Viet Nam letters
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We draw attention to works occasioned by the nation of Viet Nam.
This February 2025 the SRVN sentenced the journalist, already incarcerated, to 30 months. Huy Đức is not a virus but his government has put him in quarantine.
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Interview with Trương Huy San (Huy Đức) (i)
from Nguyễn Nguyệt Cầm, Peter Zinoman, and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies
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August 7, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This February 2025 the SRVN sentenced the journalist, already incarcerated, to 30 months. Huy Đức is not a virus but his government has put him in quarantine.
Read all about it.
Read all about it.
You are reading this sentence in letters with serifs, squiggles at their ends. This particular serif font is Times New Roman.
The English-speaking world read about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Paris peace talks in that serif font.
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The English-speaking world read about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Paris peace talks in that serif font.
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The Rabbi (ii) in Free Fire Zone (ix) sans serif
from Barney Currer and 1st Casualty Press
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July 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
You are reading this sentence in letters with serifs, squiggles at their ends. This particular serif font is Times New Roman.
The English-speaking world read about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Paris peace talks in that serif font.
Read all about it.
The English-speaking world read about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Paris peace talks in that serif font.
Read all about it.
"The building and neighborhood has washed away. Her landlord fishes from the rubble. All he wants to catch, he tells her, is the smell."
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#doimoi #QuangVanNguyen #Renovation #RomandelaRose #JourneytotheWest #FourthUncleintheMountain
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#doimoi #QuangVanNguyen #Renovation #RomandelaRose #JourneytotheWest #FourthUncleintheMountain
The Renovation (viii)
from Do Hoang Ngoc Anh and đổi mới
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June 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
"The building and neighborhood has washed away. Her landlord fishes from the rubble. All he wants to catch, he tells her, is the smell."
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#doimoi #QuangVanNguyen #Renovation #RomandelaRose #JourneytotheWest #FourthUncleintheMountain
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#doimoi #QuangVanNguyen #Renovation #RomandelaRose #JourneytotheWest #FourthUncleintheMountain
Al Pacino. Dog Day Afternoon, 1975. Right?
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#StCrispinsEve #HaroldBloom #PeoplesArmyofVietNam #DawsonsWar #StudiesandObservationsGroup #BKMarshall #SirJohnFalstaff #DogDayAfternoon #AlPacino #ReconClub #weakmisreading #Agincourt #UnitedStatesSpecialForces #strongmisreading
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#StCrispinsEve #HaroldBloom #PeoplesArmyofVietNam #DawsonsWar #StudiesandObservationsGroup #BKMarshall #SirJohnFalstaff #DogDayAfternoon #AlPacino #ReconClub #weakmisreading #Agincourt #UnitedStatesSpecialForces #strongmisreading
We Few (ii)
from Nick Brokhausen at the Studies and Observations Group
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June 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Al Pacino. Dog Day Afternoon, 1975. Right?
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#StCrispinsEve #HaroldBloom #PeoplesArmyofVietNam #DawsonsWar #StudiesandObservationsGroup #BKMarshall #SirJohnFalstaff #DogDayAfternoon #AlPacino #ReconClub #weakmisreading #Agincourt #UnitedStatesSpecialForces #strongmisreading
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#StCrispinsEve #HaroldBloom #PeoplesArmyofVietNam #DawsonsWar #StudiesandObservationsGroup #BKMarshall #SirJohnFalstaff #DogDayAfternoon #AlPacino #ReconClub #weakmisreading #Agincourt #UnitedStatesSpecialForces #strongmisreading
“Today, a third generation of Vietnamese Americans is entering elementary school. For these children, the Viet Nam War and their grandparents’ experience are things they know very little or nothing about.”
Today. 2011.
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#Classof1945Library #VietNamWar #VietnameseAmericans #South
Today. 2011.
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#Classof1945Library #VietNamWar #VietnameseAmericans #South
This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature (iv)
from critic Isabelle Thuy Pelaud and ethnic studies
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June 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Today, a third generation of Vietnamese Americans is entering elementary school. For these children, the Viet Nam War and their grandparents’ experience are things they know very little or nothing about.”
Today. 2011.
Read all about it.
#Classof1945Library #VietNamWar #VietnameseAmericans #South
Today. 2011.
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#Classof1945Library #VietNamWar #VietnameseAmericans #South
It is something we used to say in the middle of last century.
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#UnitedStatesArmy #PeoplesArmyofVietNam #Connecticut #Woodbridge #UnionofSouthAfrica #Massachusetts #NewHaven #SouthBoston
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#UnitedStatesArmy #PeoplesArmyofVietNam #Connecticut #Woodbridge #UnionofSouthAfrica #Massachusetts #NewHaven #SouthBoston
One of My Best Friends (ii)
from poet David Connolly at Viet Nam Generation Journal 4:3-4
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June 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It is something we used to say in the middle of last century.
