Full Description
Unfurling Dragon - The Multicultural Art of Vietnam is a companion volume to From the Red River to the Mekong Delta ISBN 9786164510722. A collection of over 20 essays from the world's leading authorities on the art, history or archaeology of Vietnam. From the Bronze Age lowlanders who settled the Red River Valley, the technologically advanced people in the 10th century who stopped a Chinese fleet and declared sovereignty, a Buddhist state that would continue to expand southwards to dominate the long established and artistically advanced Hindu, Buddhist then Islamic culture of multiple ethnic Cam coastal settlements. Finally, in the 18th century the Nguyễn - Dynasty and absorbed the Khmer-Camic culture of the Mekong River Delta.
Contents
Foreword Peter D. Sharrock 7
Óc Eo and the Mekong Delta
1. Pre-history of Southern Vietnam: Nguyễn Khánh Trung Kiên 14
2. The Nguyễn Delta: Vũ Hồng Liên 20
3. 'Funan' and 'Zhenla' in Chinese annals: Andrew Chittick 30
4. Óc Eo Culture's Rise and Fall: John Miksic 40
5. Early Inscriptions from the Mekong Delta: 55
Kunthea Chhom, Arlo Griffiths
6. Buddhist icons of the Delta: Pierre Baptiste 68
7. Viṣṇus of the Delta: Paul Lavy 82
8. Art of Óc Eo in the Đồng Tháp Mười style: Lê Thị Liên 94
9. Gold in Óc Eo culture: Bùi Thị Thúy, Nguyễn Thị Tú Anh, 105
Nguyễn Hoàng Bách Linh
10. Cakras in the Mekong Delta: Pinna Indorf 114
11. Ancient Ornaments in Southern Vietnam: Nguyễn Kim Dung 128
12. Art of the Nguyễn Dynasty: Director Hoàng Anh Tuấn 135
Vietnamese Ceramics
13. A vibrant, untrammelled tradition: John Stevenson 144
14. Vietnamese ceramics 11th to 19th centuries: Phạm Ngọc Uyên 151
15. Campā kiln sites and ceramics: Bùi Minh Trí 159
Campā
16. Cam ritual objects: Anne-Valéry Schweyer 173
17. The South and Nagara Campā: John Whitmore 186
18. Esoteric Buddhist goddesses of the Campā Vijaya state: 199
Trần Kỳ Phương & Nguyễn Thị Tú Anh
