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The Tale of Kiều is an epic poem in Vietnamese written by Nguyễn Du (1765–1820), well known in Vietnamese literature. [1][2][3][4] The original title in Vietnamese is Đoạn Trường Tân Thanh (斷腸新聲, "A New Cry From a Broken Heart"), but it is better known as Truyện Kiều (傳翹, IPA: [t͡ɕwiən˧˨ʔ kiəw˨˩] ⓘ, lit ...
Pétrus Ký. Trương Vĩnh Ký (chữ Hán: 張永記; 6 December 1837 – 1 September 1898), known as Pétrus Ký and Jean-Baptiste Pétrus, was a Vietnamese scholar whose publications helped improve understanding between colonial Vietnam and Europe. His works helped popularize the Vietnamese alphabet, chữ Quốc ngữ, leading to its ...
Trương Định (1820 – August 19, 1864), sometimes known as Trương Công Định, was a mandarin ( scholar-official) in the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam under Emperor Tự Đức. He is best known for leading a guerrilla army in southern Vietnam against French forces in defiance of the emperor. [ 1] He refused to recognise the 1862 Treaty ...
Young Lions Fiction Award Winner 2004, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Winner. Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968, in Saigon in South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University [1] and Columbia University School of Law. [2] She has written multiple books, and her first novel, The ...
Trương Như Tảng. Trương Như Tảng (14 November 1923 – 8 November 2005) was a South Vietnamese lawyer and politician. He was active in many anti- South Vietnam organizations before joining the newly created Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam as the Minister of Justice. He spent many years in the ...
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu (阮 廷 炤; 1 July 1822 – 3 July 1888) [1] was a Vietnamese poet who was known for his nationalist and anti-colonial writings against the French colonization of Cochinchina, the European name for the southern part of Vietnam. [2][3] He was the best known opponent of collaboration in the south of Vietnam and was ...
On Tuesday, Pentagon officials pressured Senators to approve the nomination of Lt. Gen. Ronald Clark to a top Army role in the Pacific.
The Viet Cong [nb 1] was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.Formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam [nb 2] and nominally conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV), the movement fought under the direction of North Vietnam ...