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  1. A Glimpse of Vietnamese Oral Literature: Mythology, Tales, Folklore by Loc Dinh Pham, 2002-04
  2. To Swim in Our Own Pond: Ta Ve Ta Tam Ao Ta : A Book of Vietnamese Proverbs
  3. Brother Cat and Brother Rat/Vietnamese English Version (Chung-Kuo Hai Tzu Ti Ku Shih. 41 Tse.) by Wonder Kids Publications Group, 1992-06
  4. Celebrating New Year - Miss Yuan-Shiau/Vietnamese English Version (Chinese Children's Stories) by Wonder Kids Publications Group, 1992-06
  5. The Blind Man and the Cripple / Orchard Village: Vietnamese-English (Chinese Children's Stories Series) by Wonder Kids Publications Group, 1992-06
  6. Story of the Chinese Zodiac: English Vietnamese by M. Chang, 1994-06
  7. Look What We'Ve Brought You from Vietnam: Crafts, Games, Recipes, Stories, and Other Cultural Activities from Vietnamese Americans (Look What We've Brought You From...) by Phyllis Shalant, 1998-10
  8. The original myths of Vietnam (Vietnamese studies papers) by Ngọc Bích Nguyẽ̂n, 1985
  9. The Golden Slipper: A Vietnamese Legend (Legends of the World) by Darrell H. Y. Lum, 1994-06
  10. Legend of Mu Lan by Wei Jiang, 1997-10
  11. Ithaca in black and white: A play by Paul Woodruff, 1999
  12. Conflict of Myths: The Development of Counter-Insurgency Doctrine and the Vietnam War by Larry Cable, 1988-08-01

61. LRB | Michael Wood : Just One Of Those Ends
than metaphors for what might happen to European souls, just as American mythology loses the vietnamese as anything other than shadows in a psychodrama.
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Apocalypse Now Redux directed by Francis Ford Coppola Marlon Brando You have only to watch a few frames of Apocalypse Now , in either version, to realise you have caught a high point of American filmmaking. The lighting is wonderful, the editing precise and inventive. Individual shots are full of things to look at, large and small; you can feel the patient care behind every set-up. The actors, even the toughest, look frail and haunted, and the voice-over matches them: hard-boiled and shaky, as if the narrator of Double Indemnity had been bewildered by the jungle.

62. LRB | Michael Wood : Just One Of Those Ends
A vietnamese technician (Jerry Ziesmer) reverses the oriental stereotype by just as American mythology loses the vietnamese as anything other than
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Apocalypse Now Redux directed by Francis Ford Coppola Marlon Brando You have only to watch a few frames of Apocalypse Now , in either version, to realise you have caught a high point of American filmmaking. The lighting is wonderful, the editing precise and inventive. Individual shots are full of things to look at, large and small; you can feel the patient care behind every set-up. The actors, even the toughest, look frail and haunted, and the voice-over matches them: hard-boiled and shaky, as if the narrator of Double Indemnity had been bewildered by the jungle. Of course the film gets bewildered too, and takes off on an extraordinary literary ramble from which it never returns and in which Francis Coppola and his team seem to have decided to do The Golden Bough as their Christmas pantomime. The confused ending weighs on the film but doesn't wreck it, so we don't need to hush up the confusion or pretend it isn't confusion at all. Apocalypse Now is a great film, but a great film that gets lost, and the reasons for its getting lost are part of the film.

