Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. CONTENTS 3
3. Preface 5
4. Introduction 9
5. The Legend of Ông Dóng from the Text to the Field 13
6. The Vietnamization of the Cham Deity Pô Nagar 42
7. Inscriptions from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries Recently Discovered in Việt Nam 51
8. Voices Within and Without: Tales from Stone and Paper about Đỗ Anh Vũ (1114–1159) 59
9. Rethinking Vietnamese Buddhist History: Is the Thiền Uyển Tap Arih a 'Transmission of the Lamp" Text? 81
10. Chung-hsing and Cheng-t'ung in Texts of and on Sixteenth-Century Việt Nam 116
11. Curious Relations: Jesuit Perceptions of the Vietnamese 137
12. Central Vietnam's Trading World in the Eighteenth Century as Seen in Lê Quý Đôn's "Frontier Chronicles" 157
13. Printing and Power: Vietnamese Debates over Women's Place in Society, 1918-1934 173
14. "Elegant Females" Re-Encountered: From Tokai Sanshi's Kajin No Kigû to Phan Chau Trinh js Giai Nhân Kỳ Ngộ Diên Ca 195
15. What is to be Done? Hô Chi Minh's Đuòng Kách Mễnh' 207
16. Hô Chi Minh's Independence Declaration 221
17. The History of Resistance and the Resistance to History in Post- Colonial Constructions of the Past 232
18. Telling Life: An Approach to the Official Biography of Tôn Đuc Thắng 246
19. Monumental Ambiguity: The State Commemoration of Hô Chi Minh 272