Southern Vietnam Under the Reign of Minh Mang (1820�1841)

Choi Byung Wook
Cornell University Press
9780877271383
0-87727-138-0

This study of nineteenth-century Vietnam focuses on interactions between the Vietnamese king, Minh Mang, and the heterogeneous southern region of the country, which he sought to bring more firmly under.

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state control through a series of polices intended to "Vietnamize" the populace and unite north and south.