Viet Nam. Hữu Ngọc
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СКАЧАТЬ Ca Trù: Classical Arias—An Ancient Art Threatened with Extinction

       Tuồng: Việt Nam’s Classical Opera

       Chèo: Popular Opera—An Art Unique to the Red River Delta

       Chèo and Cải Lương (Renovated Theater): Conversations with Tào Mạt and Bửu Tiến

       “Pre-War” Romantic Music Captures the Mood of an Era

       Nam Sơn: A Meeting of East and West

       The Four Pillars of Vietnamese Painting

       The Vietnamese Landscape and the Vietnamese Spirit

       Cao Bằng: Home of the Tày

       From the Bronze Age to Medieval Doctors of Humanities

       The North Country (Ancient Kinh Bắc)

       Hà Nội: City of the Soaring Dragon

       Old Hà Nội

       At the Palace of the Trịnh Lords

       The Cultivated Manners of Tràng An (Hà Nội)

       Tết in Old Hà Nội and Tết Couplets

       The East Country (Xứ Đông)

       The West Country (Xứ Đoài)

       The South Country (Sơn Nam)

       Đọi Tam: The Village of Drums

       Tày Hamlet in Bắc Sơn District

       Quảng Bình Province

       Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh

       A Quick Visit to Cochin China

       Caodaism and Its Beginnings in Tây Ninh Province

       Poulo Condor (Côn Đảo)

       Vietnamese Women and Change

       Teeth Lacquering and Chewing Betel Quids

       Women Conquer the World of Science

       Who Designed the Áo Dài?

       The Life of Single Women

       Single Parenting

       Vietnamese Youth and Virginity

       Đổi Mới (Renovation or Renewal) and Globalization

       Vietnamese Culture Facing Globalization

       The Traditional Family under Fire

       The Market Economy and Matrimony

       Divorce as Seen in a District of Hà Nội

       The Young and Our Traditions

       The Cicada Generation

       A Story of Tomatoes and Watercress

       A Traditional Village Facing the Market Economy

       A Pedicab Driver

       Respect for Teachers Re-Emerges

       The Fight against Corruption

       Saying Hello to the Past

       Appendices

       About the Vietnamese Language

       A Chronology of Vietnamese History

       Henri Oger’s Mechanics and Crafts of the Vietnamese People (1909): Sketches of Hanoians’ Vibrant Life

       Oger Drawings

       Index

      Foreword

      Short, clear introductions to the cultures of Southeast Asian nations are difficult to find. For years, I cobbled together collections of short articles and selections of literature for my university-level introduction to Southeast Asia and presented the historical framework in lecture. My goal was to entice students to investigate the material on their own or in a more advanced class.

      On a trip to Việt Nam, an area outside my own research field in the Bahasa world of Indonesia and Malaysia, I had a chance to meet Hữu Ngọc and was given a copy of Wandering through Vietnamese Culture, a collection of his essays, which is over 1,200 pages. It served as a wonderful guide, containing answers to so many of the questions that had presented themselves. When Ohio University Press was considering publication of an excerpted version of Wandering through Vietnamese Culture, I was asked in my role as editor for the O.U. Press’s Southeast Asia Series to accept the Press’s invitation to make the initial selection of essays.

      Hữu Ngọc originally wrote his essays as newspaper columns for international readers who, living in Việt Nam, had some acquaintance with the country. Yet all of us working on this project, including and especially Hữu Ngọc, wanted also to think of those for whom Việt Nam is completely new. Starting from an early draft Table of Contents, with Hữu Ngọc as expert and author, we worked together to crystallize his oeuvre into a first-taste introduction to Vietnamese history and culture, emphasizing the structure, factors, and individuals he feels are particularly important.

      Việt Nam: Tradition and Change shimmers with Hữu Ngọc’s thoughtful reflections and insight. The collection is designed for students in introductory classes and for other readers interested in Việt Nam. I hope they will also fall in love with the rich cultural heritage of the people and nation that is Việt Nam.

      Hữu Ngọc’s central thesis—“All СКАЧАТЬ