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Book Arts of Ancient Viet Nam

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  • Author : Nancy Tingley
  • Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Arts of Ancient Viet Nam written by Nancy Tingley and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2009 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores Viet Nam's rich heritage, from the Sa Huynh culture (1st millennium B.C.) to art from Hoi An. The authors discuss links between Viet Nam and Indonesia, reflected in the Hindu and Buddhist temples and stone sculptures, and investigate trade in gold and Chinese ceramics with Butuan"--Provided by publisher.

Book Ancient Vietnam

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  • Author : Anne-Valérie Schweyer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9789749863756
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Ancient Vietnam written by Anne-Valérie Schweyer and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Vietnam is one of spectacular confrontations, both cultural and ideological between the world of the Chinese - a world adopted by the ethnic Viet living in the Red river basin - and the Indian world - facets of which are seen in the Cham, whose numerous small kingdoms were strung out all along the coast from north of Hue to south of Phan Rang. This book will firstly present the history of Vietnam from the 6th to 15th centuries, highlighting the clashes between the two major civilisations which are the foundation of modern Vietnam. The second part will deal with the archaeology of the sites which are a testament to this history. Maps, plans and numerous photographs will help us to experience the history of ancient Vietnam both in its early beginnings and its subsequent evolution. Traces the history of Vietnam from its early beginnings to the emergence of the Cham civilisation and beyond Explores numerous archaeological sites and monuments In-depth research by a world renowned scholar Includes maps and plans of important archaeological and historical sites 300 colour photographs

Book The Cham of Vietnam

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  • Author : Tran Ky Phuong
  • Publisher : NUS Press
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 997169459X
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book The Cham of Vietnam written by Tran Ky Phuong and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. Written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, art history, and linguistics, these essays reassess the ways that the Cham have been studied.

Book The Origins of Ancient Vietnam

Download or read book The Origins of Ancient Vietnam written by Nam C. Kim and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization and Religion in Ancient Central Mexico examines the ways in which urbanization and religion intersected in pre-Columbian central Mexico. It provides a materially informed history of religion and an archaeology of cities that considers religion as a generative force in societal change.

Book A History of the Vietnamese

Download or read book A History of the Vietnamese written by K. W. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Vietnam prior to the nineteenth century is rarely examined in any detail. In this groundbreaking work, K. W. Taylor takes up this challenge, addressing a wide array of topics from the earliest times to the present day - including language, literature, religion, and warfare - and themes - including Sino-Vietnamese relations, the interactions of the peoples of different regions within the country, and the various forms of government adopted by the Vietnamese throughout their history. A History of the Vietnamese is based on primary source materials, combining a comprehensive narrative with an analysis which endeavours to see the Vietnamese past through the eyes of those who lived it. Taylor questions long-standing stereotypes and clichés about Vietnam, drawing attention to sharp discontinuities in the Vietnamese past. Fluently written and accessible to all readers, this highly original contribution to the study of Southeast Asia is a landmark text for all students and scholars of Vietnam.

Book Viet Nam

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  • Author : Ben Kiernan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-02-17
  • ISBN : 0190627298
  • Pages : 657 pages

Download or read book Viet Nam written by Ben Kiernan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich history of the peoples who have inhabited the land now known as Viet Nam over the past three thousand years. Despite the tragedies of the American-Vietnamese conflict, Viet Nam has always been much more than a war. Its long history had been characterized by the frequent rise and fall of different political formations, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to divided regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics. In addition to dramatic political transformations, the region has been shaped by its environment, changing climate, and the critical importance of water, with rivers, deltas, and a long coastline facilitating agricultural patterns, trade, and communications. Kiernan weaves together the many narrative strands of Viet Nam's multi-ethnic populations, including the Chams, Khmers, and Vietnamese, and its multi-religious heritage, from local spirit cults to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Catholicism. He emphasizes the peoples' interactions over the millennia with foreigners, particularly their neighbors in China and Southeast Asia, in engagements ranging from military conflict to linguistic and cultural influences. He sets the tumultuous modern period--marked by French and Japanese occupation, anticolonial nationalism, the American-Vietnamese war, and communist victory--against the continuities evident in the deeper history of the people's relationships with the lands where they have lived. In contemporary times, he explores this one-party state's transformation into a global trading nation, the country's tense diplomatic relationship with China and developing partnership with the United States in maintaining Southeast Asia's regional security, and its uncertain prospects for democracy. Written by a leading scholar of Southeast Asia, Viet Nam presents an authoritative history of an ancient land.

