MAP OF HANOI VIETNAM VIETNAM THE LOVE OF

MAP OF HANOI, VIETNAM

VIETNAM: THE LOVE OF LAC LON • • • LAC LONG QUAN, DRAGON OF THE SOUTH FALLS IN LOVE WITH AU CO, THE FAIRY OF THE NORTH HAVE 100 CHILDREN TOGETHER ELDEST SON, HUNG BUT SEPARATE BACK VUONG, BEGAN THE TO NORTH ANDMONARCH SOUTH, VIETNAMESE TAKING 50 EACH WITH 111 BCE TO 972 AD CHINESE COLONIZATION 1860 TO 1954 FRENCH COLONIZATION 1954 TO 1975 THE VIETNAM

HANOI: THE CITY OF THE RISING DRA • • VIETNAM’S CAPITAL AND ONE OF THE OLDEST CAPITALS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA APPOINTED AS CAPITAL WHEN VIETNAM GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM CHINA • • EMPEROR LY CONG UAN SAID A GOLDEN DRAGON WELCOMED HIM TO HANOI THEN FLEW INTO THE SKY, THUS NAMED IT THANG LONG RENAMED TO HANOI, “AMID THE RIVERS” HO CHI MINH, NORTH VIETNAM COMMUNIST LEADER, NAMED HANOI CAPITAL ONCE AGAIN IN

“HANOI REMAINED STRONG DESPITE VIETNAM’S TUMULTUOUS CONTRADICTIONS: BETWEEN RUPTURE AND CONINUITY, REVOLT SUBMISSION… THE INTRUSION- GEORGES OF BOUDAREL WESTERN MODERNITY ANDNGUYEN THEVANAND KY, HANOI: CITY OF THE PRESERVATION OF TRADITION, AND RISING DRAGON FINALLY SOCIALISM AND A MARKET ECONOMY”

INSIDE ST. JOSEPH’S NOTRE DAME ST. JOSEPH’S

FRENCH AN INTERSECTION

HANOI MILITARY MUSEUM

“JUST WAIT. YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH TISTS TODAY] ARE INTEGRATING THE TRADITIO TO THE MODERN AND EXPRESSING THEMSELV IN NEW WAYS. ” FROM “ THE AWAKENING OF HANOI” BY JENNIFER CONLIN, NEW YORK TIMES

VU DAN TAN PIONEER OF VIETNAMESE CONTEMPORARY ART

MAI ANH A “DREAMY” CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

HOANG ART

ZIGI “IT IS OUR GIFT TO THE CITY”

POETRY AND NATIONAL POETRY DAY This is a city that nurtures the soul of a poet… It is not easily explained, but it is something you feel. In the touch of the mist… In the traditions, the lives of struggle. - NGUYEN DUC MAU, VIETNAMESE RENOWNED POET

“THIS IS THE HANOI THAT FOUND ITS WAY INTO MY HEART-- A CITY FRESHLY FROM “HANOI: SHREDDING THE PAINTED, WALKING GHOSTS OF WITH WAR” DAVID THE LAMB IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SWAGGER OF THE VICTORIOUS”