Young, A History of Vietnam Lecture Series (2010)

Stephen B. Young.
A History of Vietnam Lecture Series.
Vietnam Center of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2010.

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Lecture Information:

• Stephen B. Young, Law School, University of Minnesota.
• Stephen B. Young - Resume, Law School, University of Minnesota.
• Vietnam Center, Facebook.
• Photo Album, VNC History Lecture Series 2010, Facebook.
• Three titles are given below for each video:
  1. the YouTube video title which includes "Part # of 6";
  2. the title card which appears a few seconds into each video; and
  3. a descriptive title which indicates the years covered by the lecture.
• The lecture series consists of seven YouTube videos:
  1. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 1 of 6, YouTube.
     • "The Origins of the Vietnamese: Fact and Myth"
     • Vietnam, Pre-History to 938 A.D. (Pre-History to the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam).
  2. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 2 of 6, YouTube.
     • "The Buddhist Dynasties: Lý, Trần and Lê"
     • Vietnam from 938 to 1433 (from the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam to Lê Lợi).
  3. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 3 of 6, YouTube.
     • "The Imposition of Chinese Neo-Confucianism under the Lê, Mạc, and Trịnh"
     • Vietnam from 1479 to 1802 (from the Lê dynasty to the end of the Tây Sơn dynasty).
  4. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 4 of 6, YouTube.
     • "The Tây Sơn Challenge; The Nguyễn Restoration of Orthodoxy; And the Arrival of the West"
     • Vietnam during the 19th Century (from the end of the Tây Sơn dynasty to the Nguyễn dynasty and French colonization).
  5. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 5 of 6, YouTube.
     • "Vietnam in Modern Times: French Rule and the Rise of Nationalism"
     • Vietnam under the French through the 1930s.
  6. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 6a of 6, YouTube.
     • "Communism and the Vietnam Wars"
     • Vietnam from the 1940s through 1965 (from World War II through the First Indochina War to the Americanization of the Second Indochina War).
  7. A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 6b of 6, YouTube.
     • "Communism and the Vietnam Wars"
     • Vietnam from 1965 to 1975 (from the Americanization of the Second Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon).
• My notes for each lecture follow below.
• Observation about Wikipedia articles for people who don't read Vietnamese. Many of the English Wikipedia articles on Vietnamese topics are relatively short (for example, that for the poet Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm). In the left margin of the Wikipedia page is a list of other language Wikipedias that have a corresponding article in that language. The one in Vietnamese, labeled "Tiếng Việt", will often be significantly longer, more detailed, than the English language article. Google Chrome browser will translate these Vietnamese articles into adequate English (or perhaps into some other language you prefer).

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A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 1 of 6, YouTube.

