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| | A Southeast Asian foil to Western moral tensions: Nguyen Du’s Tale of Kieu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | As the poet Nguyen Du informs us at several points, a melancholy bent of spirit is the temperament appropriate to a woman of Kieu’s gifts. |
 | | Nguyen Du, The Tale of Kieu, a bilingual edition translated and annotated by Huynh Sanh Thong, with a historical essay by Alexander B. Woodside(New Haven: Yale University, 1983). |
 | | Consider, for example, how often her life is construed in terms of “debts” or obligations, whether to her family or to her karma (Nguyen Du, The Tale of Kieu, lines 228, 670, 708, 877, 1019, 1198, 1252, 1465, 1694, 2309, 2330, etc.). |
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