Book Viet Nam

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  • Author : Hữu Ngọc
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2016-08-15
  • ISBN : 0896804933
  • Pages : 523 pages

Download or read book Viet Nam written by Hữu Ngọc and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for Việt Nam News, Hà Nội’s English-language newspaper, Hữu Ngọc charmed and invigorated an international readership hungry for straightforward but elegant entrees into understanding Vietnamese culture. The essays were originally collected in the massive Wandering through Vietnamese Culture. With Viet Nam: Tradition and Change, Ohio University Press presents a selection from these many treasures, which are perfectly suited to students of Vietnamese culture and travelers seeking an introduction to the country’s rich history, culture, and daily life. With extraordinary linguistic ability and a prodigious memory, Hữu Ngọc is among Việt Nam’s keenest observers of and writers about traditional Vietnamese culture and recent history. The author’s central theme—that all tradition is change through acculturation—twines through each of the book’s ten sections, which contain Hữu Ngọc’s ideas on Vietnamese religion, literature, history, exemplary figures, and more. Taken on its own, each brief essay is an engaging discussion of key elements of Vietnamese culture and the history of an issue confronting Việt Nam today.

Book The A to Z of Vietnam

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  • Author : Bruce M. Lockhart
  • Publisher : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 2010-04-14
  • ISBN : 1461731925
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book The A to Z of Vietnam written by Bruce M. Lockhart and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam became part of French Indochina in 1887 and did not regain its independence again until after the Vietnam War. However, despite a relatively peaceful two decades the country experienced little economic growth because of conservative leadership policies. In an effort to change this stagnation, Vietnamese authorities have committed to economic liberalization and enacted structural reforms needed to modernize the economy and to produce more competitive, export-driven industries. The A to Z of Vietnam focuses on the recent changes and leadership of Vietnam while giving due attention to the earlier kingdoms, the period of French Indochina, the wars for liberation, the Vietnam War, and much more. Hundreds of cross-referenced A to Z dictionary entries are included on political, economic, social and cultural aspects as well as the major cities and geographic features. This book also contains a chronology and introduction that traces Vietnam's history, as well as a bibliography.

Book Artists Respond

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  • Author : Melissa Ho
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-04-02
  • ISBN : 0691191182
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Artists Respond written by Melissa Ho and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, March 15, 2019 to August 18, 2019."

Book Mountains in the Sea

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  • Author : Văn Lít Phan
  • Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780881925159
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Mountains in the Sea written by Văn Lít Phan and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a scenic landscape in miniature as Vietnamese people have done for hundreds of years, an art form akin to the more familiar art of bonsai.

Book Wartorn Heart

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  • Author : Kathleen Trew Swazuk
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-11-11
  • ISBN : 9781320206204
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Wartorn Heart written by Kathleen Trew Swazuk and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Trew Swazuk was 19 years old and a junior in nursing school when she joined the Army Student Nurse Program. Two years later she was in Vietnam, seeing and experiencing the horrors of war. She hid the memories and her pain of that time in the poems in this book, which have been lovingly illustrated by artists in a variety of mediums.

Book Cham Sculptures from Vi   t Nam and Their Interface with Indian Art

Download or read book Cham Sculptures from Vi t Nam and Their Interface with Indian Art written by Anupa Pande and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book      i Vi   t and Champa  Panduranga  Kauthara  and Indrapura

