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Unfurling Dragon – The Multicultural Art of Vietnam<\/em><\/strong> is a companion volume to From the Red River to the Mekong Delta<\/em> ISBN 9786164510722. A collection of over 20 essays from the world’s leading authorities on the art, history or archaeology of Vietnam. From the Bronze Age lowlanders who settled the Red River Valley, the technologically advanced people in the 10th century who stopped a Chinese fleet and declared sovereignty, a Buddhist state that would continue to expand southwards to dominate the long established and artistically advanced Hindu, Buddhist then Islamic culture of multiple ethnic Cam coastal settlements. Finally, in the 18th century the Nguyễn – Dynasty and absorbed the Khmer-Camic culture of the Mekong River Delta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A collection of over 20 essays by the world’s leading authorities of the history, culture and archaeology of Vietnam. Covering over 2,000 years of the history of Vietnam, which absorbed Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic cultures. An academic companion to ‘From the Red River to the Mekong Delta’.
Foreword Peter D. Sharrock 7
\nÓc Eo and the Mekong Delta
\n1. Pre-history of Southern Vietnam: Nguyễn Khánh Trung Kiên 14
\n2. The Nguyễn Delta: Vũ Hồng Liên 20
\n3. ‘Funan’ and ‘Zhenla’ in Chinese annals: Andrew Chittick 30
\n4. Óc Eo Culture’s Rise and Fall: John Miksic 40
\n5. Early Inscriptions from the Mekong Delta: 55
\nKunthea Chhom, Arlo Griffiths
\n6. Buddhist icons of the Delta: Pierre Baptiste 68
\n7. Viṣṇus of the Delta: Paul Lavy 82
\n8. Art of Óc Eo in the Đồng Tháp Mười style: Lê Thị Liên 94
\n9. Gold in Óc Eo culture: Bùi Thị Thúy, Nguyễn Thị Tú Anh, 105
\nNguyễn Hoàng Bách Linh
\n10. Cakras in the Mekong Delta: Pinna Indorf 114
\n11. Ancient Ornaments in Southern Vietnam: Nguyễn Kim Dung 128
\n12. Art of the Nguyễn Dynasty: Director Hoàng Anh Tuấn 135
\nVietnamese Ceramics
\n13. A vibrant, untrammelled tradition: John Stevenson 144
\n14. Vietnamese ceramics 11th to 19th centuries: Phạm Ngọc Uyên 151
\n15. Campā kiln sites and ceramics: Bùi Minh Trí 159
\nCampā
\n16. Cam ritual objects: Anne-Valéry Schweyer 173
\n17. The South and Nagara Campā: John Whitmore 186
\n18. Esoteric Buddhist goddesses of the Campā Vijaya state: 199
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