Author: Hữu Mục Lê
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnamese poetry
Languages : vi
Pages : 700
Book Description
Kiêu et la jeunesse
Author: Hữu Mục Lê
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnamese poetry
Languages : vi
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vietnamese poetry
Languages : vi
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Song of Kieu
Author: Nguyen Du
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241360676
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed with musty spices. Sit comfortably by this good light, that you may learn the hard-won lesson that these characters contain.' The Song of Kieu is the greatest classic of Vietnamese literature. It tells the story of the beautiful Vuong Thúy Kieu, who agrees to a financially profitable marriage in order to save her family from ruinous debts, but is tricked into working in a brothel. Her tragic career involves jealous wives, slavery, war, poverty and she also becomes a nun twice. There are high points, such as when she teams up with muscle-bound, tender-hearted rebel hero who makes her his queen and summons all her wrongdoers to account, but the ending is bittersweet. 'To the Vietnamese people themselves, [it] is much more than just a glorious heirloom from their literary past,' says Professor Alexander Woodside of the University of British Columbia. 'It has become a kind of continuing emotional laboratory in which all the great and timeless issues of personal morality and political obligation are tested and resolved [. . .] Western readers who are curious about Vietnam and the Vietnamese may well gain more real wisdom from cultivating a discriminating appreciation of this one poem than they will from reading the entire library of scholarly and journalistic writings upon modern Vietnam which has accumulated in the West.'
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241360676
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed with musty spices. Sit comfortably by this good light, that you may learn the hard-won lesson that these characters contain.' The Song of Kieu is the greatest classic of Vietnamese literature. It tells the story of the beautiful Vuong Thúy Kieu, who agrees to a financially profitable marriage in order to save her family from ruinous debts, but is tricked into working in a brothel. Her tragic career involves jealous wives, slavery, war, poverty and she also becomes a nun twice. There are high points, such as when she teams up with muscle-bound, tender-hearted rebel hero who makes her his queen and summons all her wrongdoers to account, but the ending is bittersweet. 'To the Vietnamese people themselves, [it] is much more than just a glorious heirloom from their literary past,' says Professor Alexander Woodside of the University of British Columbia. 'It has become a kind of continuing emotional laboratory in which all the great and timeless issues of personal morality and political obligation are tested and resolved [. . .] Western readers who are curious about Vietnam and the Vietnamese may well gain more real wisdom from cultivating a discriminating appreciation of this one poem than they will from reading the entire library of scholarly and journalistic writings upon modern Vietnam which has accumulated in the West.'
Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam
Author: Thich Thien-an
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291151X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam provides, for Western readers, a much needed introduction to this important religion—its history, practices, concepts, and role in the lives of the people, the nation, and Vietnamese culture. Recently, Vietnam has aroused the attention of the Western world and made the task of understanding Vietnamese Buddhism more imperative. This Buddhist book gives a comprehensive account of Buddhism in Vietnam and the various Zen Buddhist schools in Vietnam and their relation to Buddhism in other Asian countries. Students of Vietnamese culture and Zen Buddhism will find this penetrating and enlightening study of incalculable value.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 146291151X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Buddhism & Zen in Vietnam provides, for Western readers, a much needed introduction to this important religion—its history, practices, concepts, and role in the lives of the people, the nation, and Vietnamese culture. Recently, Vietnam has aroused the attention of the Western world and made the task of understanding Vietnamese Buddhism more imperative. This Buddhist book gives a comprehensive account of Buddhism in Vietnam and the various Zen Buddhist schools in Vietnam and their relation to Buddhism in other Asian countries. Students of Vietnamese culture and Zen Buddhism will find this penetrating and enlightening study of incalculable value.
Revue Du Sud-Est Asiatique
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Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
L'énigme conjugale
Author: Josiane Cauquelin
Publisher: Presses Univ Blaise Pascal
ISBN: 9782845161238
Category : Asia
Languages : fr
Pages : 256
Book Description
Curieusement, si les ouvrages consacrés aux femmes abondent, ils n'offrent que peu d'éléments sur la relation conjugale. En Asie, comme ailleurs, les enjeux du mariage sont culturellement construits et délimitent la faible marge de manoeuvre laissée à la femme. Les auteurs se sont attachés à comprendre si, malgré les limites qui leur sont assignées, les femmes disposent d'un pouvoir comparable à celui des hommes. Les sources écrites et les matériaux ethnographiques utilisés traitent principalement des groupes majoritaires de la région : Birmans, Chinois Han, Coréens, Lao, Thaïs, Vietnamiens et Bengalis.