63. [09-27-95] Andrew Lam, Vietnamese Americans Discover The Rice Field In The Micro
PNS editor Andrew Lam is a vietnamese American reporter and short story writer inspired an avid interest in East Asian history, culture and mythology.
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Date: 09-27-95 Anti-technology feelings are running high these days, not just in the sentiments expressed by the Unabomber but among many ordinary Americans who believe technological progress means more lonely, isolated people. But Vietnamese Americans offer a different experience. For them, high tech has fused the future with the past. PNS editor Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American reporter and short story writer living in the Bay Area. SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA In his high tech lair full of humming computers and lilting modems, a Vietnamese American friend prophesizes my future. "You will become a workaholic and have tragic romances," he sighs as he contemplates the stars and comets swirling around the hour and date of my birth. "On the other hand, you will always be surrounded by great and intelligent friends." Coming from a Ph.D. from MIT who in his off-hours designs software programs for horoscopes, who was I to argue? My friend works as a computer scientist in Silicon Valley, but he finds no contradiction between his daytime occupation and nighttime hobby. In fact to him, and to many Vietnamese immigrants in America, they mesh. While many native-born Americans blame technology the ATM, automated gas pumps, the home shopping network for breaking down community and family ties, many Asian immigrants will tell you it has had the reverse effect on their lives. Not long ago the ocean was vast, homesickness was an incurable malady, and the immigrant had little more than memories to keep cultural ties alive. Today jumbo jets have shrunk the ocean; the camcorder shows grandma back home what life is like in America; and the newly arrived needs only the fax machine and a satellite dish pointed skyward to keep abreast of developments back home.

64. Vietnam - Political Culture
Vietnam s political culture has been determined by a number of factors of which therefore, incorporate as much from the national mythology as from the
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Vietnam Table of Contents Vietnam's political culture has been determined by a number of factors of which communism is but the latest. The country's political tradition is one of applying borrowed ideas to indigenous conditions. In many ways, Marxism-Leninism simply represents a new language in which to express old but consistent cultural orientations and inclinations. Vietnam's political processes, therefore, incorporate as much from the national mythology as from the pragmatic concerns engendered by current issues. Nevertheless, Confucian traits were still discernible in Vietnam in the mid-1980s. To begin with, many of the first- generation communist leaders came from scholar-official backgrounds and were well-versed in the traditional requisites of "talent and virtue" ( tai duc ) necessary for leadership. Ho Chi Minh's father was a Confucian scholar, and Vo Nguyen Giap and the brothers Le Duc Tho and Mai Chi Tho were from scholarly families. They cultivated an image of being incorruptible and effective administrators as well as moral leaders. The relationship between the government and the governed was also deliberately structured to parallel the Confucian system. Like the Confucians, leaders of the highly centralized Vietnamese ccommunist government stressed the importance of the village and clearly defined its relationship to the center.

65. Traditional Festivals Of Vietnam -- ThingsAsian Article
vietnamese festivals combine ancient religious rituals, lively performances of Each local festival is based on the myth of its guardian spirit hero.
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Traditional Festivals of Vietnam By Barbara Cohen The first month of Tet is for family and festivities
The second month is for gambling
The third month is for games and parties
..................old Vietnamese saying Vietnamese festivals combine ancient religious rituals, lively performances of music and dance, and colorful images from mythology. They feature the solemn aspects of high mass on Easter Sunday, the skill testing and competitions of county fairs, the bonding of a block party and the uninhibited mass entertainment frenzy of a rock concert. The extravagant brilliance and religious elements of the rituals were curtailed after World War II. It was a time of austerity and of co-operativization of villages into large centrally controlled collectives. But since the market-oriented agricultural and economic reforms of the late 1980's, villages' authority and community consciousness have been re-established. The festivals are being revived, and with the new open policy it is now possible for international visitors to participate in the quintessential social and religious experiences of the Vietnamese people and to catch a glimpse of the country's soul.

