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Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar's Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam By Cai Tinglan. Translated with Introduction by Kathlene Baldanza and Zhao Lu. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. 177 pp. $105 (cloth) $32 (paper)

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Miscellany of the South Seas: A Chinese Scholar's Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam By Cai Tinglan. Translated with Introduction by Kathlene Baldanza and Zhao Lu. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. 177 pp. $105 (cloth) $32 (paper)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2023

Melissa Macauley
Melissa Macauley*
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Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2024 , pp. 185 - 188
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3 The translators refer to Macauley, Melissa, Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)Google Scholar.

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8 Woodside (Vietnam and the Chinese Model, 4) asserted that the massacre reflected Tay Son rebel opposition to the “plural society” developing in Vietnam at this time. More recently, Choi Byung Wook has claimed that it was the result of the military involvement of Chinese settlers in the political struggles of the day. See his Southern Vietnam Under the Reign of Minh Mang (1820-1841) (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Publications, 2004), 36–37Google Scholar.