| ID | 183173 |
| Title Proper | Formation of a Kinh traditional village in Huế in early modern Vietnam |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ueda, Shin'ya |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article traces the transformation of Huế from an open migrant society to a closed community from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries through an examination of the village documents of Thanh Phước in Thừa Thiên Huế province. In Thanh Phước, the expansion of cultivated land reached its limits around the end of the seventeenth century. Subsequently, continuous population pressure resulted in the emergence of social groups with closed and fixed membership called làng and dòng họ after the eighteenth century. A significant feature of this social development was that the patrilineal kinship favoured by Confucianism was used to protect the vested interests of the earliest inhabitants of the village and their descendants. This indicates that the penetration of Confucianism among the common people and the development and stagnation of agriculture in early modern Vietnam were mutual, complementary phenomena. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of South East Asian Studies Vol. 52, No.4; Dec 2021: p.726 - 750 |
| Journal Source | Journal of South East Asian Studies 2021-12 52, 4 |
| Key Words | Vietnam |