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#UnitedStatesArmy #PeoplesArmyofVietNam #Connecticut #Woodbridge #UnionofSouthAfrica #Massachusetts #NewHaven #SouthBoston
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#UnitedStatesArmy #PeoplesArmyofVietNam #Connecticut #Woodbridge #UnionofSouthAfrica #Massachusetts #NewHaven #SouthBoston
"Nathan tossed and turned on the hard lower bunk of his sleeper-class room."
First paragraph, first chapter. Our hero Nathan Monroe is neurotic. He cannot sit still and be happy.
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#Bildung #Hanoi #Touteunehistoire #đổimới #doimoi #Phứctạpquárồi #Saigon #lacquerpainting
First paragraph, first chapter. Our hero Nathan Monroe is neurotic. He cannot sit still and be happy.
Read all about it.
#Bildung #Hanoi #Touteunehistoire #đổimới #doimoi #Phứctạpquárồi #Saigon #lacquerpainting
Lotusland (iii)
From novelist David Joiner after đổi mới
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June 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"Nathan tossed and turned on the hard lower bunk of his sleeper-class room."
First paragraph, first chapter. Our hero Nathan Monroe is neurotic. He cannot sit still and be happy.
Read all about it.
#Bildung #Hanoi #Touteunehistoire #đổimới #doimoi #Phứctạpquárồi #Saigon #lacquerpainting
First paragraph, first chapter. Our hero Nathan Monroe is neurotic. He cannot sit still and be happy.
Read all about it.
#Bildung #Hanoi #Touteunehistoire #đổimới #doimoi #Phứctạpquárồi #Saigon #lacquerpainting
“Nathan Monroe is a 28-year-old American living in Saigon who falls in love with a poor but talented Vietnamese painter.”
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#đổimới #doimoi #Unification #LeLyHaslip
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#đổimới #doimoi #Unification #LeLyHaslip
Lotusland (ii)
from novelist David Joiner after đổi mới
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June 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“Nathan Monroe is a 28-year-old American living in Saigon who falls in love with a poor but talented Vietnamese painter.”
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#đổimới #doimoi #Unification #LeLyHaslip
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#đổimới #doimoi #Unification #LeLyHaslip
"Lotusland"
A brief stop on the Odyssey home from the war. Hence, expatriate life.
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#Odyssey #expatriate #HouseofDavid #Guernica #PabloPicasso
A brief stop on the Odyssey home from the war. Hence, expatriate life.
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#Odyssey #expatriate #HouseofDavid #Guernica #PabloPicasso
Lotusland (i)
from novelist David Joiner and Guernica Editions
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June 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"Lotusland"
A brief stop on the Odyssey home from the war. Hence, expatriate life.
Read all about it.
#Odyssey #expatriate #HouseofDavid #Guernica #PabloPicasso
A brief stop on the Odyssey home from the war. Hence, expatriate life.
Read all about it.
#Odyssey #expatriate #HouseofDavid #Guernica #PabloPicasso
How do you study silly bullshit? Philip Taylor prefaces his Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam with the remark, “This work is an ethnographic account of pilgrimages and popular religion in Vietnam.”
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#ethnography #BàChúaXứ #LadyBorton
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#ethnography #BàChúaXứ #LadyBorton
Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam (ii)
from anthropologist Philip Taylor and Vietnamese studies
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June 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
How do you study silly bullshit? Philip Taylor prefaces his Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam with the remark, “This work is an ethnographic account of pilgrimages and popular religion in Vietnam.”
Read all about it.
#ethnography #BàChúaXứ #LadyBorton
Read all about it.
#ethnography #BàChúaXứ #LadyBorton
"I dislike that table of contents. Centered. Why? Because no one intended a reader to use it? As there also is no index by place visited in this travelogue?"
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#SevenStoriesPress
Read all about it.
#SevenStoriesPress
Postcards from the End of America (iii)
from poet Linh Dinh and Seven Stories Press
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June 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"I dislike that table of contents. Centered. Why? Because no one intended a reader to use it? As there also is no index by place visited in this travelogue?"
Read all about it.
#SevenStoriesPress
Read all about it.
#SevenStoriesPress
I knew Chris at the turn of the century in Paris, an attic of the Indochinese past, where antiquarians and connoisseurs like ourselves have passed books and ideas around over 2 hundred years.
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#Annam #Nguyendynasty #Cochinchina #Cochinchine #Saigon #Tonkin #Vietnamesehistory
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#Annam #Nguyendynasty #Cochinchina #Cochinchine #Saigon #Tonkin #Vietnamesehistory
Vietnam: A New History (iv)
from Christopher Goscha and Vietnamese studies
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June 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I knew Chris at the turn of the century in Paris, an attic of the Indochinese past, where antiquarians and connoisseurs like ourselves have passed books and ideas around over 2 hundred years.
