Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam

by Shawn Frederick McHale and Shawn F. McHale

In this ambitious and path-breaking book, Shawn McHale challenges long held views that define modern Vietnamese history in terms of anticolonial nationalism and revolution. McHale argues instead for a historiography that does not overstress either the role of politics in general or Communism in particular. Using a wide range of sources from Vietnam, France, and the United States, many of them previously unexploited, he shows how the use of printed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082483304X
• ISBN13: 9780824833046
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"