66. Michael E. Tank: John Kerry And The Mythology Of The Vietnam War - A Veteran's P
International War Veterans Poetry Archives, Poetry and Short Stories about war and the consequences of war by War Veterans and Friends of War Veterans.
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JOHN KERRY AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE VIETNAM WAR
A VETERAN'S PERSPECTIVE
By Michael E. Tank
"The first casualty when war comes is truth." - Hiram W. Johnson Although not registered as one, I have considered myself a Democrat for most of my life and have mostly voted for that party. I did not vote for President Bush in the last election. I tell you all this so that you may understand, that although I am not an expert, I do have some experience and knowledge of the war. I mentioned my previous vote to show that I am not writing this simply along some party line. I am simply writing this as a Vietnam Veteran. One must also question how any human being can sustain three wounds of any consequence and heal from them all without missing any duty in just four months. Three wounds with no lost days of duty for recuperation just do not happen. Back in the real world, as we used to say, even Superman has to shake off the cobwebs after getting clobbered once in a while. Three Purples and not to skip a beat is a mockery to all those brave men, and now unfortunately those brave women, who have had to suffer for theirs. But the medals and his actions in Vietnam are not the true issues here. They are just the kindling that has been ignited to burn down this house of cards framed with his constant boasting of his answer "...to the call of duty to my country." Although, after thirty years, the kindling seems too wet and thus hard to ignite, these seekers of the truth now have the luxury of written testimony, plus audio and videotapes, to finally know the real story of John F. Kerry. I wonder if it will matter. It hasn't so far.

67. Vietnam
According to mythology, the first ruler of Vietnam was Hung Vuong, who founded the nation in 2879 BC China ruled the nation then known as Nam Viet as a
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68. Fog Watch
The Vietnam War and the myth of a liberal media, Part 3. By Edward S. Herman. It is part of conservative mythology that the mainstream media, especially the
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Fog Watch: All The News Fit To Print The Vietnam War and the myth
of a liberal media, Part 3 By Edward S. Herman It is part of conservative mythology that the mainstream media, especially the
Vietnam War Context
Having imposed a puppet, refused to allow the unifying election, evaded a local settlement that would give the majority representation, and resorted to extreme violence to compel the Vietnamese to accept our preferred rulers, a reasonable use of words tells us that the U.S. was engaging in aggression in Vietnam. New York Times In his Without Fear Or Favor , Harrison Salisbury acknowledged that in 1962 the Times began to question the war and moved into an increasingly oppositional stance, culminating in the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Times Times writers the patriotic double standard was internalized, and any oppositional tendency was fatally compromised by acceptance of the legitimacy of U.S. intervention, which limited their questioning to matters of tactics and costs. Furthermore, although from 1965 onward the

69. ZNet Commentary: Both Sides In Debate About Kerry’s Vietnam Service Ignore
In 1971, Kerry was one of the Vietnam veterans who tired to force the country to face these realities. Lying about that is crucial to our mythology.
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USEFUL SUSTAINER LINKS YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION ZNET'S TOP PAGE ZNet DAILY ZINE PAGE COMMENTARY AUTHORS ... SUSTAINER PROGRAM FEEDBACK CUSTOMIZE September 17, 2004 Both Sides In Debate About Kerry’s Vietnam Service Ignore The Truth Of The War By Robert Jensen It's ironic that John Kerry's character is under assault for the most courageous political act of his life his opposition to the Vietnam War. It's pathetic that instead of highlighting that part of his political history, Kerry is downplaying it. But the saddest aspect of the whole affair is that a campaign controversy that could help the United States come to terms with bigger truths about its brutal history of empire building is being used by both parties in ways that obscure the truth. On one side is the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," a group of Vietnam veterans playing the role of Bush campaign surrogate pit-bull to call into question Kerry's record as a young naval officer in Vietnam. On the other is the Kerry campaign, taking every chance it can to portray the candidate as a Vietnam War hero and ignore his history as an antiwar activist. This Swift boat group doesn't hide the motivation for their attacks: They are still angry that Kerry returned from his tour of duty as an opponent of the war and talked openly about U.S. war crimes in Southeast Asia. The group's website denounces Kerry and the group he was part of, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, for what it calls a "war crimes disinformation campaign." Translated, that means that Kerry and VVAW tried to speak honestly about the horrific nature of the U.S. attack on South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

70. Vietnam Veterans Against The War: THE VETERAN: The Mythology Continues
The mythology Continues. By Joe Miller (Reviewer) Thirteen Illinois and Indiana Vietnam veterans, men and women, reflect on their war experiences in
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71. Vietnam Veterans Against The War: THE VETERAN: The Mythology Continues
The mythology Continues. By Joe Miller (Reviewer). Vietnam Soldiers Stories A documentary from WILLTV (PBS station at the University of Illinois at
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=103&print=yes

