A Glimpse of Vietnamese Oral Literature

About the Book

VIET NAM: The ancient Vietnamese believed that their nation came into existence in the third millennium before the Common Era. The excavated cultural remnants of the earliest inhabitants in the land suggest that their culture belonged to the Bronze-tools Age in around the 7th century before the Common Era. Vietnamese literature in oral form was first to appear in their earliest times long before their written language was established. Oral literature is viewed as a literary treasure of any country in the world of literature. One scholar in Europe once has suggested, "Les peuples se rejoingnent par leurs sommets, et par leurs racines, et different par l´entre-deux". That is, peoples in the world come across at the summit or great thoughts, and at the bottom or oral literature, and differ in spaces between the two.

About the Author

<> PHAM, DINH LOC entered his journalistic career with United Press International (UPI) in Saigon in 1962 as a by-line reporter, and at Saigon Daily News as a columnist. Mr. Pham was born in 1934 in the harbour city of Haiphong, North Viet Nam. He came to America in 1984 on the Orderly Departure Program to become a resident of the State of Maryland. He is a graduate of Hood College, MD where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy & the French Language, and attended the Graduate Program in Environmental Biology at Hood College, worked for the State of Maryland as a registered environmental sanitarian (RS), now retired, living in Frederick City, Maryland.