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Hà Nội, mirror of Indochinese architecture
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01/26/2010 | 5:00 PM
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The architect Christian Pedalahore spent many of his childhood years in Việt Nam, to which he was remained very attached. He published an excellent article about Indochinese architecture in Hà Nội in Architecture Française Mardaga (Collection Villes, 1992). We provide below a condensed version, limiting the content to what could help the reader better understanding Hà Nội’s former French Quarter in the context of Indochinese architecture.
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Lacquer and cultural identity
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01/26/2010 | 3:05 PM
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For several decades now, especially since the invasion of Western life-ways in the wake of the adoption of the market economy, cultural workers, scholars in the human sciences in particular, are preoccupied by two major problems: how to preserve our cultural identity, the motive force behind two wars of resistance lasting thirty years? How to open ourselves to Western cultures without losing that identity, in other words, how to reconcile tradition with modernity, East with West?
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A visit to a few scholars’ villages
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01/26/2010 | 2:13 PM
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A visit to a few villagers in the suburbs of Hà Nội with cultural traditions and known for the large number of laureates of those competitions who had been born there would be greatly significant.
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Đồng Xuân Market
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01/26/2010 | 1:00 PM
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Đồng Xuân is the name of the largest market in Hà Nội. Located in the heart of the Old Quarter, it was part of an ancient hamlet of that name before it became a street. It was built in 1889 by the French colonial administration to replace the Cầu Đông (Eastern Bridge) Market situated to the east, close to the Tô Lịch River, which was partly filled for the arrangement of new streets.
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The Tô Lịch close to Hanoians
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01/26/2010 | 9:46 AM
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The Red River flows several provinces of the northern delta and shapes their landscapes. That is why it touches the chord of Hanoians’ hearts to a lesser degree than the river Tô Lịch, which has been reduced to a stream of which, alas, only a few stretches remain.