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Publication Metadata only Before "Chinese" and "Vietnamese" in the Red River Plain: The Han–Tang Period(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2010) Churchman, MichaelThe identification of people as Chinese and Vietnamese in Vietnam, that has caused much suffering in the last half-century, has been projected back into distant pasts where it does not belong. Almost all historians of the Han©Tang period in the Red River Delta use modern ideas of ©Chinese© and ©Vietnamese© ethnicity to discuss this era, contrasting ©Chinese© invaders with indigenous ©Vietnamese©. Using textual analysis and historical linguistics, this essay argues that no Han©Tang period texts recognise these ethnic divisions, meaning these terms cannot accurately reflect social divisions of the period. Furthermore, none of the national ethnonyms Vietnamese historians claim as their own (like Vi?t and L?c) referred exclusively to Red River Delta people. Where Chinese are concerned, the article explores how the equally problematic term ©Chinese© became applicable to northern migrants, and when it became a useful analytical category of ethnicity in early Vietnamese experience.Publication Metadata only Re-Imagining "Annam": A New Analysis of Sino–Viet–Muong Linguistic Contact(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2010) Phan, John D.This article examines the linguistic boundaries that separated (or united) Medieval China©s southern territories and the river plains of northern Vietnam at the end of the first millennium C.E. New evidence from Sino©Vietnamese vocabulary demonstrates the existence of a regional dialect of Middle Chinese, spoken in the Ma, Ca, and Red River plains. Preliminary analysis suggests that a ©language shift© away from this ©Annamese Middle Chinese© in favor of the local, non-Chinese language, was largely responsible for the highly sinicized lexicon of modern Vietnamese. This theory, which challenges the tradition of an essentially literary source for Sino©Vietnamese, may help to explain some of the sinicized features of Vietnamese phonology and syntax as well. The last section of the article presents a tentative hypothesis for the formal emergence of Vietnamese contra its closest relative, Muong. These hypotheses require further testing, and are presented here as a first look at the history of the languages of ©Annam©.