In search of moral authority [electronic resource] : the discourse on poverty, poor relief, and charity in French colonial Vietnam / Van Nguyen-Marshall.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: BookBookPublication details: New York : P. Lang, c2008.Description: x, 180 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.509597/09041 22
LOC classification:
  • HC444.Z9 P6665 2008eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Poverty and poor relief in nineteenth-century Vietnam -- The French administration and famine relief -- Philanthropy, patriotism, and the Vietnamese elite (1920-32) -- Engendering charity -- Representing poverty, gender, and nation in Vietnamese literature -- The Popular Front and the problem of colonial poverty (1936-39) -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-176) and index.

Introduction -- Poverty and poor relief in nineteenth-century Vietnam -- The French administration and famine relief -- Philanthropy, patriotism, and the Vietnamese elite (1920-32) -- Engendering charity -- Representing poverty, gender, and nation in Vietnamese literature -- The Popular Front and the problem of colonial poverty (1936-39) -- Conclusion.

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