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Author Lee, Mai Na M., author.

Title Dreams of the Hmong kingdom : the quest for legitimation in French Indochina, 1850-1960 / Mai Na M. Lee.

Publication Info. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource.
Series New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies
New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Introduction : leadership and the politics of legitimation in Hmong society ; Hmong alliance and rebellion within the state (1850-1900) -- Hmong messianism : the mandate of heaven. A chronology of two rebellions (1910-1912 and 1918-1921) ; Messianism as a quest for the mandate of heaven -- The secular political tradition : a mandate by proxy. The creation of a supreme Hmong chief (1900-1935) ; The struggle for paramountcy (1921-1935) ; The emergence of an educated Hmong broker (1936-1940) ; The impact of the Japanese occupation on the highlands (1941-1945) ; Hmong competition finds revolutionary voices in the Kingdom of Laos (1946-1960) ; Epilogue : the continuity of the two strands of leadership.
Subject Ethnic conflict -- Indochina.
Hmong (Asian people) -- Indochina -- History.
Indochina -- Politics and government.
Indochina -- Ethnic relations.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Ethnic conflict. (OCoLC)fst00915943
Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
Hmong (Asian people) (OCoLC)fst00958436
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Indochina. (OCoLC)fst01243492
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Dreams of the Hmong kingdom. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015] (OCoLC)891941849
ISBN 9780299298838 (electronic bk.)
0299298833 (electronic bk.)
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