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 Encyclopedia article: Vietnamese language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt, less commonly tiếng Việt Nam or Việt ngữ), formerly known as Annamite, is the national and official language of Vietnam (A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945) (Việt Nam).
Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam (A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945).
Vietnamese extensively uses a system of classifiers (A word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class in which an item belongs) to indicate word classes of nouns.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vietnamese_language.htm   (2697 words)

  
 BVOM.COM - Vietnam Literature and Arts
Vietnamese literature includes two major components which have developed simultaneously and are profoundly interrelated: Folk literature and written literature.
Vietnamese folk literature came into being very early and had a profound effect on the spiritual life of the Viets.
Vietnamese literature thereby developed quickly in terms of quantity, genre and form.
www.bvom.com /resource/vn_Literature.asp?pContent=Literature   (485 words)

  
 Cong-Huyen-Ton-Nu Nha-Trang -- Research Papers
I have found that the most simple and logical way to define modern Vietnamese literature is to identify and describe the features marking its departure from traditional literature which had dominated the Vietnamese cultural sphere for centuries.
This was one of the more powerful moments in the history of modern Vietnamese literature: her talk brought into sharp focus the two-year-old battle in printed words between old and new poetry involving not only individuals but also the press.
To round up, I would propose that modern Vietnamese literature emerged when the full development of quoc ngu as a medium enabled writing both in prose and in verse to depart from the traditional literature which was very much influenced by the Chinese classics.
www.geocities.com /chtn_nhatrang/modlit.html   (3665 words)

  
 Vietnamese language, alphabet and pronunciation
Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 68 million people in Vietnam.
Vietnamese was originally written with a Siniform (Chinese-like) script known as Chữ-nôm or Nôm.
Vietnamese is a tonal language with 6 tones.
www.omniglot.com /writing/vietnamese.htm   (235 words)

  
 Session 196:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The best recent work on Vietnamese literature has come from historians, who focus on texts that address questions of the nation, whether in colonial times or in the recent period of social renovation.
By bringing interdisciplinary critics of the emerging literatures to a panel of the Vietnamese Studies Group, and asking for a formal response from a critic of Southeast Asian literature, we plan to make the question, "What is Vietnamese literature?" of interest to wider disciplinary circles.
Vietnamese American writing has tended to be somber, if not grim, in treating the war and exile.
www.aasianst.org /absts/1998abst/seasia/se196.htm   (643 words)

  
 UCLA International Institute :: The Machinery of Vietnamese Art and Literature in the Post-Renovation, Post-Communist, ...
The most profound "changing external circumstances" that affected Vietnamese literature in the past two decades are the so-called literary Renovation movement, which began in 1986 and "reached its peak in 1988-89 and had no official ending," and the post-Renovation period, from the mid-1990s to today.
The problem of Vietnamese literature in the post-Renovation period is not simply a problem of the market running unchecked, nor is it simply a problem of political repression.
Pham Thi Hoài is a contemporary Vietnamese author, best known for her first novel Thien Su, or The Crystal Messenger, which was first published in Hanoi in 1988, and subsequently banned by the Vietnamese government.
www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=7568   (1762 words)

  
 Vietnamese literature --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Early Vietnamese poetry was written exlusively in Chinese until the end of the 13th century.
As in the history of the literature of most peoples, poetry was the first literary expression of the Germans.
The term Russian literature is used to describe the literature of different areas at different periods, from the loose confederation of East Slavic tribes known as Kievan Rus that originated in the 10th century to the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union to present-day Russia.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9389404   (686 words)

  
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All are invited to consider joining the Contemporary Vietnamese Literature Study Group, sponsored at Chapel Hill by the Asian Studies program and the University Center for International Studies.
Vietnamese writers have played an active role in these movements as well as recording and reflecting upon them.
They have created a modern literature that is especially suited to research and teaching on both the social and the personal aspects of life in exciting times.
www.ibiblio.org /leja/events/slot7/vietnam/vietnam1.html   (1145 words)

  
 Vietnam Bibliography - Literary History/Criticism
They exclude the literature produced "in the towns under American occupation," finding it to be "with few exceptions not worth mentioning, except in that it served as a tool of neo-colonialism" (144).
After the introduction comes a chapter on Vietnamese exile narratives which are seen as differing from Euro-American narratives in their stress on biculturality and communality.
The largets anthology of Vietnamese literature in English.
www.yale.edu /seas/bibliography/chapters/chap4.html   (1422 words)

  
 Vietnam Bibliography - Do^`i Mo(+i or Renovation Literature
Previously in communist literature badness could be ascribed to rich land owners and members of the bourgeoisie but not to the "new socialist man," certainly not to Party officials who were supposed to be wise and capable of solving all problems.
Renovation writers, he says, "recognize that in literature there is reserved a fairly extensive territory for the 'I,' for the personal aspect of people, ordinary common people" (345).
One impetus for relaxing central control of literature and journalism was economic: lacking funds to support many publications, the government told agencies that their journals would have to become self-supporting.
www.yale.edu /seas/bibliography/chapters/chap11.html   (4685 words)

