Reading Notes
Week 9
Part A
- pg.537-541 is information about Vietnam,India, China and enjoy the addition of the map on pg. 540. The map gives me a picture of the settings and how at the time these empires were so close to each other. Allowing them to not see eye to eye causing tension to run high between the two.
- On pg. 541 it shows a French Colonial family posing next to a machine gun. The picture even had the kids in the picture making me understand how at the time war was normal to the citizens, that huge guns were backgrounds for a picture.
- Also on the same page it explains how Vietnam was ruled by China for over a thousand years and it took until the tenth century were in a famous Battle of the Bach Dang River ending the golden years of Chinese rule.
- Explains how Indians in the 19th century "passed from one vast imperial power to another".
- In China they proved to me strong and independent and Europeans wanted most of the products they manufactured especially the beauty care but their money flooded China's system I believe and caused China to isolate themselves. This ended in the 19th century though.
- "The Tale of Kieu" is the master of Vietnamese literature and many people that are Vietnamese can recite the full 3,000 lined piece of poetry.
- People even used this text to define their future and how they continue life.
- A story of a young women forced into prostitution and slavery but has to come to the stand for her nation that is being attacked by foreign enemies and tyrants flooded the land to control the people.
- The story is also a love story that has many themes and is just a great piece of Vietnamese literature.
- Nguyen Du's "The Tale of Kieu" is considered the best of Vietnamese literature.
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