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Nguyen Xuan Huy
Borrowing liberally from art history, Vietnamese painter Nguyen Xuan Huy (born 1976) manipulates a Pop aesthetic to confront the traumatic legacy of the Vietnam War, specifically the birth defects caused by Agent Orange. The bodies that compose his haunting figurative tableaux are distorted yet graceful, humiliated yet strong--apt metaphors for a nation still in recovery.
New Perceptions of the Vietnam War
The effects of the War outside present-day Vietnam are ongoing. Substantial Vietnamese communities in countries that participated in the conflict are contributing to renewed interpretations of it. This collection of new essays explores changes in perceptions of the war and the Vietnamese diaspora, examining history, politics, biography and literature, with Vietnamese, American, Australian and French scholars providing new insights. Twelve essays cover South Vietnamese leadership and policies, women and civilians, veterans overseas, smaller allies in the war (Australia), accounts by U.S., Australian and South Vietnamese servicemen as well as those of Indigenous soldiers from the U.S. and Australia, memorials and commemorations, and the legacy of war on individual lives and government policy.
The General Retires and Other Stories
When it first appeared in 1987, the title story of this collection of stories by Nguyen Huy Thiep caused a sensation in Vietnam. Not since the Communist revolution had readers found as stark and compelling a view of their world as The General Retires offered them. Written in spare, succinct prose, it captures the despair of an old general who, after many years of devoted service to his country, is alienated by the emptiness of the society into which he retires and ultimately flees. Nguyen probes similar themes in the stories that follow, from Cun, the moving tale of a crippled beggar, to A Drop of Blood, a dark history of a family set against decades of war and revolution. With eight powerfully written stories--all available in English for the first time--and including an introduction by Greg Lockhart that traces the varied traditions of Vietnamese literature to the present day, this collection offers unprecedented insight into a society trying to overcome and understand years of pain and civil strife.
The Rose Has Its Own Thorns
Ha and Phuong are best friends in high school. But they took different paths in life after college and both are successful. One day, Phuong found out Ha was having an affair with her husband. After the divorce, Phuong tried really hard to move on and she found a new love in her life, Hoa, but she did not know whether she should be in love with him or not because he was younger than her. With Ha, she had her own problem with her life where her husband's family was strict with her and her husband and her mother-in-law hated her. It led her to have an affair with Adam, Phuong's husband, who Ha truly loved. Two women with different stories, they both had struggles in their lives and this is their story.
Ho Chi Minh
This biography focuses on Ho's early political career, from his emergence at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, to his organisation of the Viet Minh United Front at the start of the Second World War. Using previously untapped sources from Comintern and French intelligence archives, Sophie Quinn-Judge examines Ho's life in the light of two interconnecting themes - the origins and institutional development of the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) and the impact on early Vietnamese communism of political developments in China and the Soviet Union.
Artificial Intelligence in Data and Big Data Processing
The book presents studies related to artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications to process and analyze data and big data to create machines or software that can better understand business behavior, industry activities, and human health. The studies were presented at “The 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Digital Era” (ICABDE 2021), which was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during December 18-19, 2021. The studies are pointing toward the famous slogan in technology “Make everything smarter,” i.e., creating machines that can understand and can communicate with humans, and they must act like humans in different aspects such as vision, communication, thinking, feeling, and acting. “A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human” —Alan Turing
The 12th Conference on Information Technology and Its Applications
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Conference on Information Technology and its Applications, CITA 2023, taking place on July 28-29, 2023 in Da Nang City, the most beautiful and livable city in Vietnam. CITA is an annual scientific conference on information technology and its applications in all fields. The main objective of the conference is to create a forum to gather and connect Vietnamese and international researchers, scientists in the fields of information technology and its applications. The book includes 33 papers, selected from 144 papers submitted to CITA 2023 whose authors come from over 20 countries around the world, which were carefully reviewed by at lea...
Intelligent Systems and Networks
This book presents Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks (ICISN 2022), held at Hanoi in Vietnam. It includes peer reviewed high quality articles on Intelligent System and Networks. It brings together professionals and researchers in the area and presents a platform for exchange of ideas and to foster future collaboration. The topics covered in this book include- Foundations of Computer Science; Computational Intelligence Language and speech processing; Software Engineering Software development methods; Wireless Communications Signal Processing for Communications; Electronics track IoT and Sensor Systems Embedded Systems; etc.
Cult, Culture, and Authority
Princess Liễu Hạnh, often called the Mother of the Vietnamese people by her followers, is one of the most prominent goddesses in Vietnamese popular religion. First emerging some four centuries ago as a local sect appealing to women, the princess’ cult has since transcended its geographical and gender boundaries and remains vibrant today. Who was this revered deity? Was she a virtuous woman or a prostitute? Why did people begin worshiping her and why have they continued? Cult, Culture, and Authority traces Liễu Hạnh’s cult from its ostensible appearance in the sixteenth century to its present-day prominence in North Vietnam and considers it from a broad range of perspectives, as r...
