmoil in Saigon
	Formation of the Second Republic of Vietnam
	The communist offensive of 1968
	US redeployment out of Vietnam
	The Second Republic
	The victory of Hanoi
	The Sino-Khmer War and renovation
Retrospective
Bibliographic essay
	Materials in Asian languages
	Suggested readings in English and French organized by chapters
Figures
	1. Tran dynasty genealogy
	2. Le dynasty genealogy (15th & 16th c.)
	3. Le dynasty genealogy (17th & 18th c.)
	4. Mac dynasty genealogy
	5. The Trinh rulers
	6. Nguyen dynasty genealogy
Tables
	1. Hoa Lu king list
	2. Ly dynasty king list
	3. Tran dynasty king list
	4. Le dynasty king list (15th & 16th c.)
	5. Le dynasty king list (17th & 18th c.)
	6. Mac dynasty king list
	7. List of Nguyen Phuc rulers
	8. Descendents of Nguyen Phuc Khoat who were crown princes or kings
	9. Nguyen dynasty king list
Maps
	1. The provincial era
	2. The Ly dynasty - map 1
	3. The Ly dynasty - map 2
	4. The Tran dynasty - map 1
	5. The Tran dynasty - map 2
	6. The Le dynasty - map 1
	7. The Le dynasty - map 2
	8. The Mac dynasty
	9. The Trinh domain
	10. The Trinh-Nguyen border
	11. The northern Nguyen Phuc domain
	12. The southern Nguyen Phuc domain
	13. The Nguyen dynasty: south
	14. The Nguyen dynasty: north
	15. The French conquest: south
	16. The French conquest: north
	17. Southern Vietnamese French Indochina
	18. Northern Vietnamese French Indochina
	19. The wartime Sino-Indochina border, 1940s
	20. Recent Vietnam: north
	21. Recent Vietnam: south
Index