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Title

Contesting visions of the Lao past : Laos historiography at the crossroads / edited by Christopher E. Goscha and Søren Ivarsson.

Publication

Copenhagen : NIAS, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Goscha, Christopher E.
• Ivarsson, Søren.
• Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.

Description

xxix, 326 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

Laos's emergence as a modern nation-state in the 20th century owed much to a complex interplay of internal and external forces. Arguing that the historiography of Laos needs to be understood in this wider context, this study considers how the Lao have written their own nationalist and revolutionary history "on the inside," while others-the French, Vietnamese, and Thais-have attempted to write the history of Laos "from the outside" for their own political ends. As nationalist historiography, like the formation of the nation-state, does not emerge within a nationalist vacuum but rather is created and contested from inside and out, this incisive volume's approach has applications and implications far beyond Laos.

Series Statement

NIAS studies in Asian topics ; 32

Uniform Title

NIAS studies in Asian topics; 32.

Subject

• Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos
• Laos > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-321) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Christopher E. Goscha and Soren Ivarsson -- 1. Two historical records of the Kingdom of Vientiane / Michael Vickery -- 2. Chiang Khaeng 1893-1896 : a Lue principality in the upper Mekong valley at the centre of Franco-British Rivalry / Volker Grabowsky -- 3. Historiography, power and identity : history and political legitimization in Laos / Martin Stuart-Fox -- 4. Different paths : Lao historiography in historical perspective / Grant Evans -- 5. Sila Viravong's Phongsawadan Lao : a reappraisal / Chalong Soontravanich -- 6. Narrating 1945 in Lao historiography / Bruce M. Lockhart -- 7. The Nyuan in Xayabury and cross-border links to Nan / Akiko Iijima -- 8. Luep Phasun (extinguishing the light of the sun) : romance, religion and politics in the interpretation of a traditional Lao poem / Peter Koret -- 9. On the trail of an itinerant explorer : French colonial historiography on Auguste Pavie's work in Laos / Agathe Larcher-Goscha -- 10. Making Laos 'our' space : Thai discourses on history and race, 1900-1941 / Soren Ivarsson -- 11. Revolutionizing the Indochinese past : communist Vietnam's 'special' historiography on Laos / Christopher E. Goscha.

ISBN

8791114020

OCLC

• 62886819
• SCSB-10466286

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library