Viet Nam

Tradition and Change

Hữu Ngọc, Lady Borton, Elizabeth F. Collins, Lady Borton, Elizabeth F. Collins

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9780896804937
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Essays in Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

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...