Vietnamese Clan Regulation Documents at the Institute of Sino-Nom Studies

Abstract

Aim at research on Vietnamese clan regulation documents currently archived at the Institute of Sino-Nom Studies, we have created a list of clan regulations that are scattered in other documents (mainly in genealogical records) to analyze and point out its characteristics from these documents’s size and title; to date these texts by textology method; to determine the distribution range of the clans that possessed regulations from the perpective of historical toponymy. Based on these research archivements, this article makes conclusions about the volume, titles, geographical distribution and historical characteristics of these archives.
(Received 18 September 2020; published 5 December 2020)