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Night, Again
''Night, Again'' is an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese fiction, edited by Linh Dinh. Published in 1996 by Seven Stories Press, then reissued in 2006 with two new stories, ''Night, Again'' features key authors emerging from the liberalization of Đổi Mới in the 1980s, as well as major writers living overseas. The stories include: :"Sleeping on Earth" by Nguyễn Thị Ấm, translated by Phan Huy Đường and Nina McPherson :"A Marker on the Side of the Boat" by Bảo Ninh, translated by Linh Dinh :"Reflections of Spring" by Dương Thu Hương, translated by Nguyễn Nguyệt Cầm and Linh Dinh :"Without a King" by Nguyễn Huy Thiệp, translated by Linh Dinh :"The River's Curse" by Trần Ngọc Tuấn, translated by Linh Dinh :"Scenes from an Alley" by Lê Minh Khuê, translated by Bắc Hoài Trân and Nina Sachs :"The Way Station" by Đỗ Phước Tiến, translated by Phan Huy Đường and Nina McPherson :"A Stagnant Water Place" by Thế Giang, translated by C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it the world's sixteenth-most populous country. Vietnam borders China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon). Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established in the first millennium BC on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam. The Han dynasty annexed Northern and Central Vietnam under Chinese rule from 111 BC, until the first dynasty emerged in 939. Successive monarchical dynasties absorbed Chinese influences through Confucianism and Buddhism, and expanded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linh Dinh
Linh Dinh (Vietnamese: , born 1963, Saigon, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American poet, fiction writer, translator, and photographer. He was a 1993 Pew Fellow. He writes a column for '' The Unz Review''. Biography Dinh came to the US in 1975, lived in Philadelphia and in 2018 is moving back to Vietnam. In 2005, he was a David Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England. He spent 2002–2003 in Italy as a guest of the International Parliament of Writers and the town of Certaldo. He was a visiting faculty member at University of Pennsylvania. From 2015–2016, Dinh was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany. Career He is the author of two collections of stories, ''Fake House'' and ''Blood and Soap'', and five books of poems: ''All Around What Empties Out'', ''American Tatts'', ''Borderless Bodies'', ''Jam Alerts'', and ''Some Kind of Cheese Orgy''. His first novel, ''Love L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bao Ninh
Baozi (), Pao-tsih or bao, is a type of yeast-leavened filled bun in various Chinese cuisines. There are many variations in fillings (meat or vegetarian) and preparations, though the buns are most often steamed. They are a variation of ''mantou'' from Northern China. Two types are found in most parts of China and Indonesia: ''Dàbāo'' (大包, "big bun"), measuring about across, served individually, and usually purchased for take-away. The other type, ''Xiǎobāo'' (小包, "small bun"), measure approximately wide, and are most commonly eaten in restaurants, but may also be purchased for take-away. Each order consists of a steamer containing between three and ten pieces. A small ceramic dish for dipping the baozi is provided for vinegar or soy sauce, both of which are available in bottles at the table, along with various types of chili and garlic pastes, oils or infusions, fresh coriander and leeks, sesame oil, and other flavorings. They are popular throughout China and have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Huy Thiệp
Nguyễn Huy Thiệp (Hanoi, 29 April 1950 – 20 March 2021) was a Vietnamese writer. He has been described as Vietnam's most influential writer. In 1992, before Bảo Ninh (1993) and Dương Thu Hương (1996), he was the first to write a major novel taking the gloss off the " American War" experience. Works * ''“Muối của rừng”'' (The Salt of the Jungle) In 1987 “The Winds of Hua Tat” appeared in Van nghe, a weekly edition of the Vietnamese Writers Association. “The Winds of Hua Tat” was a book of 10 short stories, all of them displaying the real-life society of socialism in Vietnam. Then, in 1988 Van nghe, published three historical short stories, “Sharp Sword”, “Fired Gold” and “Pham tiet” and “Chastity.” All three of these stories used prominent figures in Vietnam’s history to question the previous Marxist leaders. “Fired Gold” is based on the Vietnamese emperor from 1802-1820 Gia Long Gia Long ( (''North''), ('' South''); 8 Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lê Minh Khuê
Lê Minh Khuê (born 6 December 1949, in Tĩnh Gia, Thanh Hoá) is a Vietnamese writer. Her works have been translated into English and several other languages. She was interviewed in Ken Burns's series ''The Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietna ...''. Works Translations: * ''The stars, the earth, the river: short fiction by Le Minh Khue'' translated by Wayne Karlin, Dana Sachs Curbstone Press, 1997"Fourteen stories by a North Vietnamese woman who fought in the Vietnam War as a sapper. The story, The Distant Stars, is on a trio of women serving as sappers. It is one of several stories chronicling experiences in battle." * ''Kleine Tragödien.'' Translated by Joachim Riethmann. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2011 * ''Fragile come un raggio di sole. Racconti dal Vietn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pham Thi Hoai
