Lucy Nguyen memoir published

Wikivietlit

Dan Duffy <dduffy@email.unc.edu>
date Mar 16, 2007 5:10 AM
subject [Vsg] Wikivietlit up

Hi all,

Wikivietlit is up at the Viet Nam Literature Project website. Click on
the icon at the upper right corner of our front page,
<www.vietnamlit.org>, or go directly to <www.vietnamlit.org/wiki>

A wiki is a user-written web-based relational data-base using the free
software provided by Wikimedia. The best-known wiki is the popular
Wikipedia, written by non-experts who stress attribution to written
authorities.

Wikivietlit is more like the wikis that work-teams in corporations and
labs and classes at universities use to keep each other up on procedures
and key information. We encourage people who know something about
Vietnamese literature to share their knowledge with each other and the
general public.

The front page of the wiki explains itself, with boxes on coverage,
staff, sponsor, and a featured article, and links to details on
copyright, funding, and such.

Editor Linh Dinh and Wikivietlit Fellow Hai-Dang Phan have thrown
themselves into substantiating the overseas Vietnamese literary-magazine
understanding they share of global Vietnamese literature, with more than
100 articles on predecessors in the colonial and war periods and
traditional verse as well as contemporary figures and institutions.

To get a sense of what they have done, simply use the "Random" key on
the left-hand navigation bar to flip through. You can also look through
their work via the list of articles, site statistics, categories. We
have arranged the functions in a manner as easy to understand for both
readers and contributors as the Wikipedia software will let us.

If you would like to expand on something you see, clarify details, or
contribute a related article, just register as a contributor at the top
of the page and have at it. Linh's is not the only way to think of
Vietnamese literature.

I've got my own world which I will be sharing, and I am recruiting
others to contribute theirs as Linh and Hai have done. Lily Chiu will
be contributing significantly over the next quarter, we hope stressing a
comparatist view.

If you have a coherent set of articles to add, and would like to work
with me formally, just drop a line. As our content expands I will also
be looking for librarians to improve intellectual access, which I would
like to coordinate somewhat. But anyone can just register and get to work.

Dan

Dan Duffy <dduffy@email.unc.edu>
date Mar 16, 2007 12:42 PM
subject Re: [Vsg] Wikivietlit up

Hi all,

I've been getting kind words about the wiki, and some extremely helpful
comments on revising particular articles.

I would like to encourage those who have a lot to say to register as
contributors to the wiki and revise articles on which they have expertise.

Linh and Hai have put their stamps on the wiki in hopes of encouraging
others to join them. Short of vandalism, feel free to revise
extensively. The original authors will notice and react, or not.

There will be articles where experts will disagree at length about the
facts - especially issues of translation - but those should be few
enough that we will have time to find some positive resolution.

I have not yet had time to write entries myself, except to revise what
Linh wrote about me. You can check the authorship of any article by
clicking its "history" tab.

Oh, I have neglected to acknowledge our Wikimaster, Philip Arthur Moore,
whom I recruited through this listserv. Thanks to Philip and vsg.

Dan

From: Eric Henry
To: editor@vietnamlit.org ; Vietnam Studies Group
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 4:30 AM
Subject: [Vsg] Re: Pham Duy article for Wikivietlit

Dan - - I've been trying to create an entry for Pham Duy in Wikivietlit, but the system won't let me log on; it just keeps leading me around and around in circles. (says such things as: "error: password incorrect"; or error: user name already in use," etc. etc.). Pasted in below is the article I wanted to create under the entry "Pham Duy." -- Eric

