Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Chinese Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

1. Vietnam And China: Acculturation's Apparitions And Certain Realities Behind Them -- The Vietnamese Monarchy And Its Two Traditions -- Vietnamese Historiography And Vietnamese Interaction With China -- Southeast Asian Features In Vietnamese Society And Culture -- Familial Institutions And The Sino-vietnamese Social Order -- Linguistic And Literary Bridge-building Between China And Vietnam -- The Hazards Of The Vietnamese Throne -- 2. Nguyen And Ch'ing Central Civil Administration: Power Structures And Communications Processes -- Imperial Power In Bureaucratic Confucian Society -- An Overview Of Sino-vietnamese Central Civil Administration -- Nguyen Variations Within The Basic Administrative Plan Borrowed From China -- The Imperial Secretariats And The Flow Of Information From Village To Throne -- The Nguyen Privy Council And Minh-mang's Work Of Centralization -- Ratings In The Vietnamese And Chinese Bureaucracies --^ 3. The Borrowing Ideals Of Court Bureaucrats And The Practical Problems Of Provincial Administrators -- Methods And Factors In The Diffusion Of Chinese Books And Ideas -- The Borrowing Of An Imperial Milieu: The Rise Of Hue -- Regionalism And The Breakdown Of Administrative Homogeneity -- The Chinese Provincial System's Transposition To Vietnam -- The Laws Of The Emperor Are Less Than The Customs Of The Village -- Chinese Methods Of Rural Control: The Court Confronts Provincial Officialdom -- 4. Education And Examinations In Nguyen Vietnam -- An Overview Of The Vietnamese Examination System In The 1800's -- Students, Teachers, And Texts -- The Bureaucratic Organization Of The Examination System -- The Contents Of The Examinations And Their Purpose -- Regional Vicissitudes Of The Vietnamese Examination System -- The Nature Of Vietnamese Confucianism And The Alienation Of Cao Ba Quat -- 5. The Emperor, The Bureaucracy, And The World Outside Vietnam --^ The Vietnamese Court's Creation Of A Tributary System -- Model Versus Realities: The Nguyen Duel With Siam Over Cambodia And Laos -- The Nguyen Court's Approaches To Foreign Trade -- The Vietnamese Reaction To The Opium War -- The Invasion Of Western Culture. Bibliography: P. 326-334.