Birth of Vietnam

Tables
Maps
Preface
Introduction

I. Lac Lords
The Earliest Traditions
Lac Society
Prologue to a New Age
King" An Duong
Chao T'o
The Coming of Han
The Trung Sisters
Yueh and Viet

2. The Han-Viet Era
Ma Yuan's Legacy
The Great Han- Viet Families
The Second-Century Rebellions
Shih Hsieh
Buddhism

3. Regionalism and the Six Dynasties
The Han- Viet Legacy
Wu
Chin Intervention
T'ao Huang
Chin Comes South
Chin and Lin-i
The Do Family
Sung and Lin-i
The Empire Fades
Imperial Administration and Regional Leadership

4· Local Rule in the Sixth Century
The Liang System Penetrates the South
Ly Bi
The View from Chinese Records: 548-89
Trieu Quang Phuc
Ly Phat Tu and Vinltaruci
Sui Comes South
The Sixth Century in Perspective

5· The Protectorate of An-nam
Ch'iu Ho
The Organization of the Protectorate
Census Records
Pilgrims and Merchants
Exiles
The Rebellion of 687
Mai Thuc Loan
The Mid- T' ang Crisis
Phung Hung
T'ang-Viet Society, Economy, and Culture

6. The Tang-Viet Confrontation
The T' ang Revival
Duong Thanh and Vo Ngon Thong
Confrontation
The Nan-chao War

7· Independence
Reconstruction
The End ofT' ang
Khuc Thua My
Duong Dinh Nghe
Ngo Quyen
Duong Tam Kha and the Ngo Brothers
Dinh Bo Linh

Conclusion