In search of moral authority the discourse on poverty, poor relief, and charity in French colonial Vietnam /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nguyen-Marshall, Van, 1967-
Corporate Authors: ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, c2008.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Poverty and poor relief in nineteenth-century Vietnam
  • The French administration and famine relief
  • Philanthropy, patriotism, and the Vietnamese elite (1920-32)
  • Engendering charity
  • Representing poverty, gender, and nation in Vietnamese literature
  • The Popular Front and the problem of colonial poverty (1936-39)
  • Conclusion.