Phạm Duy: Real name Phạm Duy Cẩn, Vietnam’s most prolific song-writer and lyricist. Born on October 5, 1921 in Hà Nội, by Sword Lake, he was the youngest son of the early 20th century journalist, reformer, and fiction writer Phạm Duy Tốn. He wrote his first song, “Cô Hái Mơ,” (“The Young Lass Picking Apricots”) in 1942, while still an amateur singer and guitarist. He got his professional start early in 1944 when he joined the “Gánh Đức Huy Charlot Miều,” a cải lương opera troupe. He toured the length and breadth of the country for two years with this troupe, entertaining audiences as a between-acts singer of “tân nhạc” or “new music,” while in the meantime gaining a familiarity with the folk music of every region he passed through. In 1946 he joined the Viet Minh resistance, first as a guerilla fighter and then as a member of various arts units whose mission was to entertain and inspire the soldiers. In this period he wrote patriotic songs, such as “Xuất Quân” (“Bringing Out the Troops”), songs in folk style, such as “Ru Con” (“Lullaby”), and songs of romantic yearning, such as “Bên Cầu Biên Giới” (“By the Border Bridge”). These songs all achieved instant popularity. It was in this period also that he met and married the singer and actress Thái Hằng (the sister of the song-writer Phạm Đình Chương and the singer Thái Thanh), with whom he had eight children, six of whom, Duy Quang, Duy Minh, Duy Hùng, Duy Cường, Thái Hiền, and Thái Thảo, became well-known musicians in their own right. With much regret, he left the Việt Minh at the end of 1950 to escape ideological control, and settled in Sài Gòn early in 1951. Toward the end of 1951, he and two other musicians, Trần Văn Trạch, and Lê Thương, were arrested and confined to a cell in the Catinat prison for 120 days. Some jealous musicians with connections to the police had accused them of being Việt Minh sympathizers. For the next twenty-four years he dominated the muscial scene in the south. He was instrumental in establishing the Thăng Long singers, perhaps the most professional of the many performance groups that appeared in the south in this era. He excelled both in writing lyrics and in setting poems written by others. He was active in film-making in the 50s and 60s; and in the 60s did much to promote public awareness of indigenous folk music. In the late 1960s, he spearheaded the Du Ca or “Troubadour” movement, the aim of which was to combat commercialism in popular music by involving college students in the creation and performance of songs. Over the course of his career, he made hundreds of foreign songs available to Vietnamese audiences by providing them with sets of Vietnamese lyrics. He escaped to U.S. in 1975, just before the fall of the south, and, after about two years in Florida, settled in Midway City, California, next to Little Saigon. An especially inventive and ambitious composer, he is the author of about two dozen song-cycles on varied themes, each bound up in some way with the culture, history, or fate of Việt Nam. Two of the most well-known of these are Con Đường Cai Quan or “The Mandarin Road” and Mẹ Việt Nam or “Mothers of Vietnam.” Subsequent to 1975, he wrote several dozen songs reflecting the refugee experience as well as song cycles based on the poems of Hoang Cầm (a close friend of his from his period with the Viet Minh), Nguyễn Chí Thiện, and Hàn Mặc Tử. In the late 1990s he began writing Minh Hoạ Kiều or “Illustrations of Kiều” using as texts excerpts from Nguyễn Du’s celebrated poem. Throughout the period from1975 to1999, he went on international tours as a lecturer, singer, and guitarist to promote his song cycles. In 2000, at the age of 79, he began making return trips to Việt Nam, where he was warmly welcomed everywhere by private people and government figures, though the Vietnamese socialist regime had banned the public performance of his music ever since 1975. In May, 2005, he returned to Vietnam for good, and the government began the process of lifting restrictions on the performance of his music. He is the author of a four-volume set of memoirs, a guitar method, and numerous articles and book-length studies on musical topics, including (in English) Musics of Vietnam, Southern Illinois University Press, 1975.

Dan Duffy <dduffy@email.unc.edu>
date Mar 27, 2007 5:09 AM
subject [Vsg] VNLP Bulletin #14 : March 26, 2007 re: Wikivietlit

Hi all, here is the new VNLP bulletin announcing Wikivietlit, the
user-written on-line English-language database to Vietnamese literature.

