Socialist Republic of Vietnam Cong Hoa Chu Nghia Viet Nam CAPITAL: Hanoi FLAG: The flag is red with a five-pointed gold star in the center. ANTHEM: Tien Quan Ça (Forward, Soldiers!). MONETARY UNIT: The dong (D) is a paper currency of 10 hao and...
Vietnam POPULATION 81,098,416BUDDHIST 84 percentCHRISTIAN 10 percentCAO DAI 3 percentHOA HAO 2 percentOTHER 1 percent Country Overview Introduction Extending south from China in a long, narrow S-curve, Vietnam is a tropical country occupying the east...
Vietnam The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is located in central Southeast Asia. It is bordered on the west by Cambodia and Laos and on the north by China. On the east, it is bordered by the South China Sea (which the Vietnamese, sensitive to Chinese...
American involvement in Vietnam began in the mid-1950s, as the French, defeated on the battlefield by the communist Viet Minh, began to withdraw all military forces out of their former colony. Fearing a vacuum that the communists might soon fill, the...
(2001 est. pop. 79.9 million). Vietnam occupies the eastern portion of the Indochinese peninsula, bordered on the north by China, on the west by Laos and Cambodia, and on the east by the South China Sea. The area of the country is slightly smaller...
Most Vietnamese men now wear Western clothing but most Vietnamese women wear the ao dai, a front opening, knee-length, coat-like garment with a stand collar and splits from hem to waist level at each side. The ao dai is tailor-made from plain or...
The term "Sino-Vietnamese culture" designates the part of Vietnamese culture that has been very heavily influenced by China and that uses classical Chinese as its medium of expression. Because Vietnam was part of the Chinese empire from...
Called hat tuong in northern Vietnam and hat boi in southern Vietnam, Vietnamese opera is considered the classical operatic theater of Vietnam. Hat boi translates as "song and gesture," emphasizing the prominence of singing and acting in...
(b. 1942), Vietnamese dissident. Since 1971, when he returned to Vietnam following the completion of his doctorate in education from Florida State University, Hoat has been a leading dissident intellectual in Vietnam. Hoat was assistant chancellor of...
(1896–1951), Vietnamese anticolonial leader. Ho Tung Mau was born in Quynh Doi village in Nghe An Province (in north-central Vietnam) in 1896. The son of a Vietnamese scholar, he obtained a classical education before becoming involved in...
(d. 1973), Vietnamese writer. Although known as the author who introduced the romantic novel into Vietnamese literature with his work To Tam, Hoang Ngoc Phach's biography reads much more like a bureaucrat's than a writer's. Born...