Read all about it.
#Annam #Nguyendynasty #Cochinchina #Cochinchine #Saigon #Tonkin #Vietnamesehistory
Read all about it.
#Annam #Nguyendynasty #Cochinchina #Cochinchine #Saigon #Tonkin #Vietnamesehistory
I clean up around here. The chair, the president, the editor, the clerical staff, security, they are volunteers. They do what they can when they have a minute.
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#VietNamletters
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#VietNamletters
Viet Nam letters (iii)
from the janitor at the Viet Nam Literature Project
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June 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I clean up around here. The chair, the president, the editor, the clerical staff, security, they are volunteers. They do what they can when they have a minute.
Read all about us.
#VietNamletters
Read all about us.
#VietNamletters
Where is a Vietnamese translation of Henry V when you need it? Harry’s harangue to his men on Crispin’s eve at Agincourt performs both meanings of we in Vietnamese.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
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#StudiesandObservationsGroup
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
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#StudiesandObservationsGroup
We Few (i)
from Nick Brokhausen at the Studies and Observations Group
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June 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Where is a Vietnamese translation of Henry V when you need it? Harry’s harangue to his men on Crispin’s eve at Agincourt performs both meanings of we in Vietnamese.
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
Read all about it.
#StudiesandObservationsGroup
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
Read all about it.
#StudiesandObservationsGroup
Underdog Nation (i)
from Quang X. Pham and Forbes Books
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June 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
3–15. Soldier's Medal
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#LastManStanding #Soldier'sMedal #JackOlsen #GeronimoPratt #ColinPowell #ElmerGerardPratt #GlennAndreotta #LawrenceCoburn #HughThompson #BlackPantherParty
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#LastManStanding #Soldier'sMedal #JackOlsen #GeronimoPratt #ColinPowell #ElmerGerardPratt #GlennAndreotta #LawrenceCoburn #HughThompson #BlackPantherParty
Last Man Standing (i)
from true-crime author Jack Olsen about the soldier and prisoner Geronimo Pratt
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May 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
3–15. Soldier's Medal
Read all about it.
#LastManStanding #Soldier'sMedal #JackOlsen #GeronimoPratt #ColinPowell #ElmerGerardPratt #GlennAndreotta #LawrenceCoburn #HughThompson #BlackPantherParty
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#LastManStanding #Soldier'sMedal #JackOlsen #GeronimoPratt #ColinPowell #ElmerGerardPratt #GlennAndreotta #LawrenceCoburn #HughThompson #BlackPantherParty
Ai giới thiệu? Who made the introduction? It was the woman I had thought might have written the novel The Renovation, about her childhood in Ha Noi. She got in touch last week after 10 years in Africa.
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#HieuMinhNguyen #WriteBloodyPublishing #WarrenWilsonCollege #BaoPhi
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#HieuMinhNguyen #WriteBloodyPublishing #WarrenWilsonCollege #BaoPhi
This Way to the Sugar (i)
from poet Hieu Minh Nguyen and Write Bloody Publishing
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May 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Ai giới thiệu? Who made the introduction? It was the woman I had thought might have written the novel The Renovation, about her childhood in Ha Noi. She got in touch last week after 10 years in Africa.
Read all about it.
#HieuMinhNguyen #WriteBloodyPublishing #WarrenWilsonCollege #BaoPhi
Read all about it.
#HieuMinhNguyen #WriteBloodyPublishing #WarrenWilsonCollege #BaoPhi
“Bên ngoài, trời dã sáng lắm.”
Outside, it was bright already.
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#Canada #NguyễnNgọcNgạn #Saigon
Outside, it was bright already.
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#Canada #NguyễnNgọcNgạn #Saigon
Cõi Đem (v)
from novelist Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn at Làng Văn
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May 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Bên ngoài, trời dã sáng lắm.”
Outside, it was bright already.
Read all about it.
#Canada #NguyễnNgọcNgạn #Saigon
Outside, it was bright already.
Read all about it.
#Canada #NguyễnNgọcNgạn #Saigon
"Oil made this America-dominated, futuristic world, and with its increasing scarcity, will unravel it."
Literature is news that stays news.
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#LinhDinh #DanSimon #SevenStoriesPress #JosephStalin #Jews #EzraPound #rootlesscosmopolitan #JohnSteinbeck #CanneryRow #Celine
Literature is news that stays news.
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#LinhDinh #DanSimon #SevenStoriesPress #JosephStalin #Jews #EzraPound #rootlesscosmopolitan #JohnSteinbeck #CanneryRow #Celine
Postcards from the End of America (ii)
from poet Linh Dinh and Seven Stories Press
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May 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"Oil made this America-dominated, futuristic world, and with its increasing scarcity, will unravel it."