Download or read book i Vi t and Champa Panduranga Kauthara and Indrapura written by Tan Pham and published by 315Kio Publishing. This book was released on 2024-11-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most travellers to Vietnam will, at some point, visit a Cham tower or view some Cham artefacts in a museum. These were left behind by the Cham people of the now-vanished kingdom of Champa. They are unique, exquisite and mythical. The people who built and carved these beautiful works once inhabited central Vietnam and the northern part of the south, which stretches over 1,000 kilometres from north to south. Today, with a population of less than 200,000, the Chams live primarily in Ninh Thuận, Bình Thuận and other provinces in the Mekong Delta. Champa’s history is broadly divided into three eras: the First Era (5th to 10th centuries), the Second (10th to 15th centuries) and the Third (15th to 19th centuries). This book deals with the First Era, including the three great Houses of Gaṅgārāja, Vicitrasagara and Ujora at three locations. The first house is associated with Simhapura, modern Trà Kiệu in Quảng Nam province. The second house is connected with Virapura and Po Nagar in Panduranga and Kauthara, present-day Ninh Thuận, Bình Thuận and Khánh Hòa provinces. The third house is linked with Indrapura, Đồng Dương Monastery in Quảng Nam province. The book also presents an overview of Champa, a description of the Cham tower and maps of Cham ruins in Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên-Huế provinces. To collect materials for this volume, the author visited most of the sites mentioned in the book and referred to Cham inscriptions, Chinese and Vietnamese historical works. Dr. Anne-Valérie Schweyer, the Research Director at CNRS (The French National Centre for Scientific Research), an epigraphist and a world-leading scholar in Champa studies, commented and wrote the foreword for the book. She concludes, “Through his travels, Tan Pham unravels the history and art of the Cham kingdoms from the time of their creation to their apogee, while at the same time making their present-day presence visible. It is a great pleasure to follow in his footsteps, which lead to a better understanding of a glorious part of Việt Nam's history.” This book is Volume 3B of the book series, A Traveller’s Story of Vietnam’s Past; it continues where Volume II, One Thousand Years - The Stories of Giao Châu, the Kingdoms of Linyi, Funan and Zhenla, ends. The book has 384 pages and contains 235 figures and illustrations. A shortened Table of Contents is shown below. Chapter 1 – A summary of this book Chapter 2 – A general overview of Champa 2.1 - The land and its people 2.2 - A trip to the past 2.3 - Champa and Đại Việt (10th to 15th centuries) 2.4 - Champa and the Khmer Empire (10th to 15th centuries) 2.5 - The religions of Champa 2.6 - A tour of Champa Chapter 3 – The towers of Champa 3.1 - The design of a Cham tower 3.2 - The bricks and the resin adhesive 3.3 - Champa deities and icons Chapter 4 – Panduranga – Land of the gods and vineyards, the House of Vicitrasagara – Champa (8th to 9th centuries) Chapter 5 – Po Nagar (Mother of the Land) Temple Chapter 6 – Indrapura, the House of Uroja – Champa (9th to 10th centuries) Chapter 7 – Indrapura and Buddhist Monasteries 7.1 - Indrapura and Buddhism 7.2 - The Đồng Dương Buddhist Monastery Chapter 8 – The Cham ruins and artefacts of Quảng Bình province Chapter 9 – The Cham ruins and artefacts of Quảng Trị province Chapter 10 – The Cham ruins and artefacts of Thừa Thiên-Huế province Chapter 11 – Conclusion Appendix 1 – Wuli, Chiêm Động, Ulik and other names of places in Champa Biography

Book One Thousand Years   The Stories of Giao Ch  u  the Kingdoms of Linyi  Funan and Zhenla

