"This wonderful and truly outstanding book presents little-known archival material in a most compelling fashion. Patricia M. Pelley has written an elegant and lucid book that will generate much scholarly discussion in the years to come, and in a number of disciplines. It will become mandatory reading for all those interested in Vietnam and Southeast Asian history. "--Panivong Norindr, author of "Phantasmatic Indochina: French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film and Literature"

Acknowledgments
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A Note on Diacritics
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Introduction: Postcolonial Visions
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1. Constructing History
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2. The Land of the Viet and Viet Nam
3. Chronotypes, Commemoration: A New Sense of Time
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Epilogue
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List of Abbreviations
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Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index