You can go directly to the bulletin at
http://www.vietnamlit.org/news.html, or to Wikivietlit itself at
http://www.vietnamlit.org/wiki

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	« Return to Bibliographic New Wikivietlit Dan Duffy <dduffy@email.unc.edu> date Mar 16, 2007 5:10 AM subject [Vsg] Wikivietlit up Hi all, Wikivietlit is up at the Viet Nam Literature Project website. Click on the icon at the upper right corner of our front page, <www.vietnamlit.org>, or go directly to <www.vietnamlit.org/wiki> A wiki is a user-written web-based relational data-base using the free software provided by Wikimedia. The best-known wiki is the popular Wikipedia, written by non-experts who stress attribution to written authorities. Wikivietlit is more like the wikis that work-teams in corporations and labs and classes at universities use to keep each other up on procedures and key information. We encourage people who know something about Vietnamese literature to share their knowledge with each other and the general public. The front page of the wiki explains itself, with boxes on coverage, staff, sponsor, and a featured article, and links to details on copyright, funding, and such. Editor Linh Dinh and Wikivietlit Fellow Hai-Dang Phan have thrown themselves into substantiating the overseas Vietnamese literary-magazine understanding they share of global Vietnamese literature, with more than 100 articles on predecessors in the colonial and war periods and traditional verse as well as contemporary figures and institutions. To get a sense of what they have done, simply use the "Random" key on the left-hand navigation bar to flip through. You can also look through their work via the list of articles, site statistics, categories. We have arranged the functions in a manner as easy to understand for both readers and contributors as the Wikipedia software will let us. If you would like to expand on something you see, clarify details, or contribute a related article, just register as a contributor at the top of the page and have at it. Linh's is not the only way to think of Vietnamese literature. I've got my own world which I will be sharing, and I am recruiting others to contribute theirs as Linh and Hai have done. Lily Chiu will be contributing significantly over the next quarter, we hope stressing a comparatist view. If you have a coherent set of articles to add, and would like to work with me formally, just drop a line. As our content expands I will also be looking for librarians to improve intellectual access, which I would like to coordinate somewhat. But anyone can just register and get to work. Dan Dan Duffy <dduffy@email.unc.edu> date Mar 16, 2007 12:42 PM subject Re: [Vsg] Wikivietlit up Hi all, I've been getting kind words about the wiki, and some extremely helpful comments on revising particular articles. I would like to encourage those who have a lot to say to register as contributors to the wiki and revise articles on which they have expertise. Linh and Hai have put their stamps on the wiki in hopes of encouraging others to join them. Short of vandalism, feel free to revise extensively. The original authors will notice and react, or not. There will be articles where experts will disagree at length about the facts - especially issues of translation - but those should be few enough that we will have time to find some positive resolution. I have not yet had time to write entries myself, except to revise what Linh wrote about me. You can check the authorship of any article by clicking its "history" tab. Oh, I have neglected to acknowledge our Wikimaster, Philip Arthur Moore, whom I recruited through this listserv. Thanks to Philip and vsg. Dan From: Eric Henry To: editor@vietnamlit.org ; Vietnam Studies Group Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 4:30 AM Subject: [Vsg] Re: Pham Duy article for Wikivietlit Dan - - I've been trying to create an entry for Pham Duy in Wikivietlit, but the system won't let me log on; it just keeps leading me around and around in circles. (says such things as: "error: password incorrect"; or error: user name already in use," etc. etc.). Pasted in below is the article I wanted to create under the entry "Pham Duy." -- Eric Phạm Duy: Real name Phạm Duy Cẩn, Vietnam’s most prolific song-writer and lyricist. Born on October 5, 1921 in Hà Nội, by Sword Lake, he was the youngest son of the early 20th century journalist, reformer, and fiction writer