Regionalising National History

In contrast to their emphasis on political and agricultural history, the twentieth-century Vietnamese historians have paid surprisingly little attention to maritime history despite the fact that Vietnam is a maritime country with over 3000 kilometres of shoreline along the Indo-Chinese coast. More critical is their tendency either to refuse or downplay the role of maritime trade in overall economic development and state-building in pre-modern Vietnam, even though contemporary non-Vietnamese scholars tend to take the opposite view. Applying a regional perspective, this article underlines the process by which Vietnam became integrated into the East Asian maritime trade during ancient and medieval times.

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