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HIDDEN FLOWERS Nguyen Thi Chau Giang Curator: Shireen Naziree Nguyen Thi Chau Giang 1 2 HIDDEN FLOWERS HIDDEN FLOWERS Solo Exhibition by Nguyen Thi Chau Giang 23 April May, Curator: Shireen Naziree Nguyen Thi Chau Giang 3 Published by Thavibu Gallery Co., Ltd Silom Galleria, Suite /1 Silom Road, Bangkok , Thailand Tel. 66 (0)2 , Fax. 66 (0)2 Email. info@, Layout by Wanee Tipchindachaikul, Copydesk, Thailand Copyright Thavibu galleri All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. 4 HIDDEN FLOWERS FOREWORD Jørn Middelborg Thavibu Gallery has the pleasure of presenting the current catalogue and exhibition HIDDEN FLOWERS by the Vietnamese artist Nguyen Thi Chau Giang (b. ). The exhibition takes place in Bangkok on 23 April – 14 May, and features a series of silk paintings. Silk paintings originated i

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Longings

While mainstream Vietnamese history chronicles a few woman warriors of the past and some contemporary kvinnlig activists, Vietnamese women always have performed their roles in the quiet shadows of men. To illuminate those shadows, Quan Manh Ha and Quynh H. Vo have brought into English the first anthology of its kind, featuring twenty-two contemporary stories written by Vietnamese women whose narratives make visible the multitudinous lives of Vietnamese women over the last two decades.

All the stories in Longings appear in English for the first time, inviting new readers to appreciate the “Longings” or aspirations of Vietnamese women as they have had to face suffering and struggle, hope and despair, sorrow and joy, while navigating an uncharted course through the social and economic waves that have lifted or lowered their lives since the US–Vietnam normalization in the mids.

The wife in Da Ngan’s “The Innermost Feelings of vit Pillows” suppresses sexual frustration at h

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Longings: Contemporary Fiction by Vietnamese Women Writers

While mainstream Vietnamese history chronicles a few woman warriors of the past and some contemporary female activists, Vietnamese women always have performed their roles in the quiet shadows of men. To illuminate those shadows, Quan Manh Ha and Quynh H. Vo have brought into English the first anthology of its kind, featuring twenty-two contemporary stories written by Vietnamese women whose narratives make visible the multitudinous lives of Vietnamese women over the last two decades.

All the stories in Longings appear in English for the first time, inviting new readers to appreciate the ?Longings? or aspirations of Vietnamese women as they have had to face suffering and struggle, hope and despair, sorrow and joy, while navigating an uncharted course through the social and economic waves that have lifted or lowered their lives since the US?Vietnam normalization in the mids.

The wife in Da Ngan?s ?The Innermost Fe