[Vnbiz] CHTNNT

[Tram Dang]

Very informative and interesting piece.  Thanks Anh Hoanh for passing it
along and for giving us a brief bio of the author.

Tram


On 12/4/06, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
> Dear Brother Tai & CACC,
>
> Thanks for the link to chi. Cong Huyen Ton Nu Nha Trang's article.
>
> Just a side note about chi Nha Trang.  As her name says, she is from
> the royal family, but was born in Nha Trang.  She is the sweetest
> woman I know.  Sweet but very solid in opinion.  I think she and her
> husband are teaching at a university in Chiangmai, Thailand.
>
> As I mentioned during my brief presentation on the history of VNBIZ at
> the Hanoi gathering, the grandfather of VNBIZ is VAEF (Vietnamese
> American Education Foundation).  VAEF, then VNFORUM, then VNBIZ.  We
> started VAEF around the end of 1991 or beginning 1992, chi Nha Trang
> was a member of the VAEF Board of Advisors.  The first VAEF seminar I
> organized was a two-week law seminar at the Ministry of Justice in
> Hanoi and its Saigon branch in Sept. 1992 (for lawyers, judges and
> other legal professionals).
>
> Chi Nha Trang happened to be in Vietnam during that time and acted as
> our interpreter for a couple of classes.  During that trip, chi Nha
> Trang told me that her mother gave her the name Nha Trang so that her
> heart would be as large as the open sea.
>
> Just some tidbit to brighten the day :-)
>
> Hoanh
>
>
> On 12/4/06, Phan, Tai <Tai.Phan at ed.gov> wrote:
> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
> >
> > Dear CACC,
> >
> > This analytic from Nha Trang (see the link at the end)is a little bit
> long but enjoyable.
> >
> > Tai
> >
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > CONG HUYEN TON NU NHA TRANG
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Prescriptive Remaking of
> > the Vietnamese National Heroine* (c)
> >
> > (*As an imagined representative of the unseen spirit and unheard voice
> of Vietnamese women, the omnipresent first-person narrator utters thoughts
> occasioned by her spiritual and intellectual journey from traditional time
> to the twentieth-century, a journey to re-discover and re-examine her proud
> heritage as is projected in literature.
> >
> > I am a literary critic, and this article is not meant to be a historical
> study; rather, it embodies an analytic observation of the manner in which
> male-dominated literature has depicted the early Vietnamese women warriors,
> generally in agreement with history recorded also by men. I wish to thank
> the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell and the Rockefeller Foundation for
> their generous support provided in 1988-1989 toward my research for an
> unfinished manuscript on the psychosocial evolution of the Vietnamese woman,
> of which this article is a chapter. An earlier version of this piece was
> published in Yale University's the Vietnam Review 1 (Autumn-Winter 1996)
> entitled "The Makings of the National Heroine". I would like to share my
> thoughts with a larger audience.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Tôi mu?n c??i c?n gió m?nh, ??p lu?ng sóng d?, chém cá kěnh ? bi?n kh?i,
> ?ánh ?u?i quân Ngô, giŕnh l?i giang s?n, c?i ách nô l?, ch? tôi không ch?u
> khom l?ng lŕm t? thi?p cho ng??i. (1)
> > (I want to ride strong winds, trample upon fierce waves, kill sharks in
> the ocean, drive out the Wu Chinese invaders, regain our country and throw
> off the yoke of slavery; I will not bend to and serve someone as his
> slave-concubine.)
> >
> > [Statement attributed by oral tradition
> > to Lady Tri?u of the third century A.D.]
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/chtn_nhatrang/nationalheroine.html
>
>
> --
> Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
> Attorney of Law
> Washington DC
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