Date of recording:
October 7, 2022
Duration:
35:34 min
About the Speaker
Kathlene Baldanza, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Penn State University, historian of early modern Vietnam and China.
Slides for Classroom Use
The Historical Relationship between Vietnam and China – Presentation PDF [14 MB]
Teaching Guide
Outline & Key Points for Teachers
Background Reading and Classroom Material
Vietnam: Timeline of Historical Periods [AFE]
Central Themes for a Unit on Vietnam [AFE]
Primary Sources with DBQ – Vietnam [AFE]
Asia by Era Resources – Vietnam [AFE]
See each time period for different resources through history.
The Art of Nom [Antenna Films]
Recommended by the speaker.
Why Study Vietnam? [Weatherhead East Asian Institute]
Books
The Tale of Kieu [Yale University Press]
By Nguyen Du Truyen, translated by Thong, Huynh Sanh. Recommended by speaker as a teaching resource. This 19th century poem is considered the masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. This new translation is printed alongside the Vietnamese text and includes “comparative passages from the Chinese novel on which the poem was based, details on Chinese allusions, and literal translations with background information explaining Vietnamese proverbs and folk sayings.”
Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia [Cambridge University Press]
By Kathleen Baldanza.
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This recording was made possible in part by an award from
the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
