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Traditional dress
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03/10/2010 | 4:13 PM
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v\:* { behavior: url(#default#VML) } o\:* { behavior: url(#default#VML) } .shape { behavior: url(#default#VML) } VGP - Traditional dress of Hà Nội citizens in the "pre-Thăng Long" period was not so different from those of the Văn Lang-Âu Lạc people as a whole.
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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?