Description: A collection of over 20 essays by the world's leading authorities of the history, culture and archaeology of Vietnam. Covering over 2,000 years of the history of Vietnam, which absorbed Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic cultures. An academic companion to 'From the Red River to the Mekong Delta'.
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.