MAP OF HANOI, VIETNAM

VIETNAM: THE LOVE OF LAC LONG QUAN & AU CO• LAC LONG QUAN,

DRAGON OF THE SOUTH FALLS IN LOVE WITH AU CO, THE FAIRY OF THE NORTH

• HAVE 100 CHILDREN TOGETHER BUT SEPARATE BACK TO NORTH AND SOUTH, TAKING 50 EACH WITH THEM

• ELDEST SON, HUNG VUONG, BEGAN THE VIETNAMESE MONARCH

111BCE TO 972AD CHINESE COLONIZATION1860 TO 1954 FRENCH COLONIZATION1954 TO 1975 THE VIETNAM WAR

HANOI: THE CITY OF THE RISING DRAGON• VIETNAM’S CAPITAL

AND ONE OF THE OLDEST CAPITALS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

• APPOINTED AS CAPITAL WHEN VIETNAM GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM CHINA

• EMPEROR LY CONG UAN SAID A GOLDEN DRAGON WELCOMED HIM TO HANOI THEN FLEW INTO THE SKY, THUS NAMED IT THANG LONG

• RENAMED TO HANOI, “AMID THE RIVERS” WHEN DENOUNCED CAPITAL BY EMPEROR GIA LONG IN 1802

HO CHI MINH, NORTH VIETNAM

COMMUNIST LEADER, NAMED HANOI CAPITAL ONCE AGAIN IN

1954

“HANOI REMAINED STRONG DESPITE VIETNAM’S

TUMULTUOUS CONTRADICTIONS: BETWEEN RUPTURE AND CONINUITY, REVOLT SUBMISSION… THE INTRUSION OF WESTERN MODERNITY AND THE

PRESERVATION OF TRADITION, AND FINALLY SOCIALISM AND A MARKET

ECONOMY”

- GEORGES BOUDAREL AND

NGUYEN VAN KY, HANOI: CITY OF THE

RISING DRAGON

INSIDE ST. JOSEPH’S

NOTRE DAME IN PARIS

ST. JOSEPH’S CATHEDRAL

FRENCH QUARTER

AN INTERSECTION IN PARIS

HANOI MILITARY MUSEUM

“JUST WAIT. YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH THE ART THERE.”

FROM “ THE AWAKENING OF HANOI” BY JENNIFER CONLIN, NEW YORK TIMES

“[ARTISTS TODAY] ARE INTEGRATING THE TRADITIONALINTO THE MODERN AND EXPRESSING THEMSELVES

IN NEW WAYS.”

VU DAN TANPIONEER OF VIETNAMESE CONTEMPORARY ART

MAI ANHA “DREAMY” CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

HOANG ART

ZIGI

“IT IS OUR GIFT TO THE CITY”

This is a city that nurtures the soul of a poet… It is not easily explained, but it is something you feel. In the touch of the mist… In the traditions, the lives of struggle.

- NGUYEN DUC MAU, VIETNAMESE RENOWNED POET

POETRY AND NATIONAL POETRY DAY

“THIS IS THE HANOI THAT FOUND ITS WAY INTO MY HEART-- A CITY FRESHLY

PAINTED, WALKING WITH THE SWAGGER OF THE

VICTORIOUS”

FROM “HANOI: SHREDDING THE GHOSTS OF WAR” DAVID LAMB IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC