The Rise of the Coast: Trade, State and Culture in Early Dai Viet

摘要

The surge in Song foreign trade affected Dai Viet greatly, helping to integrate the upper and lower valley of the Red River first economically in the twelfth century, then politically with the rise of the Trdn dynasty in the thirteenth, and finally culturally in the fourteenth. Coastal wealth, power and classical Chinese scholarship entered the inland capital of Thang Long (Hanoi) and strongly influenced it, leading to major changes across the land.