Download or read book One Thousand Years The Stories of Giao Ch u the Kingdoms of Linyi Funan and Zhenla written by Tan Pham and published by 315Kio Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Vietnam War, the country was divided at the 17th parallel. About 140 kilometres north of this dividing line is a mountain pass called Ngang pass. The land south of this pass, about 60 per cent of present-day Vietnam, was occupied for centuries by the kingdoms of Linyi, Funan and Zhenla. But most people either have not heard of them or have only vague ideas about them. This book is about these kingdoms. North of Ngang pass, Giao Châu, was ruled by northern dynasties for over a thousand years from the 2nd century BCE to the 10th century CE, barring a few intervals of independence. This volume also tells how the people of Giao Châu came out of this long period to become an independent nation and why they did not want to become part of dynastic China. This is Volume II of the book series, “A Traveller’s Story of Vietnam’s Past”; it continues where Volume I, “The Bronze Drums and The Earrings”, ends. The book contains 73 figures and illustrations. It tells the stories of familiar Vietnamese heroes like the Trưng sisters, Lady Triệu, the Black Emperor and Ngô Quyền. It also discusses the beginning of Buddhism in Vietnam and the stories of Shi Xie’s clan. The stories of Linyi’s kings and how the bloodthirsty Fan Wen and his successors prevented the Northern Dynasties from going beyond the Ngang pass are also explained. The expansion of the Funan territory from southern Vietnam to the Malay Peninsula by Fan Shiman is included. The little-known Nanzhao-An Nam War is also told with some details. The battle of the Bạch Đằng river in 938, when Giao Châu (Vietnam) gained independence, is recounted. Like Volume I, many places associated with historical events are also described in the book, including the sanctuary of Mỹ Sơn and its donation by King Bhavavarman. Chapter 1 – A summary of this book Chapter 2 – Under the Han - Giao Châu I Chapter 3 – Shi Xie and the beginning of Buddhism in Vietnam - Lady Triệu rebellion - Giao Châu II Chapter 4 – A forest town - the kingdom of Linyi and the Fans - A Generation of Raiders - Linyi I Chapter 5 – One hundred years of raids and plunders (336 to 446) - Linyi II Chapter 6 – The end of Linyi - Linyi III Chapter 7 – The inscriptions and the Varman’s - Linyi IV Chapter 8 – The Roman medals and the Óc Eo culture - Funan/Zhenla I Chapter 9 – The Kingdoms of Funan and Zhenla - Funan/Zhenla II Chapter 10 ̶ Pre-Angkor Inscriptions and three Khmer towers - Funan/Zhenla III Chapter 11 – Ten thousand springs or Vạn Xuân (542-602) - Giao Châu III Chapter 12 – The Black Emperor - The Great Father and Mother King or Bố Cái Đại Vương - Giao Châu IV Chapter 13 – Surrounded by rivers - A city of lakes: Hanoi, a nation capital - Giao Châu V Chapter 14 – The Nanzhao-An Nam war - Giao Châu VI Chapter 15 – Prelude to independence - Giao Châu VII Chapter 16 – The Dawn of Independence - Giao Châu VIII Chapter 17 – Conclusions Appendix 1 – Sources of Vietnamese history in the Chinese language used in this book Appendix 2 – Sources of Vietnamese history by Vietnamese authors written before the 19th century Appendix 3 – Names in Pinyin Chinese, English, and Vietnamese Appendix 4 – Polities under the Northern Rule period Appendix 5 – Giao Chỉ (Jiaozhi), Giao Châu (Jiaozhou), Luy Lâu (Leilou) and Long Biên (Longbian) Appendix 6 – List of Governors, Prefects etc. Appendix 7 – In Search of ancient Hanoi Appendix 8 – Ma Yuan’s expeditions Appendix 9 – The Kings of Linyi Appendix 10 ̶ The Kings of Funan and Zhenla Appendix 11 – The land that was Linyi Appendix 12 – Citadels of blood and gold Appendix 13 – An eyewitness account of the Nanzhao-An Nam war Appendix 14 – The population question Appendix 15 – Of li, bu, chi, liang, and jin Appendix 16 – Museums in Southern Vietnam Bibliography

Book The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia written by C.F.W. Higham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast Asia ranks among the most significant regions in the world for tracing the prehistory of human endeavor over a period in excess of two million years. It lies in the direct path of successive migrations from the African homeland that saw settlement by hominin populations such as Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis. The first Anatomically Modern Humans, following a coastal route, reached the region at least 60,000 years ago to establish a hunter gatherer tradition that survives to this day in remote forests. From about 2000 BC, human settlement of Southeast Asia was deeply affected by successive innovations that took place to the north and west, such as rice and millet farming. A millennium later, knowledge of bronze casting penetrated along the same pathways. Copper mines were identified and exploited, and metals were exchanged over hundreds of kilometers. In the Mekong Delta and elsewhere, these developments led to early states of the region, which benefitted from an agricultural revolution involving permanent ploughed rice fields. These developments illuminate how the great early kingdoms of Angkor, Champa, and Funan came to be, a vital stage in understanding the roots of the present nation states of Southeast Asia. Assembling the most current research across a variety of disciplines--from anthropology and archaeology to history, art history, and linguistics--The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia will present an invaluable resource to experienced researchers and those approaching the topic for the first time.

Book Art Workers

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  • Author : Julia Bryan-Wilson
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0520269756
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Art Workers written by Julia Bryan-Wilson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From artists to art workers -- Carl Andre's work ethic -- Robert Morris's art strike -- Lucy Lippard's feminist labor -- Hans Haacke's paperwork.

Book Lost Kingdoms  Hindu Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia

Download or read book Lost Kingdoms Hindu Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia written by Guy, John and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and exciting exploration of Southeast Asian history from the 5th to 9th century, seen through the lens of the region's sculpture