Nguyen Cochinchina: Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 9781501732577

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Map 1
INTRODUCTION
1. The New Land
2. Nguyên Rule
3. The Foreign Merchants
4. Money and Trade
5. Life in ÐÁng Trong: A New Way of Being Vietnamese
Map 2
6. Vietnamese and Uplanders
7. The Táy SÔn
Conclusion: The End of Ðàng Trong and of an Old Order?
Figures 1 and 2, Vietnamese Population Growth
Appendix 1: Population Change in Vietnam from the Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Appendix 2: On the "King" of Cochinchina, the Names "Quinam" and "Guang Nan Guo"
Appendix 3: Conflicts between the Dutch and the Nguyèn
Appendix 4: On Tutenague and Silver Used in Ðàng Trong
Chronological List of Nguyên Rulers
Bibliography

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NGUYEN CocHINCHINA SOUTHERN VIETNAM IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

Li Tana

NGUYEN COCHINCHINA SouTHERN VIETNAM IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

SoUTHEAST ASIA PROCRAM PUBLICATIONS

Southeast Asia Program Cornell University Ithaca, New York 1998

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Editorial Board Benedict R. O'G Anderson Tamara Loos Stanley O'Connor K. W. Taylor Andrew Willford

Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications 640 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14850-3857 Studies on Southeast Asia No. 23

© 1998 Cornell Southeast Asia Program. Second printing, 2002.

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Cover art: Seventeenth-century map of a portion of Dang Trong, reprinted with permission from Toyo Bunko.

CONTENTS Acknowledgments

7

Map1

9

Introduction

11

1. The New Land

18

2. Nguy~n Rule

37

3. The Foreign Merchants

59

4. Money and Trade

78

5. Life in Dimg Trong: A New Way of Being Vietnamese

99

Map2

117

6. Vietnamese and Uplanders

119

7. The Tay Sng dfmg cu dan H(>i An" (The first step in understanding the process of establishing the residential community of Hoi An) (roneo, 1988, in possession of author), p. 33. 26 Nineteen of twenty-two first-rank officials of the Nguy@n originally came from T6ng SO'n county, in Thanh Hoa. They included top generals like Nguy@n Hftu D~t, Nguy~n Cftu Ki~u, and Tru