Phạm Duy Tốn. He wrote his first song, “Cô Hái Mơ,” (“The Young Lass Picking Apricots”) in 1942, while still an amateur singer and guitarist. He got his professional start early in 1944 when he joined the “Gánh Đức Huy Charlot Miều,” a cải lương opera troupe. He toured the length and breadth of the country for two years with this troupe, entertaining audiences as a between-acts singer of “tân nhạc” or “new music,” while in the meantime gaining a familiarity with the folk music of every region he passed through. In 1946 he joined the Viet Minh resistance, first as a guerilla fighter and then as a member of various arts units whose mission was to entertain and inspire the soldiers. In this period he wrote patriotic songs, such as “Xuất Quân” (“Bringing Out the Troops”), songs in folk style, such as “Ru Con” (“Lullaby”), and songs of romantic yearning, such as “Bên Cầu Biên Giới” (“By the Border Bridge”). These songs all achieved instant popularity. It was in this period also that he met and married the singer and actress Thái Hằng (the sister of the song-writer Phạm Đình Chương and the singer Thái Thanh), with whom he had eight children, six of whom, Duy Quang, Duy Minh, Duy Hùng, Duy Cường, Thái Hiền, and Thái Thảo, became well-known musicians in their own right. With much regret, he left the Việt Minh at the end of 1950 to escape ideological control, and settled in Sài Gòn early in 1951. Toward the end of 1951, he and two other musicians, Trần Văn Trạch, and Lê Thương, were arrested and confined to a cell in the Catinat prison for 120 days. Some jealous musicians with connections to the police had accused them of being Việt Minh sympathizers. For the next twenty-four years he dominated the muscial scene in the south. He was instrumental in establishing the Thăng Long singers, perhaps the most professional of the many performance groups that appeared in the south in this era. He excelled both in writing lyrics and in setting poems written by others. He was active in film-making in the 50s and 60s; and in the 60s did much to promote public awareness of indigenous folk music. In the late 1960s, he spearheaded the Du Ca or “Troubadour” movement, the aim of which was to combat commercialism in popular music by involving college students in the creation and performance of songs. Over the course of his career, he made hundreds of foreign songs available to Vietnamese audiences by providing them with sets of Vietnamese lyrics. He escaped to U.S. in 1975, just before the fall of the south, and, after about two years in Florida, settled in Midway City, California, next to Little Saigon. An especially inventive and ambitious composer, he is the author of about two dozen song-cycles on varied themes, each bound up in some way with the culture, history, or fate of Việt Nam. Two of the most well-known of these are Con Đường Cai Quan or “The Mandarin Road” and Mẹ Việt Nam or “Mothers of Vietnam.” Subsequent to 1975, he wrote several dozen songs reflecting the refugee experience as well as song cycles based on the poems of Hoang Cầm (a close friend of his from his period with the Viet Minh), Nguyễn Chí Thiện, and Hàn Mặc Tử. In the late 1990s he began writing Minh Hoạ Kiều or “Illustrations of Kiều” using as texts excerpts from Nguyễn Du’s celebrated poem. Throughout the period from1975 to1999, he went on international tours as a lecturer, singer, and guitarist to promote his song cycles. In 2000, at the age of 79, he began making return trips to Việt Nam, where he was warmly welcomed everywhere by private people and government figures, though the Vietnamese socialist regime had banned the public performance of his music ever since 1975. In May, 2005, he returned to Vietnam for good, and the government began the process of lifting restrictions on the performance of his music. He is the author of a four-volume set of memoirs, a guitar method, and numerous articles and book-length studies on musical topics, including (in English) Musics of Vietnam, Southern Illinois University Press, 1975. Dan Duffy <dduffy@email.unc.edu> date Mar 27, 2007 5:09 AM subject [Vsg] VNLP Bulletin #14 : March 26, 2007 re: Wikivietlit Hi all, here is the new VNLP bulletin announcing Wikivietlit, the user-written on-line English-language database to Vietnamese literature. You can go directly to the bulletin at http://www.vietnamlit.org/news.html, or to Wikivietlit itself at http://www.vietnamlit.org/wiki Return to top of page