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The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao - Loyalty and Identity along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier (Paperback)
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The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao - Loyalty and Identity along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier (Paperback)
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The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao examines the rebellion of the
eleventh-century Tai chieftain Nung Tri Cao (ca. 1025-1055), whose
struggle for independence along Vietnam's mountainous northern
frontier was a pivotal event in Sino-Vietnamese relations. Tri
Cao's revolt occurred during Vietnam's earliest years of
independence from China and would prove to be a vital test of the
Vietnamese court's ability to confront local political challenges
and maintain harmony with its powerful northern neighbor. Tri Cao
established his first kingdom in 1042, at the age of seventeen, but
was captured by Vietnamese troops. After his release in 1048, he
announced the founding of a second kingdom, but an attack by
Vietnamese forces drove him to flee into Chinese territory. Tri Cao
made his final attempt in 1052, proclaiming a new kingdom and
leading thousands of his subjects in a revolt that swept across the
South China coast. But within a year, Chinese imperial troops had
forced him to flee to the nearest independent kingdom. Official
Chinese and Vietnamese accounts of the rebel leader's end vary:
according to the Chinese, the ruler of the independent kingdom had
Tri Cao executed, but in popular accounts, Tri Cao was granted safe
passage into northern Thailand, where his descendants are said to
flourish today. Scholar James Anderson places Tri Cao in context by
exploring the Sino-Vietnamese tributary relationship and the
conflicts that engaged both the Song and Vietnamese courts. The
Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao reconstructs the series of negotiations
that took place between border communities and representatives of
the imperial courts, examining the ways in which Tai and other
ethnic groups deftly navigated the unstable political situation
that followed the demise of China's cosmopolitan Tang dynasty.
Though his rebellion was ill-fated, Tri Cao is, almost a thousand
years later, still worshipped in temples along the Sino-Vietnamese
border, and his memory provides a point of unity for people who
have become separated by modern political boundaries.
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