Literature is news that stays news.
Read all about it.
#LinhDinh #DanSimon #SevenStoriesPress #JosephStalin #Jews #EzraPound #rootlesscosmopolitan #JohnSteinbeck #CanneryRow #Celine
Literature is news that stays news.
Read all about it.
#LinhDinh #DanSimon #SevenStoriesPress #JosephStalin #Jews #EzraPound #rootlesscosmopolitan #JohnSteinbeck #CanneryRow #Celine
"Ratshit and the Weasel and I
are behind this dike, see,
and Victor Charlie,
he's giving us what for."
Read all about it.
#DavidConnolly #VVAW #SouthBoston #VietnamVeteransAgainsttheWar #LostinAmerica #VictorCharlie #VietNamGeneration #VictorCharlie #OneofmyBestFriends #ThoughtsonaMonsoonMorning
are behind this dike, see,
and Victor Charlie,
he's giving us what for."
Read all about it.
#DavidConnolly #VVAW #SouthBoston #VietnamVeteransAgainsttheWar #LostinAmerica #VictorCharlie #VietNamGeneration #VictorCharlie #OneofmyBestFriends #ThoughtsonaMonsoonMorning
Why I Can't (i)
from poet David Connolly of the brothers and the sisters of the VVAW
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May 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
"Ratshit and the Weasel and I
are behind this dike, see,
and Victor Charlie,
he's giving us what for."
Read all about it.
#DavidConnolly #VVAW #SouthBoston #VietnamVeteransAgainsttheWar #LostinAmerica #VictorCharlie #VietNamGeneration #VictorCharlie #OneofmyBestFriends #ThoughtsonaMonsoonMorning
are behind this dike, see,
and Victor Charlie,
he's giving us what for."
Read all about it.
#DavidConnolly #VVAW #SouthBoston #VietnamVeteransAgainsttheWar #LostinAmerica #VictorCharlie #VietNamGeneration #VictorCharlie #OneofmyBestFriends #ThoughtsonaMonsoonMorning
John A. Williams did not expect a preacher to lead a revolution. No one did. Those who rose after emancipation in 1863 had worked in business and politics.
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#JohnAWilliams
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#JohnAWilliams
The King God Didn't Save (i)
from journalist John A. Williams at Coward-McCann, Inc.
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May 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
John A. Williams did not expect a preacher to lead a revolution. No one did. Those who rose after emancipation in 1863 had worked in business and politics.
Read all about it.
#JohnAWilliams
Read all about it.
#JohnAWilliams
The back cover of the novel is a glamor shot. The woman in the photograph won a job as a researcher at Vogue right out of college in 1956. She became one of the organic intellectuals of publishing in New York.
Read all about it.
Read all about it.
Democracy (i)
from reporter Joan Didion at Vogue
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May 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The back cover of the novel is a glamor shot. The woman in the photograph won a job as a researcher at Vogue right out of college in 1956. She became one of the organic intellectuals of publishing in New York.
Read all about it.
Read all about it.
There is nothing beautiful about his poetry.
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Read all about it.
I will visit your home (i)
from poet Nguyen Chi Thien at Viet Nam Literature Project
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May 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
There is nothing beautiful about his poetry.
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Read all about it.
"Were you related to many of the party and association leaders?"
"The Confucian teacher Toại and I were related. His mother, my mother-in-law, my paternal grandfather’s first wife, and the mother of another party member, the Deputy Mayor Thanh, were all sisters."
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"The Confucian teacher Toại and I were related. His mother, my mother-in-law, my paternal grandfather’s first wife, and the mother of another party member, the Deputy Mayor Thanh, were all sisters."
Read all about it.
Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village, 1925-2006 (iv)
from anthropologist Hy Van Luong and Vietnamese studies
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May 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"Were you related to many of the party and association leaders?"
"The Confucian teacher Toại and I were related. His mother, my mother-in-law, my paternal grandfather’s first wife, and the mother of another party member, the Deputy Mayor Thanh, were all sisters."
Read all about it.
"The Confucian teacher Toại and I were related. His mother, my mother-in-law, my paternal grandfather’s first wife, and the mother of another party member, the Deputy Mayor Thanh, were all sisters."
Read all about it.
Captain Abraham Blackman, United States Army, is still bleeding out in the Republic of Viet Nam. He had risen from cover to draw fire rather than let his young men walk into ambush from an overwhelming force.
Read all about it.
Read all about it.
Captain Blackman (iv)
from novelist John A. Williams and Doubleday & Company
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May 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Captain Abraham Blackman, United States Army, is still bleeding out in the Republic of Viet Nam. He had risen from cover to draw fire rather than let his young men walk into ambush from an overwhelming force.
Read all about it.
Read all about it.