Publisher: Presses Univ Blaise Pascal
ISBN: 9782845161238
Category : Asia
Languages : fr
Pages : 256
Book Description
Curieusement, si les ouvrages consacrés aux femmes abondent, ils n'offrent que peu d'éléments sur la relation conjugale. En Asie, comme ailleurs, les enjeux du mariage sont culturellement construits et délimitent la faible marge de manoeuvre laissée à la femme. Les auteurs se sont attachés à comprendre si, malgré les limites qui leur sont assignées, les femmes disposent d'un pouvoir comparable à celui des hommes. Les sources écrites et les matériaux ethnographiques utilisés traitent principalement des groupes majoritaires de la région : Birmans, Chinois Han, Coréens, Lao, Thaïs, Vietnamiens et Bengalis.
Touching Beauty
Author: Miléna Santoro
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228018269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Kim Thúy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Québécois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author’s novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated from French into twenty-nine languages in nearly forty countries. Touching Beauty is the first collection to focus solely on Thúy and her economical yet poetic storytelling style that expresses both the traumatic and the beautiful. Her writings, which manage to be culturally specific all while speaking to the fundamentals of the human condition, are examined within the context of what is known as migrant literature in Canada and are situated within the history of Vietnamese literature in French that grew out of the colonial period. Chapters explore food, identity, gender, and the role of writing in Thúy’s life and work. Thúy herself contributes an unpublished poem and an extended interview that focus on her ongoing struggle to find, and write, beauty amidst war, migration, poverty, and loss. Touching Beauty maps the themes that have, to date, animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation of Thúy’s writing.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228018269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Kim Thúy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Québécois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author’s novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated from French into twenty-nine languages in nearly forty countries. Touching Beauty is the first collection to focus solely on Thúy and her economical yet poetic storytelling style that expresses both the traumatic and the beautiful. Her writings, which manage to be culturally specific all while speaking to the fundamentals of the human condition, are examined within the context of what is known as migrant literature in Canada and are situated within the history of Vietnamese literature in French that grew out of the colonial period. Chapters explore food, identity, gender, and the role of writing in Thúy’s life and work. Thúy herself contributes an unpublished poem and an extended interview that focus on her ongoing struggle to find, and write, beauty amidst war, migration, poverty, and loss. Touching Beauty maps the themes that have, to date, animated a literary career of global relevance and enduring value and encourages a deeper appreciation of Thúy’s writing.
Leaving Saigon
Author: Clément Baloup
Publisher: Humanoids, Inc.
ISBN: 1643378562
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Colonialism and war disrupted the lives of millions of Vietnamese people during the 20th century. These are their stories.
Publisher: Humanoids, Inc.
ISBN: 1643378562
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Colonialism and war disrupted the lives of millions of Vietnamese people during the 20th century. These are their stories.
Pour Une Esthéthique Du Retour
Author: Kenric Kendall Tsethlikai
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author:
Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2958142507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2958142507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In the Crossfire
Author: Ngo Van
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849350493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In 1936, Ngo Van was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the dreaded Maison Centrale prison in Saigon for his part in the struggle to free Vietnam from French colonial rule. Five years later, Vietnamese independence was won, and Van found himself imprisoned and abused once more—this time by the Stalinist freedom fighter Ho Chi Minh. Five years after that, Van was in Paris, working with the surrealists. In the Crossfire documents Ngo Van's incredible life in Vietnam during the two world wars, and his subsequent years spent in the midst of the Parisian intelligentsia. This is the first English translation!
Publisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849350493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In 1936, Ngo Van was captured, imprisoned, and tortured in the dreaded Maison Centrale prison in Saigon for his part in the struggle to free Vietnam from French colonial rule. Five years later, Vietnamese independence was won, and Van found himself imprisoned and abused once more—this time by the Stalinist freedom fighter Ho Chi Minh. Five years after that, Van was in Paris, working with the surrealists. In the Crossfire documents Ngo Van's incredible life in Vietnam during the two world wars, and his subsequent years spent in the midst of the Parisian intelligentsia. This is the first English translation!