Author James Anderson, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, introduces his topic suggesting that one of most important issues in the contemporary political economy, the impact of the rise of China, may have some light shed upon it by the study of an eleventh century Vietnamese rebel and his subsequent reception on both sides of the mountainous Sino-Vietnamese border. After all, the rebel, Nung Tri Cao (whose name should have a couple of accents it is not possible for me to recreate in html) existed in the conceptual and geographical space between two significant powers – the Chinese and Dai Viet thrones – and sought not just to create a state of his own but to legitimize himself and his efforts with respect to recognition from the Chinese emperor.
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