72. Beliefnet.com
Read legends and folktales from Vietnam, see Dong Ho prints and water puppets, Read about Pele, Maui, and other Hawaiian gods and mythology in this
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73. Introduction
Early vietnamese history is intertwined with myths about the. gods of the sea and air and mountains, coming together to create and shape the world of the
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74. Interlibrary Loan / SAC Library & Media Services
Presents a collection of Internet resources on mythology and folklore, Discusses how the holiday is celebrated in Vietnam, Japan, China, Europe, Greece,
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FOLKLORE, FAIRY TALES, AND MYTHOLOGY
Interesting web sites that give background information and links to folklore, folk tales, social customs, holidays, urban legends, fairy tales, and mythology
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FOLKLORE AND URBAN LEGENDS
  • American Folklore
    This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. You can read about all sorts of famous characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and many more. Check the Story Index if you need it.
  • Archive X: Ghost Stories and Folklore
    Portion of the Virtual Library with "personal experience" narratives of ghost stories and urban legends.
  • At the Edge
    Sponsored by the Heart of Albion Press, this site contains an archive of articles originally published in At the Edge and its predecessor, Mercian Mysteries, between 1989 and 1998. In 1998 At the Edge merged with 3rd Stone magazine, which in turn ceased publication at the end of 2003. Exploring new interpretations of past and place in archaeology, folklore and mythology, this archive includes about 90 online articles.
  • British Columbia Folklore Society
    Folklore, folk songs, some social customs, with tips on how to collect your own family folklore.
  • 75. CNN - Giant Turtle Sightings Set Vietnam Capital Abuzz - Apr. 13, 1998
    Rare giant turtles reportedly spotted in a downtown Hanoi, Vietnam lake mythology and science mix in the work of Hanoi National University s Professor
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    Ceramic turtle on display at Hanoi National University April 13, 1998 Web posted at: 1:56 p.m. EDT (1756 GMT) HANOI, Vietnam (AP) The Vietnamese capital of Hanoi is buzzing with excitement following reported sightings of rare giant turtles in a downtown lake where thousands of pedestrians pass daily. And amateur video footage purportedly of the turtles, long believed to be nothing more than myth and legend, now has skeptics wondering whether the giant beasts really do exist. For years, people have reported sighting three giant turtles in Hanoi's Hoan Kiem Lake. The latest sighting, and perhaps one of the most credible, came on March 24, when passersby caught a glimpse of the turtles as they surfaced to take in the spring air. Rare giant turtles reportedly spotted in a downtown Hanoi, Vietnam lake 1.4 MB / 13 sec. / 320x240 395 K / 13 sec. / 160x120 QuickTime movie An amateur cameraman caught the creatures' appearance on video, which subsequently aired on Vietnamese television. The station also claimed the turtles made a second appearance on April 5. Researchers who have been trying to get a glimpse of the turtles believe they could be the only ones of their kind in the world.

    76. Historian Backfire A History Of How American Culture Led Us Into
    Backfire, one of the best general treatments of the Vietnam War and US culture, the vietnamese perspective, including their cultural myths and how they
    http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2082/is_4_62/ai_64910253

