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    The Vietnamese people first entered written history in the 3rd century BCE when China expanded southward and encountered them in the Red River delta. For much of Vietnam's history since then, its interactions with China have been dominant, as China was the source of Vietnam's high culture. After gaining independence from China in 938 CE, Vietnam maintained a tributary relationship, sending local goods to China and receiving philosophy, administration, and literature in return. However, Chinese culture influenced Vietnamese aristocracy more than the peasantry, who preserved their own customs. The Vietnamese kings modeled themselves after China but had difficulty governing remote areas far from the capital.

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    The Vietnamese people first entered written history in the 3rd century BCE when China expanded southward and encountered them in the Red River delta. For much of Vietnam's history since then, its interactions with China have been dominant, as China was the source of Vietnam's high culture. After gaining independence from China in 938 CE, Vietnam maintained a tributary relationship, sending local goods to China and receiving philosophy, administration, and literature in return. However, Chinese culture influenced Vietnamese aristocracy more than the peasantry, who preserved their own customs. The Vietnamese kings modeled themselves after China but had difficulty governing remote areas far from the capital.

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    Tribal Viets Inhabiting The Red River Delta Entered Written History When China

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    The Vietnamese people first entered written history in the 3rd century BCE when China expanded southward and encountered them in the Red River delta. For much of Vietnam's history since then, its interactions with China have been dominant, as China was the source of Vietnam's high culture. After gaining independence from China in 938 CE, Vietnam maintained a tributary relationship, sending local goods to China and receiving philosophy, administration, and literature in return. However, Chinese culture influenced Vietnamese aristocracy more than the peasantry, who preserved their own customs. The Vietnamese kings modeled themselves after China but had difficulty governing remote areas far from the capital.

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    Tribal Viets inhabiting the Red River delta entered written history when China’s

    southward expansion reached them in the 3rd century BCE. From that time onward, a
    dominant theme of Vietnam’s history has been interaction with China, the source of
    most of Vietnam’s high culture. As a tribute-paying state after throwing off Chinese
    rule in 938 CE, Vietnam sent lacquerware, animal skins, ivory, and tropical products
    to the Chinese emperor and received scrolls on philosophy, administration, and
    literature in return. Sinic culture seeped deeply into society, but it shaped
    the aristocracy and mandarinal families more than it did the peasantry, which
    preserved distinctive customs, beliefs, vocabulary, lifeways, and gender relations.
    Modeling themselves on Chinese emperors, Vietnam’s kings exacted tribute from
    ethnic minorities on the periphery of the Vietnamese state and called themselves
    emperors when not addressing the Chinese court. Although cultural and spatial gaps
    between the Vietnamese court and the farthest reaches of society were not as great as
    they were in China (Vietnam is about the size of a Chinese province, with a
    comparable population), the Vietnamese state’s capacity to rule diminished with
    distance from the capital. The refractory character of bamboo-hedged peasant

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