Khuong dai ve biography books
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Confucianism in Vietnam: A Hauntology-based Analysis of Political Discourse
Introduction
In the early years of the twentieth century, Confucianism in general received a torrent of criticism after Western civilization made many great achievements which led many to deny or minimize the previous achievements of Confucian knowledge during the over the prior 2000 year-period. Confucian knowledge in Vietnam also suffered the same fate. It was not until the rise of the “East Asian dragons” that Confucian thought and traditions or traditions of Confucian ursprung became the main driving force promoting Confucianism. After that, Confucianism was once again revived and assured of its status. It has even been succinctly paraphrased that “the rise of Asia has its roots in Confucian values” (Kaplan 2015). In 2002, the edited volume, Rethinking Confucianism, Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, bygd Benjamin A. Elman, John B. Duncan, and Herman Ooms raised the question of a new
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The New Hero (1952–1964)
History without biography would be something like rest without relaxation, food with no taste, and a bit like a history of love without love.
Victor Albjerg1
1The world of the new hero is steeped in both myth and reality. The heroes at Tuyên Quang were real people, endowed with omnipotence by an authoritarian and internationalist political rhetoric. In the Vietnam of the 1950s, the new hero represents the slow and progressive disappearance of individual memory in the face of the propaganda apparatus of the State. The new Vietnamese hero differed from the emulation fighter because of his close bond with the huvud government. Although this close collaboration was sometimes fictitious, the heroic figure was designed to be the incarnation of a value; he was an absolute in flesh and blood presented to society as the conduit of an ideal. The new hero was a transmitter, the alchemist of a new transformation between the government and its people. He al
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Zen in Medieval Vietnam : A Study and Translation of Thien Uyen Tap Anh 9780824819484, 0824819489
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ZEN IN MEDIEVAL
VIETNAM
K U R O D A INSTITUTE Classics in East Asian Buddhism The Kuroda Institute for the Study of B u d d h i s m and H u m a n Values is a non-profit, educational corporation, founded in 1 9 7 6 . One of its primary objectives is to promote scholarship on B u d d h i s m in its historical, philosophical, and cultural ramifications. The Institute thus attempts to serve the scholarly c o m m u n i t y by providing a forum in which scholars can g a t h e r at conferences and colloquia. To date, the Institute has sponsored six conferences in the area of B u d d h i s t Studies, and volumes resulting from these conferences are published in the Institute's Studies in East Asian B u d d h i s m series. To complement these scholarly studies, the Institute also makes available in the present series reliable translations of some of the major classics