Phạm Thị Hoài (born 1960 in Gia Lộc, Hải Dương, Vietnam) is an influential contemporary Vietnamese writer, editor and translator, living in Germany. Biography Born in Hải Dương province, Phạm Thị Hoài grew up in North Vietnam. In 1977, she went to former East Berlin to study at Humboldt University, where she earned a degree in Archival Studies. Returning to Vietnam in 1983, she lived in Hanoi where she worked as an archivist and began to write seriously. Her first novel, ''Thiên sứ'' (''The Heavenly Messenger'' and ''The Crystal Messenger'', ), was published in Hanoi in 1988, and was subsequently banned by the Vietnamese government. ''Thiên sứ'' has since been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Finnish. In 1993, the German translation was awarded the annual Frankfurt LiBeraturpreis, awarded for the best foreign novel published in Germany and the English the Dinny O'Hearn Prize for Literary Translation in 2000. In the same y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyen Qui Duc
Nguyen Qui Duc (Nguyễn Quí Đức in Vietnamese) is a Vietnamese American radio broadcaster, writer, editor and translator. Born in Da Lat, Vietnam, he came to the United States in 1975, returning in the fall of 2006 to live in Hanoi, Vietnam. He has been a radio producer and writer since 1979, working for the British Broadcasting Corporation in London and KALW-FM in San Francisco and as a commentator for National Public Radio. He was the host of ''Pacific Time'', KQED-FM Public Radio's national program on Asian and Asian American Affairs, from 2000 to 2006. His essays have been published in ''The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Examiner, The San Jose Mercury News'' and other newspapers. Other essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in ''City Lights Review, Salamander, Zyzzyva, Manoa Journal, Van, Van Hoc'', and ''Hop Luu'', as well as in several anthologies such as ''Under Western Eyes'', ''Watermark'', and ''Veterans of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trần Vũ
Trần Vũ (Saigon 2 October 1962) is a Vietnamese-language writer living in France.Jane Bradley Winston, Leakthina Chan-Pech Ollier ''Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue'' 2001 Page 73 "A second story by a Viet Kieu writer. Tran Vu's "The ..." Vũ arrived in Paris via a boat people camp in the Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ... at the age of seventeen in 1979. His first collection of six novelles was translated into French and published as ''Sous une pluie d'epines'' by Flammarion in 1998. Selected works * Cái Chết Sau Quá Khứ - stories (The Death Behind the Past, California: Hồng Lĩnh, 1993) * Ngôi Nhà Sau Lưng Văn Miếu - stories (The House Behind the Temple of Literature, California: Thời Văn, 1989; Hồng Lĩnh 1994) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Minh Châu (novelist)
Nguyễn Minh Châu ( Quỳnh Lưu, 20 October 1930 – 23 January 1989) was a Vietnamese novelist. Châu is noted for in 1978, in the ''Military Culture'' journal having been one of the first to call for more humanity and realism, and less propaganda in depiction of Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...'s struggle.Andrew Hammond ''Cold War Literature: Writing The Global Conflict'' 2006 Page 127 "In November 1978, the literary journal V?n Ngh? Quan Dzi, printed an essay entitled ''Writing about the War.'' Its author, Nguyễn Minh Châu, an accomplished writer and military veteran, launched a fierce criticism of Vietnamese literature from the war. While he acknowledged that many works written during the conflict aimed to 'contribute to the war ...Nguyễn Minh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasnost
''Glasnost'' (; russian: link=no, гласность, ) has several general and specific meanings – a policy of maximum openness in the activities of state institutions and freedom of information, the inadmissibility of hushing up problems, and so on. It has been used in Russian to mean "openness and transparency" since at least the end of the 18th century. In the Russian Empire of the late-19th century, the term was particularly associated with reforms of the judicial system. Among these were reforms permitting attendance of the press and the public at trials whose verdicts were now to be read aloud. Vladimir Lenin repeatedly emphasized the importance of glasnost as the most important feature of democracy. In the mid-1980s, it was popularised by Mikhail Gorbachev as a political slogan for increased government transparency in the Soviet Union. Historical usage Human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva argues that the word ''glasnost'' has been in the Russian language for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-Modernism
Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by skepticism toward the "grand narratives" of modernism, opposition to epistemic certainty or stability of meaning, and emphasis on ideology as a means of maintaining political power. Claims to objective fact are dismissed as naïve realism, with attention drawn to the conditional nature of knowledge claims within particular historical, political, and cultural discourses. The postmodern outlook is characterized by self-referentiality, epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism; it rejects the "universal validity" of binary oppositions, stable identity, hierarchy, and categorization. Initially emerging from a mode of literary criticism, postmodernism developed in the mid-twentieth century as a rejection of modernism and has been observed ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
