TY - BOOK AU - Lee,Mai Na M. TI - Dreams of the Hmong kingdom: the quest for legitimation in French Indochina, 1850-1960 T2 - New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies SN - 9780299298838 AV - DS509 .D743 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Madison, Wisconsin PB - The University of Wisconsin Press KW - Ethnic conflict KW - Indochina KW - Hmong (Asian people) KW - History KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1018523&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -