The Vietnam Report: National Landscape, Current Challenges and Opportunities for Growth

• Main Authors: Institute for Societal Leadership, ELLINGTON, John W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Vietnam; History; Culture; Development; Asian History; Asian Studies; Growth and Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/isl_research/10; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=isl_research
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Although most of Southeast Asia is home to religions and cultures carrying significant Indic influence, Vietnam alone is the mainland’s only Sinicised culture. Chinese emperors directly ruled northern Vietnam for most of the period spanning 111 BCE to 938 CE. The next eight hundred years saw a series...