About the Author

Alexander Woodside is Professor of Chinese and Southeast Asian History at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews

The first serious work of American scholarship on Vietnam in the early nineteenth century… A major event in the development of Vietnamese studies in the U.S.
*Political Science Review*

A penetrating look at the institutions, traditions, and attitudes that governed nineteenth-century Vietnam and that determine much of what is happening today… A classical study in the modification of the Chinese cultural pattern in a Southeast Asian environment… A work absolutely indispensable for insight into the evolution of Vietnam’s political society and style.
*American Historical Review*