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Article: The Tay So'n uprising: Society and rebellion in eighteenth-century Vietnam.(Book review)
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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- February 1, 2008
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The Tay So'n uprising: Society and rebellion in eighteenth-century Vietnam
By GEORGE DUTTON
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006. Pp. 293. Maps, Illustrations, Notes,
Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463408000143
This book gives us an unprecedented look into one of the most significant episodes in early modern Southeast Asian history. By delving deep into Nguyen court records, contemporary accounts, and missionary accounts of the Tay So'n uprising (1771-1802), George Dutton gives us a subtle and sophisticated thematic history of this critical period. He argues that modern Vietnamese historians have erred in simplistically ...