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Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the “Secret War” in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, this study reveals how the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, and illuminates their political choices over the course of a century in a highly contested region of Asia.

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“Mai Na Lee’s ability to situate the histories in local, national and regional terms has raised the bar for scholarship on highland areas of Southeast Asia. She uses the French colonial archives with skill and nuance, and is methodologically equally at home with oral history interviews. Her use of dreams, rumours and the dynamics of millenarian movements, plus kinship and ritual conventions, adds yet other dimensions to her work.”—Asian Studies Review

Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom The Quest for

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      Publisher MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Published 6/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780299298845
      978-0299298845
      ISBN-10 0299298841
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      Political activism / Political engagement Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Countering notions that Hmong history begins and ends with the “Secret War” in Laos of the 1960s and 1970s, this study reveals how the Hmong experience of modernity is grounded in their sense of their own ancient past, when this now-stateless people had their own king and kingdom, and illuminates their political choices over the course of a century in a highly contested region of Asia.

      Trade Review
      “Mai Na Lee’s ability to situate the histories in local, national and regional terms has raised the bar for scholarship on highland areas of Southeast Asia. She uses the French colonial archives with skill and nuance, and is methodologically equally at home with oral history interviews. Her use of dreams, rumours and the dynamics of millenarian movements, plus kinship and ritual conventions, adds yet other dimensions to her work.”—Asian Studies Review

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