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Opusculum de Sectis Apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses / A Study of Religion in China and North Vietnam in the Eighteenth Century: A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and the Tonkinese (Studies on Southeast Asia, No. 33)
Father Adriano Di St. Thecla
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Description for Opusculum de Sectis Apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses / A Study of Religion in China and North Vietnam in the Eighteenth Century: A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and the Tonkinese (Studies on Southeast Asia, No. 33)
Paperback. Translator(s): Dror, Olga. Num Pages: 239 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRE; HRK; HRKN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 799.
This 1750 text, written by a Catholic missionary in Tonkin, is the earliest known systematic first-hand account of Vietnamese religious practice, including chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, the worship of spirits, magicians, fortune tellers and diviners, and Christianity in the region. It was recently discovered in a Paris archive and will be of interest to a broad array of scholars. Includes a facsimile of the original manuscript.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Southeast Asia Program Publications
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780877277323
SKU
V9780877277323
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99-1
About Father Adriano Di St. Thecla
Keith W. Taylor is Professor of Vietnamese Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of A History of the Vietnamese.
Reviews for Opusculum de Sectis Apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses / A Study of Religion in China and North Vietnam in the Eighteenth Century: A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and the Tonkinese (Studies on Southeast Asia, No. 33)
Challenging the contemporary understanding of Vietnamese history and culture... this work makes it clearer than ever that there was no definite boundary between court culture and rural culture, and between 'Chinese' and 'Vietnamese.' It is even more admirable that such significant findings are carefully annotated and cross-referenced with an enormous body of sources. This is a first-class piece which marks ... Read more