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chinatownModern Vietnam shares a physical border with China and
has a long and complex history of ethnic Chinese in Vietnam. For
about a thousand years from the Qin, 秦朝 to the Five dynasties
period， 五代十国, the northern parts of modern Vietnam was
incorporated into the Chinese empire. Periods of political
disintegration in china and rise of local resistance movement
lodged and dislodged Vietnam in and out of the Chinese empire.
Chinese came as administrators, soldiers, traders and migrants.
They brought along their culture and became agents of cultural
diffusion to the Vietnamese society. Meanwhile, intermarriage
between Chinese and Vietnamese produced a group of Sino-Viet
social elites.   By 940, Vietnam was able to establish herself
as a separate political identity for the next 900 years. During
this period, the Vietnamese civilization spread southwards and
expanded over the Mekong de