The other day my 13-year-old granddaughter Van Chi came home very excited from school. “Grandpa, [...]
It’s now peak time for the “wedding season” — the “season of crimson kakis and [...]
The August Revolution of 1945 that put an end to eight decades of foreign domination [...]
Marriages between Vietnamese and foreigners have become common here since the 80s. Before that they [...]
Single parenting, though still a new notion in Vietnam, is gaining acceptance by the public [...]
Successive social upheavals – the August 1945 revolution with its democratic ideas, the ensuing thirty [...]
During a dinner at the house of a mutual friend, Mr. Francisco Roque, a Filipino [...]
Today is a happy day indeed. As a husband, father and would be grandfather, I [...]
Vietnamese names can be veritable Chinese puzzles for the unwary foreigner. Shortening a Western name [...]
Last week a tragicomedy broke the monotony of our humdrum domestic life. Our daughter-in-law, an [...]
In the days following Tet, spring festivals are held throughout the countryside. Boys and girls [...]
The man-wife-lover relationship, through a common subject for literature in the West, was rarely talked [...]
Sociologists have tried to attribute the “Japanese Miracle” to the Japanese sense of community. A [...]
European and American friends often ask me the meaning of the ideogram “phuc” embroidered on [...]
Foreign obsen’ers who have known Vietnam since before the Revolution of August 1945 may easily [...]
The other day I received a letter sent from California by Mr X., colonel in [...]
A symposium was held in July on the work of the late Duong Quang Ham [...]
Of all my books in Vietnamese, the fondest memory is of a translation of Grimm’s [...]
The Western skirt has become ubiquitous in Hanoi these days, giving an almost European look [...]
I have met, in Paris and Marseilles, Vietnamese in their sixties or seventies who left [...]
A letter from New York published by an overseas Vietnamese magazine has moved me deeply. [...]
My friend Nam, a retired college professor, lives on Goldsmiths’ street, in the heart of [...]
In many Third World countries a vigorous and. alas, seemingly little effective campaign against corruption [...]
I am thankful to Yoshiko Higuchi for sending me the manuscript of her thesis “Collectivism [...]
“Chang thom cung the hoa nhai Dau khong thanh lich cung nguoi Trang An” (Without [...]
In Vietnam the Chinese minority numbers about one million. Most are Hoa, i.e. Chinese who [...]
Hanoi, with a population of three million (75.000 in 1926; 130,000 in the 1930’s) comprises [...]
A thousand years ago, the embryo of Hanoi was a cluster of villages. Some twenty [...]
Since the adoption of the market economy in 1986, there has been a marked improvement [...]
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