    77. The War In Vietnam And The Movies: A Short Bibliography Of Materials In The UC B
    McKeever, Robert J. American Myths and the Impact of the Vietnam War Vietnam and the Hollywood Genre Film Inversions of American mythology in The
    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/VietnamBib.html
    The War in Vietnam and the Movies: A Short Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
  • Books
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  • Books
    Adair, Gilbert.
    Vietnam on Film: From The Green berets to Apocalypse Now / Gilbert Adair. New York : Proteus: distributed by Scribner, c1981.
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    Vietnam on Film: From The Green Berets to Apocalypse Now / Gilbert Adair. New York: Proteus: distributed by Scribner, c1981.
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    America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War.
    Edited by Owen W. Gilman, Jr., Lorrie Smith. New York: Garland, 1990. Series title: Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 986.
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    Bates, Milton J.
    The Wars We Took to Vietnam: Cultural Conflict and Storytelling / Milton J. Bates. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996.
  • 78. Vietnam - POLITICAL CULTURE
    The major influences on vietnamese political culture were of Chinese origin. The party has presented the myths and realities of the past in a manner
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    Country Listing Vietnam Table of Contents
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    POLITICAL CULTURE
    Vietnam's political culture has been determined by a number of factors of which communism is but the latest. The country's political tradition is one of applying borrowed ideas to indigenous conditions. In many ways, Marxism-Leninism simply represents a new language in which to express old but consistent cultural orientations and inclinations. Vietnam's political processes, therefore, incorporate as much from the national mythology as from the pragmatic concerns engendered by current issues. The major influences on Vietnamese political culture were of Chinese origin. Vietnam's political institutions were forged by 1,000 years of Chinese rule (111 B.C. to A.D. 939). The ancient Chinese system, based on Confucianism, established a political center surrounded by loyal subjects. The Confucians stressed the importance of the village, endowing it with autonomy but clearly defining its relationship to the center. Those who ruled did so with the "mandate of heaven." Although they were not themselves considered divine, they ruled by divine right by reason of their virtue, which was manifested in moral righteousness and compassion for the welfare of the people. A monarch possessing these traits received the unconditional loyalty of his subjects. Selection of bureaucratic officials was on the basis of civil service examinations rather than heredity, and government institutions were viewed simply as conduits for the superior wisdom of the rulers (see

    79. Kerry
    But in 1971, John Kerry was among the Vietnam War veterans who did that, telling the Senate Foreign Lying about that is crucial to our mythology.
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    Kerry's hypocrisy on Vietnam War Robert Jensen
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    rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu posted on Counterpunch , August 2, 2004. by Robert Jensen In a hyper-patriotic country, it can be difficult to tell the truth about the barbarism of one’s own leaders. But in 1971, John Kerry was among the Vietnam War veterans who did that, telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “[T]here is nothing in South Vietnam which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom … is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart.” If hypocrisy from those seeking high office is inevitable, then we should not be surprised that candidate Kerry ignored his own critique of that war when at the Democratic convention he proudly proclaimed, “I defended this country as a young man and I will defend it as president.” Kerry’s actions while he was in the Navy in Vietnam may have been reprehensible and his critique when he returned may have been too cautious, but in 1971 he stated clearly that the war had nothing to do with defending the United States. Yet to position himself today as tough on “national security,” Kerry is conveniently forgetting what he once knew.

    80. Amputees & Back-seaters
    This myth claims that the vietnamese did not release the US POWs in the first two bullets because they did not want to have the deficiencies of their
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    Amputees and Back Seaters
    Summary . Let us now dispel another myth generated by the MIA cult: US POWs were not returned at the end of the war because they: had amputated limbs, severe burns, or other disfiguring injuries; had been driven insane by their treatment; were special prizes because of their technical knowledge. This myth claims that the Vietnamese did not release the US POWs in the first two bullets because they did not want to have the deficiencies of their medical system exposed. For the third bullet, the claim is that these prized Americans, with advanced degrees or special technical knowledge about weapons and weapons systems, were sent to the Soviet Union, China, or some other place as re-payment for support given to Vietnam in the way. None of these myths is true but that has not prevented them from becoming part of the MIA cult canon.
    Amputees, burn cases, disfiguring injuries
    A constant refrain that one hears from the MIA cult is that, among the US POWs who returned from Vietnam, there were none with amputated limbs, severe injuries, disfiguring burns, or other disfiguring injuries. They then go on to reason that, in the number of Americans lost during the war, there had to be men with such injuries who survived. The activists also argue that US POWs had to have been severely injured while being tortured by the Vietnamese. POWs with such injures did not return because the Vietnamese stashed them away in some secret prison and refused to release them for fear of exposing the serious deficiencies in their medical system.

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