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The musician Phạm Duy adapted The Tale of Kiều into an epic song cycle entitled Minh họa Kiều ("Illustrating Kieu") in 1997. The Tale of Kieu was the inspiration for the 2007 movie Saigon Eclipse, which moved the storyline into a modern Vietnamese setting with a modern-day immigrant Kiều working in the massage parlor industry in San ...
The Tale of Kiều (Vietnamese Truyện Kiều) was based on an earlier Chinese prose narrative, Kim Vân Kiều. It was written under a pen name as the story was quite critical of the basic tenets of Confucian morality. It is a tragic tale of two lovers forced apart by the girl's loyalty to her family honor. In Vietnam, the poem is so popular ...
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Jin Yun Qiao or Chin Yun Ch'iao (金雲翹 or 金雲翹傳, The Tale of Jin, Yun and Qiao or The Tale of Chin, Yun, and Ch'iao) is a seventeenth-century Chinese novel by Xu Wei known by his pseudonym Qingxin Cairen (青心才人, Pure Heart Talented Man).
I'll try to add a brief plot summary, when I have time. I've also assessed its importance as "High" (from Unassesssed) - I would agree with what's stated here, that it is widely regarded as the most important work of Vietnamese literature, but it would be good to dig up some references to support this.--
Nguyễn Quảng Tuân, who was born on June 11, 1925, during his studying at Bưởi School in Hanoi, already had poems published in Tia Sang and Thoi su Chu Nhat.He also wrote a play in verse, The Sound of Flute on the O River, which was performed twice: the first time on 4&5 May 1946 in the Grand Theater in Ha Noi and the second time on 23 & 24 of May, 1946 in Hà Tĩnh's local theater.
Kiều (Anglicisation: Kieu), is a Vietnamese surname and unisex given name. Notable people with the surname include: Kiều Công Tiễn (fl. 937–938), Vietnamese general; Kiều Công Hãn (died 967), Vietnamese general, grandson of Kiều Công Tiễn; Kiều Thuận (fl. 10th century), Vietnamese general, younger brother of Kiều Công Hãn
"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade" is a short-story by American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). It was published in the February 1845 issue of Godey's Lady's Book and was intended as a partly humorous sequel to the celebrated collection of Middle Eastern tales One Thousand and One Nights .