The Cham of Vietnam

The Cham of Vietnam
Author: Tran Ky Phuong
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 997169459X

The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. Written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, art history, and linguistics, these essays reassess the ways that the Cham have been studied.

The Champa Kingdom

The Champa Kingdom
Author: Georges Maspero
Publisher: White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Cham Sculpture of the Tourane Museum, Da Nang, Vietnam

Cham Sculpture of the Tourane Museum, Da Nang, Vietnam
Author: Henri Parmentier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2001
Genre: Art, Cham
ISBN:

The first report in this book offers an overview of Cham art with sixty-five photographs and an introductory text by the eminent French archaeologist Henri Parmentier. Originally published in 1922, this book remains one of the best introductions to the treasures preserved in the Tourane Museum in Danang. It features splendid photographs of Cham art discovered in the main areas of this long lost culture-Mi Son, Dong Duong, Khuong My, and Tra Kieu. The development of Cham art is sketched against the background of Annamese migration pushing the Cham people and their kingdom ever further south. The second part consists of two research reports. The first one by Paul Mus summarizes what is known about the religious practices of the Cham people and is based on artifacts and translated inscriptions. The author also reviews evidence from contemporary Cham culture. The religious inheritance of Champa is related to Vedic, Indian, Chinese, and Annamese forms of worship, and the significance of the Champa king as intermediary between the gods and the soil is also discussed. The second report by Étienne Aymonier contains an overview, dated 1884-85, of the religious practices, ceremonies related to veneration of divinities, marriage, birth, priesthood, death, agriculture, collection of eagle wood, and other customs of both groups of Chams, Muslims and non-Muslims, in Vietnam, and Chams in Cambodia.

Champa and the Archaeology of Mỹ Sơn (Vietnam)

Champa and the Archaeology of Mỹ Sơn (Vietnam)
Author: Andrew David Hardy
Publisher: NUS Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789971694517

The kings of ancient Champa, a civilization located in the central region of today's Vietnam, started building sacred temples in a circular valley more than 1500 years ago. The monuments, now known by the Vietnamese name M? So'n, were discovered by nineteenth-century colonial soldiers and first studied by the French architect Henri Parmentier. Bombed during the Vietnam War, the ruins of the brick towers, decorated with exquisite carvings and sculptures, were designated as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 1999. An Italian team has worked at the site for the last ten years, doing archaeological research and restoration work in cooperation with Vietnamese specialists. This book is the first published volume based on their efforts. The opening section consists of historical, anthropological and architectural studies of the civilization of Champa. The remainder of the book presents an unusually intimate and extensively illustrated portrait of the archaeologists' research and restoration work at M? So'n. While this book is important for specialists and students of the history and archaeology of Champa and Southeast Asia, it also tells a fascinating story that will appeal to general readers and visitors to this exceptional archaeological site.

Southern Vietnam under the Reign of Minh Mang (1820–1841)

Southern Vietnam under the Reign of Minh Mang (1820–1841)
Author: Choi Byung Wook
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501719521

This study of nineteenth-century Vietnam focuses on interactions between the Vietnamese king, Minh Mang, and the heterogeneous southern region of the country, which he sought to bring more firmly under state control through a series of polices intended to "Vietnamize" the populace and unite north and south.

Vibrancy in Stone

Vibrancy in Stone
Author: Bảo Tàng điêu khắc Chàm Đà Nẵng
Publisher:
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018
Genre: Cham (Southeast Asian people)
ISBN: 9786167339993

This catalogue assembles sumptuous photographs of the world's leading collection of Cham sculpture, along with the most recent insights of Vietnamese and international scholars. The Champa culture thrived in magnificent temples, sculpture, dance and music along the central and southern coast of today's Vietnam from the 5th to the 15th centuries. A focused exploration here uncovers this brilliant yet almost lost culture to newcomers as well as experts. To mark its centenary, the Da Nang Museum of Cham Sculpture has been expanded and refurbished to appropriately house the world's leading collection of Cham art. The museum staff, supported by the Southeast Asia art programme of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SoaS), London University, funded by the Alphawood Foundation, worked in concert with researchers from around the world to present these masterpieces.

Vietnam

Vietnam
Author: Christopher Goscha
Publisher:
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465094368

The definitive history of modern Vietnam and its diverse and divided past

Essays into Vietnamese Pasts

Essays into Vietnamese Pasts
Author: K. W. Taylor
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501718991

Essays that demonstrate ways to "read" the pasts of Vietnam through detailed analyses of its art, chronicles, legends, documents, and monuments. The book's many voices undermine the idea of a single Vietnamese past. All the essays, while varied, are connected by their common concerns with language and text.