Viet Nam
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Viet Nam

Tradition and Change

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eBook - ePub

Viet Nam

Tradition and Change

About this book

During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for Vi?t Nam News, Hà N?i's English-language newspaper, H?u Ng?c charmed and invigorated an international readership hungry for straightforward but elegant entrees into understanding Vietnamese culture. The essays were originally collected in the massive Wandering through Vietnamese Culture. With Viet Nam: Tradition and Change, Ohio University Press presents a selection from these many treasures, which are perfectly suited to students of Vietnamese culture and travelers seeking an introduction to the country's rich history, culture, and daily life.

With extraordinary linguistic ability and a prodigious memory, H?u Ng?c is among Vi?t Nam's keenest observers of and writers about traditional Vietnamese culture and recent history. The author's central theme—that all tradition is change through acculturation—twines through each of the book's ten sections, which contain H?u Ng?c's ideas on Vietnamese religion, literature, history, exemplary figures, and more. Taken on its own, each brief essay is an engaging discussion of key elements of Vietnamese culture and the history of an issue confronting Vi?t Nam today.

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Index
Pages with quotations appear in italics.
Am=American;
Ch=Chinese;
Fr=French;
VN=Vietnamese;
EFEO=École française d’Éxtrême-Orient
American War (from 1945 or 1954 to 1975)
combat, 10, 16, 103–109, 193, 228, 231, 246, 273, 275–77, 298
cultural influences, 93, 107, 123, 270
time marker, xxiii–xxiv, 59, 79, 155, 223, 236–37, 246–47, 261, 271
war damage, 16, 228, 230, 258–59
An Dương Vương (VN ethnic Tày legendary king), 201, 204, 229, 291
ancestral veneration. See under religions, spirituality & beliefs
Annam. See under Việt Nam: regions, Central Region
aó dài (long tunic), xvii, 47, 247–48
Ấp Bắc Battle (American War, 1963), 231
architecture
Chinese influences, 64–65, 207, 232
French influences, 54–55, 232, 282
Việt influences, 15, 22–24, 196, 201, 283
art
Indochina Fine Arts College, xvi, 55, 174, 194–97, 248, 284
lacquer
funery & pagoda objects, mummies, furniture, 173–74, 212–13, 222, 332
paintings, 47, 54–55, 180, 196–98, 304
teeth, xvii, 221, 243–44, 248, 319
painting, xvi, 47, 54–55, 194–98, 333
sculpture, 15, 24, 85, 196, 201, 205, 222, 232, 305
woodblock prints, xvi, 176–78, 205, 301–42
August 1945 Revolution
description, 31, 73, 121, 202, 209, 263, 295
effects, 16, 34–35, 67, 73, 121, 192, 245, 264–64, 275, 277, 279
participants, 122, 163, 166, 197, 202, 224
time marker, 5, 54, 188, 191–92, 195, 196, 252, 284
Aurousseau, Léonard (EFEO scholar, 1888–1929), 56
Bà Triệu (Lady Triệu, VN queen, reign: 246–248 CE), 94–95, 291
Bắc Sơn Uprising (VN, 1940), 223–26
Bạch Đằng River Battles (VN, 900s, 1200s CE), 89, 99–102, 194, 283
Baker, Josephine (French singer & dancer, 1906–1975), 192
banyan tree, 17, 23, 105–107, 175, 198, 282, 311
Baudelaire, Charles (French poet, 1821–1...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. The Vietnamese Identity
  9. The Four Facets of Vietnamese Culture
  10. Việt Nam’s Confucian Heritage
  11. Buddhism in Việt Nam
  12. Exemplary Vietnamese
  13. Vietnamese Literature: An Expression of the Nation’s Spirit
  14. Culture and the Arts
  15. The Vietnamese Landscape and the Vietnamese Spirit
  16. Vietnamese Women and Change
  17. Đổi Mới (Renovation or Renewal) and Globalization
  18. Appendices
  19. Index