McHale, Shawn Frederick

Print and power : Confucianism, communism, and Buddhism in the making of modern Vietnam / Shawn Frederick McHale - Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2004 - xii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Southeast Asia: politics, meaning, memory .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-250) and index

Transforming print culture and the public sphere -- The colonial state and repression of the printed word -- Confucianism and Vietnamese culture -- Printing revolution, spreading communism -- From popular visions of paradise to the Buddhist revival

0824826558 (hbk.) RM363.49


Buddhism--History--Vietnam--20th century
Confucianism--History--Vietnam--20th century
Communism--History--Vietnam
Printing--History--Vietnam--20th century


Vietnam--History--Historiography--1858-1945