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Transporting Rice in the New Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2024
This chapter considers why among the three large mainland Southeast Asian countries – Burma, Siam, and Vietnam – that Vietnam was not half as integrated as the other two. Did its lacking a dominant, integrative river system like that of the Irrawaddy play a role? Yet Vietnam has an advantage that the other two did not enjoy, a 3,260-kilometre-long coastline. Why did not this feature failed to integrate the nineteenth-century Dai Nam? The Nguyen imperial rice shipping seemed to aim at such a role, but in the end, it improvised the north, the main source for sustaining the Nguyen bureaucratic machine and the capital area Hue.
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