Book contents
- A Maritime Vietnam
- Dedication
- A Maritime Vietnam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Maritime Formations
- 2 Aromatics, Buddhism, and the Making of a South Seas Emporium
- 3 ‘THE Harbour and THE Path of All Countries’
- 4 Maritime Resurgence and the Rise of Dai Viet
- 5 Winds of Trade from the Middle East
- 6 Muslim Trade and the Conquest of the Coast
- 7 Silks and Society
- 8 Seventeenth-Century Dang Trong
- 9 The Rise and Fall of the Eighteenth-Century Water Frontier
- 10 Ships and the Problem of Political Integration
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Seventeenth-Century Dang Trong
A Maritime Entity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2024
- A Maritime Vietnam
- Dedication
- A Maritime Vietnam
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Maritime Formations
- 2 Aromatics, Buddhism, and the Making of a South Seas Emporium
- 3 ‘THE Harbour and THE Path of All Countries’
- 4 Maritime Resurgence and the Rise of Dai Viet
- 5 Winds of Trade from the Middle East
- 6 Muslim Trade and the Conquest of the Coast
- 7 Silks and Society
- 8 Seventeenth-Century Dang Trong
- 9 The Rise and Fall of the Eighteenth-Century Water Frontier
- 10 Ships and the Problem of Political Integration
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Nguyen Cochinchina was a maritime power. Its Archipelago-like landscape facing the South China Sea gave it a special character and made it stand out from all the Vietnamese dynasties. The synergy of its economy and the hybridity of its population and culture should all be seen against this background. Overseas trade defined seventeenth-century Cochinchina and regulated its labour and cash crop production on the coast and penetrated all sectors of local production and consumptions and accelerated its interactions with the uplanders. The Nguyen Cochinchina’s history challenges the conventional version of a single Vietnamese past, and the narrow strip of land between the mountains and the sea encouraged people to seek a much freer way of being Vietnamese. In such a way, it was little surprise that Cochinchina became the historical engine of change and pulled the national Vietnamese centre of gravity – whether seen in political, economic, or even cultural terms – southwards from the seventeenth century.
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- A Maritime VietnamFrom Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century, pp. 228 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024