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Nguyễn dynasty officials wearing formal clothing during Lễ tế Nam Giao. Vietnamese clothing is the traditional style of clothing worn in Vietnam by the Vietnamese people. The traditional style has both indigenous and foreign elements due to the diverse cultural exchanges during the history of Vietnam. This all eventually led to the birth ...
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Instrument (s) Guitar. Years active. 1958–2001. Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet. [1] [2] He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter. His music explores themes of love, loss, and anti-war sentiments during the Vietnam War ...
The Tây Sơn dynasty ( Vietnamese: [təj ʂəːn], Vietnamese: Nhà Tây Sơn, Chữ Nôm: 茹西山, lit. 'House of Tây Sơn'; Vietnamese: triều Tây Sơn ( chữ Hán: 朝西山), officially Đại Việt ( Chữ Hán: 大越), was a dynasty of Vietnam. It was founded after three Nguyễn brothers from the village of Tây Sơn rebelled ...
Lý Thường Kiệt ( 李 常 傑; 1019–1105), real name Ngô Tuấn ( 吳 俊 ), was a Vietnamese general and admiral of the Lý dynasty. [ 1] He served as an official through the reign of Lý Thái Tông, Lý Thánh Tông and Lý Nhân Tông and was a general during the Song–Lý War. In Vietnamese history, he helped invade Champa (1069 ...
The Ministry of Industry and Trade ( MOIT, Vietnamese: Bộ Công thương) is the government ministry in Vietnam responsible for the advancement, promotion, governance, regulation, management and growth of industry and trade. The former Ministry of Trade has its origins in 1945 with the formation of the modern National Unification Cabinet, and ...
Khiem's oracular poetry has been compared to that of Nostradamus. It contains the earliest known use of the word "Vietnam." Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm ( chữ Hán: 阮 秉 謙; 1491–1585) was a Vietnamese administrator, confucianist, poet, prophet and later a saint of the Cao Dai religion and of the new religious movement known as School of ...
Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Thanh Nguyen ( Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [ a]) is a Vietnamese-American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. [ 3][ 4]
The Viet Cong [nb 1] was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.Formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam [nb 2] and nominally conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV), the movement fought under the direction of North Vietnam ...