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Short stories by K.W. Taylor. Twenty-nine tales of science fiction,
fantasy, horror, fairytale, steampunk, time travel, and more.
Essays that demonstrate ways to "read" the pasts of Vietnam through
detailed analyses of its art, chronicles, legends, documents, and
monuments. The book's many voices undermine the idea of a single
Vietnamese past. All the essays, while varied, are connected by
their common concerns with language and text.
The Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified
entity throughout the two decades (1955-75) during which the United
States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that
time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism to chaos
to a relatively stable experiment in parliamentary democracy. The
stereotype of South Vietnam that appears in most writings, both
academic and popular, focuses on the first two periods to portray a
caricature of a corrupt, unstable dictatorship and ignores what was
achieved during the last eight years. The essays in Voices from the
Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967-1975) come from those who
strove to build a constitutional structure of representative
government during a war for survival with a totalitarian state.
Those committed to realizing a noncommunist Vietnamese future
placed their hopes in the Second Republic, fought for it, and
worked for its success. This book is a step in making their stories
known.
The "Kim Van Kieu" of Nguyen Du, written in the early nineteenth
century and commonly considered to be a defining masterpiece of
Vietnamese literature, is the story of an educated and beautiful
young woman who suffers misfortune and degradation before obtaining
justice and peace. It is a long poem in a complex metric and rhyme
scheme that is distinctively Vietnamese. Vladislav Zhukov here
provides the first English-language translation, perfectly
conveying the poetic form of the original work and thereby
producing a literary creation in English that is equivalent to
Nguyen Du's genius in Vietnamese one that can be appreciated as
poetry in English."
This volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam
to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators
with different interests who are viewing different parts of Vietnam
at an early stage of European involvement in the region.
Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of
Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It
features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and
book reviews. Published Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program
since April 1966, the journal provides area scholars and interested
readers with contemporary analysis of Indonesia and an extensive
archive of research pertaining to the nation and region. Currently,
only back issues of Indonesia are available for purchase through
Cornell University Press's website.
The Republic of (South) Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified
entity throughout the two decades (1955-75) during which the United
States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that
time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism to chaos
to a relatively stable experiment in parliamentary democracy. The
stereotype of South Vietnam that appears in most writings, both
academic and popular, focuses on the first two periods to portray a
caricature of a corrupt, unstable dictatorship and ignores what was
achieved during the last eight years. The essays in Voices from the
Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967-1975) come from those who
strove to build a constitutional structure of representative
government during a war for survival with a totalitarian state.
Those committed to realizing a noncommunist Vietnamese future
placed their hopes in the Second Republic, fought for it, and
worked for its success. This book is a step in making their stories
known.
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 cliches 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.
The "Kim Van Kieu" of Nguyen Du, written in the early nineteenth
century and commonly considered to be a defining masterpiece of
Vietnamese literature, is the story of an educated and beautiful
young woman who suffers misfortune and degradation before obtaining
justice and peace. It is a long poem in a complex metric and rhyme
scheme that is distinctively Vietnamese. Vladislav Zhukov here
provides the first English-language translation, perfectly
conveying the poetic form of the original work and thereby
producing a literary creation in English that is equivalent to
Nguyen Du's genius in Vietnamese one that can be appreciated as
poetry in English."
This volume introduces two of the earliest writings about Vietnam
to appear in the English language. The reports come from narrators
with different interests who are viewing different parts of Vietnam
at an early stage of European involvement in the region.
This 1750 text, written by a Catholic missionary in Tonkin, is
the earliest known systematic first-hand account of Vietnamese
religious practice, including chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism,
the worship of spirits, magicians, fortune tellers and diviners,
and Christianity in the region. It was recently discovered in a
Paris archive and will be of interest to a broad array of scholars.
Includes a facsimile of the original manuscript.
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 cliches 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.
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