Chinese southern diaspora studies_Issue 4 (for Volume 4)
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4
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4
Issue Date
2010
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1834-609X
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English-language Editor’s Introduction [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 4, 2010]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2010)
編者的話 [Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 4, 2010]
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2010)
"Chinese" and "Vietnamese" in "Vietnam": A Symposium on Origins
(Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, The Australian National University, 2010)
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©.
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, Michael
The 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.
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