  
 Brief Introduction to Vietnamses Literature - Nguyen Viet Nam
Vietnamese have created the richest of literature, which includes all aspects of Vietnamese Social Culture from countryside to the kingdom.
Han, The Vietnamese literature in Han: From the 2
Vietnamese literature in South of Vietnam: People in South of Vietnam had been freedom to write in any area of human life including sex, culture, socio-economic, politics, literature, religions, arts etc. Unfortunately, all of these products were destroyed, burned out right after Communist Government ruled the strong tyrannize on people of
www.vovinam-via.org /nguyenvnam18.htm   (811 words)

  
 www.vietventures.com
Folk literature held a great significance in Vietnam and made immense contribution to preserving and developing the national language as well as nourishing the people’s soul.
Written literature attained speedy development after the August Revolution, when it was directed by the Vietnamese Communist Party’s guideline and focused on the people’s fighting and working life.
Modern Vietnamese literature has developed from romanticism to realism, from heroism in wartime to all aspects of life, and scoured into ordinary life to find out genuine values of the Vietnamese people.
www.vietventures.com /Vietnam/vietnamese_literature.asp   (366 words)

  
 VIETNAMESE LITERATURE:A BRIEF SURVEY
Finally a succinct introduction to the beautiful literature of a beautiful country, offering English translations of major writing by classical and modern writers, accompanied by analytic comments as well as the original passage in Vietnamese.
The three chapters in Part 4 (Modern Literature) discuss the first three decades of the 20th century, the period from 1930 to 1954, and the period from 1954 to 1975, with comments on the post-1975 period.
It is ideal for students of Vietnamese as well as travelers and businesspeople.
www.saigon.com /~nguyent/hoa_02.html   (322 words)

  
 Anthologies (from Vietnamese literature) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The name is often applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the excellence of their execution.
Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
The dual nature of Irish literature is further reflected in its two distinct tongues—Gaelic and English.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-232188?tocId=232188   (785 words)

  
 Vietnamese Literature (Vietnam)
Classical literature, modeled after the Chinese, was one of two styles used in pre-French colonial rule, with the other being a local one that centered around local genres and themes.
Namely, literature was written in quoc ngu and modeled after Western styles, particularly drama, poetry and novels.
Nowadays, modern Vietnamese writers are staying away from "socialism realism" and are writing more about the realities of the Vietnam War legacy and societal problems.
www.asianinfo.org /asianinfo/vietnam/pro-literature.htm   (238 words)

  
 Celebrating Vietnamese literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He writes Hemingway-esque stories about his boyhood in Vietnam, his career as a captain in the South Vietnamese Army, his nation's 1975 defeat, his flight to exile, his new life in Orange County, his losses and loves.
Younger Vietnamese-Americans are also drawn to different themes and subjects, such as the conflicts between their Vietnamese heritage and American culture instead of war and exile.
Nevertheless, hundreds of local writers are publishing in Vietnamese, carrying on the Confucian tradition that accords the highest esteem to writers and scholars.
kicon.com /nhien/OCRegister_2001_08_17_LSBF.html   (539 words)

  
 THE WRITERS POST
The reader is introduced to a magazine where selected pieces of literature by published authors, and new writers as well, are presented.
The aim of this section is to introduce to English-speaking readers some writings of Vietnamese writers, among their considerable literary works written in a language of lesser currency yet worthy of notice, published in their country and abroad.
March 2002: The Writers Post is pleased to announce the launch of the Premier Issue of the Wordbridge, a magazine of literature and literature in translation, in Spring 2002.
www.thewriterspost.net   (422 words)

  
 The Viet Nam Literature Project - VNLP - Vietnamlit.org
Hurricane Katrina blew Vietnamese out of Louisiana and Mississippi into Texas, where they were greeted by the local Vietnamese community and volunteers from afar.
Meanwhile, Vietnamese around the world looked on in horror at the plight of New Orleans, a poor city in a rich country.
Vietnamese authorities have declined to publish him since 1997, but Chanh’s own illegal photocopy editions in Saigon as well as the leading websites of the Vietnamese diaspora in Germany and Australia have built a readership among his peers.
www.vietnamlit.org   (301 words)

  
 Daily Viet Nam News » Blog Archive » (Vietnamese)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vietnamese Literature in the GoCee Vi t Center … Vi t Center.
Vietnamese Literature and Poetry … Brief History of Vietnamese literature.
An introduction to Vietnamese cuisine- it’s history, ingredients, methods, and tools … aesthetics and presentation, these influences give Vietnamese cooking a tremendous pallete of flavors … from north to south.
dailyvietnam.com /2005/12/08/vietnamese-2   (356 words)

