Viet Nam: Tradition and Change
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Overview
During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for Việt Nam News, Hà Nội's English-language newspaper, Hữu Ngọc 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, Hữu Ngọc is among Việt 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 Hữu Ngọc'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 Việt Nam today.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780896803015 |
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| Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
| Publication date: | 08/15/2016 |
| Series: | Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series , #128 |
| Pages: | 386 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword Elizabeth F. Collins xi
Introduction Lady Borton xix
The Vietnamese Identity 1
Nghia 3
The Vietnamese Character 4
The Vietnamese "I" and "We" 7
The Vietnamese: A Warlike People? 8
Are There Differences in the Mentality of Northern and Southern Vietnamese? 9
On Naming a Child 11
The Traditional Village: For and Against 13
A Village Landscape 17
The Traditional Vietnamese House 17
The Communal House 22
The Head and the Heart of the Traditional Village 25
The Four Facets of Vietnamese Culture 27
The Four Facets of Vietnamese Culture 29
Back to the Source in Southeast Asia 32
In Viet Nam, Rice is the Source of Life 33
Myths Die Hard in Viet Nam 35
The Lord of the Sacred Drum Finally Regains His Artefact 37
The Worship of Mother Goddesses 38
Ancestor Worship 42
Village Alliances 44
Vietnamese Cultural Identity 46
A Hyphen between Two Worlds: Indian and Chinese Influences 47
Vietnamese Culture: Southeast Asian Roots Facing Chinese Confucianism 51
French Culture in Viet Nam Today 53
Franco-Vietnamese Karma 55
"Asian Values" and "Family Values" 57
Vietnamese Culture and Doi Moi 58
Viet Nam's Confucian Heritage 61
How to Translate "Van Mieu" 63
Confucius Set Free 64
Filial Piety 66
Confucian Scholar-Administrators 67
Confucius and Machiavelli 69
Confucian Contempt for Commerce and Finance 71
Confucianism and the Vietnamese Revolution 73
Revolutionary Confucian Scholars 74
Confucian Scholars and Modernization 77
Buddhism in Viet Nam 81
The Layout of a Vietnamese Buddhist Pagoda 83
The Buddhist Goddess of Mercy 85
The Bearded Indian in Vietnamese Village Pagodas 86
Mount Yên Tu: The Cradle of Vietnamese Zen 88
Exemplary Vietnamese 91
The Trung Sisters (Hai Bà Trung) 93
Lady Triêu (Bà Triêu) 94
Lý Thuòong Kiêt 95
Chu Van An: Spiritual Master 98
Tran Hung Dao 99
Nguyen Trai: Viêt Nam's Greatest Humanist? 102
Lê Loi and Lam Kinh, Capital of an Ancient Kingdom 105
Quang Trung and His Unfulfilled Vision 107
Ngô Thì Nhâm: A Confucian Scholars Difficult Choice 110
Hoàng Diêu 112
Truong Vinh Ký: A Controversial Figure 114
Nguyên Van Vinh 118
Nguyen Thái Hoc: Hero of Tho Tang Village 120
Teachers at Private Schools in Hue 121
Nguyen Van Huyên: My History Teacher 123
Ho Chí Minh and Western Cultural Values 125
Vietnamese Literature: An Expression of the Nation's Spirit 133
Nguyen Du and The Tale of Kiêu: The Brigand and the Courtesan 135
Nguyen Trai: One of Our Most Famous Poets 137
Ho Xuân Huong: Eroticism and Poetry 139
Lê Quý Dôn 141
Madame Thanh Quan 143
Nguyen Gia Thieu: Poet of Destiny and Sorrow 144
Nguyen Cong Tru: The Poet of Poverty and "The Solitary Pine" 145
Cao Bá Quát: Viêt Nam's Rebel Poet 148
Nguyen Dinh Chieu: A Poet Blinded by Tears of Grief 151
Nguyen Khuyen 153
Pham Tat Dac: His Incendiary Poem 154
Romantic Literary Currents in the 1930s 156
Tan Dà and Quang Dung: Two Poets of the West Country 161
Hàn Mac Tu: Finding Poetry in Suffering 164
Duong Quang Hàm: The First Modern Literary History of Viêt Nam 166
Women Writers Give Vietnamese Literature Some Oooh La La 167
Culture and the Arts 171
Vietnamese Lacquer: All Tradition Is Change through Acculturation 173
What do Vietnamese Water Puppets Say? 175
Ancient Graphic Arts of Viet Nam 176
Tradition and Revolution in Handicrafts 178
Ca Trù: Classical Arias-An Ancient Art Threatened with Extinction 180
Tuong: Viet Nam's Classical Opera 182
Chèo: Popular Opera-An Art Unique to the Red River Delta 184
Chèo and Cat Luong (Renovated Theater): Conversations with Tào Mat and Buu Tien 187
"Pre-War" Romantic Music Captures the Mood of an Era 191
Nam Son: A Meeting of East and West 194
The Four Pillars of Vietnamese Painting 196
The Vietnamese Landscape and the Vietnamese Spirit 199
Cao Bang: Home of the Tày 201
From the Bronze Age to Medieval Doctors of Humanities 202
The North Country (Ancient Kinh Bac) 204
Hà Nôi: City of the Soaring Dragon 206
Old Hà Nôi 209
At the Palace of the Trinh Lords 210
The Cultivated Manners of Tràng An (Hà Nôi) 213
Tet in Old Hà Nôi and Tet Couplets 215
The East Country (Xú Dông) 218
The West Country (Xú Doài) 220
The South Country (Son Nam) 221
Dpi Tarn: The Village of Drums 222
Tày Hamlet in Bac Son District 223
Quang Bình Province 226
Nghê An and Hà Tinh 228
A Quick Visit to Cochin China 230
Caodaism and Its Beginnings in Tây Ninh Province 233
Poulo Condor (Côn Dao) 237
Vietnamese Women and Change 241
Teeth Lacquering and Chewing Betel Quids 243
Women Conquer the World of Science 244
Who Designed the Áo Dài? 247
The Life of Single Women 248
Single Parenting 251
Vietnamese Youth and Virginity 252
Dôi Moi (Renovation or Renewal) and Globalization 255
Vietnamese Culture Facing Globalization 257
The Traditional Family under Fire 261
The Market Economy and Matrimony 263
Divorce as Seen in a District of Hà Nôi 266
The Young and Our Traditions 268
The Cicada Generation 269
A Story of Tomatoes and Watercress 271
A Traditional Village Facing the Market Economy 273
A Pedicab Driver 275
Respect for Teachers Re-Emerges 277
The Fight against Corruption 279
Saying Hello to the Past 282
Appendices 285
About the Vietnamese Language 287
A Chronology of Vietnamese History 291
Henri Oger's Mechanics and Crafts of the Vietnamese People (1909): Sketches of Hanoians' Vibrant Life 301
Oger Drawings 309
Index 343