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Janet Hong (Korean: 홍지명) is a writer and translator of Korean literature based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She has translated numerous works of fiction, essays, and graphic novels such as Keum Suk Gendry-Kim 's Grass.
The second is a dharma name, given when a person takes vows or is ordained as a monastic. Nhất Hạnh's dharma name is Phùng Xuân (逢春, "Meeting Spring") and his dharma title is Nhất Hạnh. [17] Neither Nhất nor Hạnh , which approximate the roles of middle name and given name, was part of his name at birth.
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 ...