It's longer than that, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_domination_of_Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_domination_of_Vietnam The Chines

It's longer than that, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_domination_of_Vietnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_domination_of_Vietnam The Chinese domination of Vietnam began in 111 BC, and is usually considered to have ended in 938 AD. A fourth, relatively brief, 20-year punitive invasion by the Ming dynasty, 400 years later, is usually excluded by historians in discussion of the main, almost continuous, period of Chinese colonization from 111 BC to 938 AD, as is the brief occupation of northern Vietnam by Chinese forces at the end of the Second World War.