  
 English 240: Modern Vietnamese Literature in Translation
The general and unchanging title of this course is "English 240: World Literature." Its purpose is to introduce you to literature other than American and English literature.
The Tale of Kiều:  Read this work by Nguyễn Du, the most famous and most admired work in all of Vietnamese literature, and compare its theme and structure to the modern Vietnamese novels that we will be reading.
Vietnamese Short Stories," and I have commented on this story in an introduction (which I've put on reserve along with another copy of the story; see "Two Beauties" under my name on the reserve list).
www.humboldt.edu /~jcs1/engl240.html   (3292 words)

  
 Books_Vietnamese_Literature
Thiep captured the emotional quality of Vietnamese life in a way no other author had done, and his importance can be recognized today by his enormous influence on younger writers.
Nguyen Du's Tale of Kieu occupies the role of Shakespeare in Vietnamese literature: children study it in school, adults allude to it in daily conversation.
This epic poem dates from the seventeenth century and is a cornerstone of Vietnamese literature.
www.davifo.dk /Amazon_vns.htm   (2284 words)

  
 Bexley Council - Libraries -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The folk literature always praised beauty, humanism, love of godness, and contributed to the formation of a national sense.
But since the 16th century, Chu Nom literature became increasingly popular, and held a prime position by the early 18th century.
In the 20's, the country's literature was written in Vietnamese Quoc Ngu (Romanized national language).
www.bexley.gov.uk /service/lib-vietlit.html   (358 words)

  
 Vietnamese Classical Literature
If the Vietnamese do not all agree in their choice of a national hero, they unanimously consider Nguyen-Du, the author of Kim-Van-Kieu ", a 3,254 line poem composed in the early 19th century, as their national poet.
Nguyen-Du was born in 1765 at the village of Tien-Dien, in the province of Ha-Tinh (now in North Vietnamese territory), the seventh child of a former Prime Minister under the Le dynasty.
Few are the Vietnamese - whatever their social background - who do not know one or two lines of the poem and some of them even use it as a book of oracles, finding in it, in times of difficulty and stress if not the answer, at least an echo to their own problems.
www.vietspring.org /literature/kieu.html   (1474 words)

  
 TUAN NGOC NGUYEN's HOME PAGE
Văn học Việt Nam dưới chế độ cộng sản (Vietnamese Literature under the Communist Regime, 1945-90), Văn Nghệ, California, 1991, reprinted 1996.
“Vietnamese Poetry Entering the 21th Century”, an introduction written to the anthology “26 Vietnamese Contemporary Poets”, Tan Thu, California, 2002.
About 100 critical writings on Vietnamese literature in major Vietnamese literary magazines such as Que Me (Paris), Van (California), Van Hoc (California), Van Lang (California), The Ky 21 (California), Hop Luu (California), Van Xa (Toronto), and Viet Journal (Melbourne).
www.staff.vu.edu.au /tuannguyen/my_profile.htm   (451 words)

  
 Viet Nam Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Despite the harsh trials of history in the form of repeated foreign invasion, its own characteristics remain.Vietnamese literature includes two major components which have developed simultaneously and are profoundly interrelated: Folk literature and written literature.
From then on Vietnamese literature developed constantly, particularly during the two wars of resistance for national liberation.
Tranditionally, Vietnamese literature always featured patriotism, national pride and humanism.
www.vietnamemb.se /Tourism/Country/literature.html   (398 words)

  
 Literature Home Page
Vo Thu tinh takes an in-depth look at the genesis and nature of the oral literature of Vietnam and its function as the underpinning of Vietnamese popular culture, which has survived alongside the written tradition.
Vo Thu Tinh makes a compelling case for Chu Nom to be the cultural tool responsible for the flowering of Vietnamese, as opposed to Sino-Vietnamese, literature down to the late 19th century.
Autumn Impressions brings you the beauty and melancholy of the season that presages the bleak of winter as it is depicted by some French, English, and Vietnamese poets.
www.geocities.com /tdl.geo/liter.html   (679 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vietnamese American writers Tran, who has published in such journals as Amerasia and Antioch Review, and her coeditors present a volume rich in the voices of people made to straddle two cultures.
While other anthologies of Vietnamese literature focus on the experience of the Vietnam War, this book focuses mostly on first- or second-generation Vietnamese Americans as they maneuver through American culture.
Not to be missed are Andrew Lam's two stories "Grandma's Tales," an unexpectedly droll flight of fancy about the death of a Vietnamese grandmother, and "Show and Tell," the moving portrayal of the introduction of a Vietnamese refugee boy into an eighth-grade American class.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1889876046?v=glance   (775 words)

  
 18th Century Vietnamese Literature
Vietnamese researchers and publishers have, over the past 50 years done an enormous amount of work in translating and compiling important bodies of literature from the 18th century (as well as other eras).
It is chiefly through these efforts that Vietnamese literature of this period is accessible today.
Despite his work, and that of a few others, much of the 18th century literary output continues to be available only in Vietnamese, or occasionally in French.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/ealc/faculty/dutton/litsources.html   (990 words)

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