List of Figures ................................................ vi
Acknowledgments ............................................... vii
List of Abbreviations ........................................... x
Introduction .................................................... l
1. History, Allegory, and the Production of Vietnamese
National Identity ........................................... 20
2. A Bishop and a Prince ....................................... 37
3. Minh Mạng, the West, and the Xenophobia Allegory ............ 62
4. Two Poets and the Tây Sơn Dynasty ........................... 84
5. Allegories of Unification and the US-Vietnam War ........... 109
6. In the Same Sampan: The Allegory of Bùi Viện ............... 134
Conclusion .................................................... 151
Notes ......................................................... 157
Bibliography .................................................. 189
Index ......................................................... 207
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