• title card: "The Origins of the Vietnamese: Fact and Myth"
• Vietnam, Pre-History to 938 A.D. (Pre-History to the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam).
• History of Vietnam.
• Culture of Vietnam.
• Vietnamese calendar.
• Tết, Vietnamese New Year.
• Lunar calendar.
• Lunisolar calendar.
• Sexagenary cycle, this 60 year cycle is mentioned in a later lecture.
• Yin and Yang.
• Qi.
• Vietnamese people.
• China: Han Chinese.
• List of ethnic groups in Vietnam.
• East Asian cultural sphere.
• I Ching.
• Taoism.
  Taoism in Vietnam.
• Bách Việt, Baiyue, Hundred Yue or Yue.
• Lecture statement: In 939 AD the Viet defeat/expel the Chinese.
  (Details: Ngô Quyền (897–944), founder of the Ngô dynasty, 939–965, leads the Vietnamese to the Battle of Bạch Đằng (938) to defeat the Southern Han which marks the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam, 602–905 or 938.)
• Vietnamese language.
• Vietnamese cuisine.
• Vietnamese clothing.
• Áo dài.
• Religion in Vietnam.
• Vietnamese folk religion.
  Đạo Mẫu, the worship of mother goddesses in Vietnam.
  Three Palaces, Four Palaces (Tam Phủ, Tứ Phủ).
• Âu Cơ, an immortal mountain fairy who married Lạc Long Quân ("Dragon Lord of Lac"), and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bách Việt, ancestors to the Vietnamese people.
• Lạc Long Quân, mythical dragon-king, father of the Vietnamese people, became king in 2793 B.C.
• Kim Qui, the Golden Turtle God.
• Buddhism.
  Mahayana Buddhism.
  Buddhism in Vietnam.
• Trúc Lâm, a Vietnamese Thiền (i.e. zen) sect.
• Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương, Buddhist sect originating in the Mekong Delta during or after the reign of Minh Mạng (mid 19th Century).
• Huỳnh Phú Sổ (1920–1947), founder of Hòa Hảo, 1939.
• Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng, Đại Việt or DVQDD, Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam, founded 1939.
• Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng, Vietnamese Wikipedia, longer than the English Wikipedia article.
• Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng, daivietquocdandang.net.
• Dân Tộc Sinh Tồn.
• Trương Tử Anh (1914–1946), founder of Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng.
• Đại Việt Duy Dân, founded 01 January 1943.
• Lý Đông A (1921-1947), founder of Đại Việt Duy Dân.
• Cao Đài, established 1926.
• Nguyễn dynasty, 1802–1945.
• Battle of Bạch Đằng (938), end of Chinese imperial domination in Vietnam.
• What does it mean to be Vietnamese?
• Nguyễn Du (1765–1820). The Tale of Kieu. Translated by Huynh Sanh Thong. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Destiny.
  Yuanfen.
• Vietnamese Face Reading. European Physiognomy.
• Geomancy. Feng shui, Chinese geomancy.
• Individualism.
• Neo-Confucianism.
• Intermission. Musical Interlude.
• Matrifocal family.
• Vietnamese family life.
• When did Vietnamese culture emerge?
• Lecture statement: In 1428 Ming soldiers burn Hanoi, destroying records or removing them to China.
  (Details: During the Fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam, 1407–1427, Vietnamese culture is suppressed in which most Vietnamese documents are lost. Lê Lợi (c. 1384 – 1433) leads the Lam Sơn uprising, 1418–1428, which expels the Ming Chinese from Vietnam.)
• Âu Cơ, an immortal mountain fairy who married Lạc Long Quân ("Dragon Lord of Lac"), and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bách Việt, ancestors to the Vietnamese people.
• Lạc Long Quân, mythical dragon-king, father of the Vietnamese people, became king in 2793 B.C.
• Hồng Bàng dynasty, 2879 B.C. – 258 B.C.
• China: Qin Shi Huang (259 BC – 210 BC).
  China: Terracotta Army.
  China: Qin dynasty, 221 BC – 206 BC.
• Animism.
• Âu Lạc, 257 BCE – 179 BCE.
• Nam Việt or Nanyue, 204 BC – 111 BC, established at the end of the Qin dynasty by Zhao Tuo (c. 240 BC – 137 BC), also known as Triệu Đà.
• Triệu dynasty, 204 BC – 111 BC.
• China: Han dynasty, 202 BC–9 AD; 25 AD–220 AD.
  China: Southward expansion of the Han dynasty.
• Han conquest of Nanyue, 111 BC.
  First Chinese domination of Vietnam, 111 BC – 40 AD.
• Trưng Sisters (c. AD 12 – c. AD 43), expelled the Han Chinese in 40 AD.
• Trung sisters' rebellion, 40–43.
• Second Chinese domination of Vietnam, 43–544 followed the suppression of the Trung sisters' rebellion.
• Buddhism in Vietnam.
• Lý Nam Đế (503–548), founder of the Early Lý dynasty, 544–602.
• Third Chinese domination of Vietnam, 602–905 or 938.
• China: Tang dynasty, 618–907.
  China: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, 10th century.
  China: Song dynasty, 960–1279.
• Ngô Quyền (897–944), founder of the Ngô dynasty, 939–965.
• Battle of Bạch Đằng (938), marks the end of Third Chinese domination of Vietnam.
• Anarchy of the 12 Warlords or "Thập Nhị Sứ Quân Rebellion," 966–968.
• Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (924–979), founder of the Đinh dynasty, 968–980.
• Lê Hoàn (941–1005), founder of the Early Lê dynasty, 980–1009.

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A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 2 of 6, YouTube.

• title card: "The Buddhist Dynasties: Lý, Trần and Lê"
• Vietnam from 938 to 1433 (from the end of the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam to Lê Lợi).
• History of Vietnam.
• Nation state.
• Buddhism in Vietnam.
• Yin and Yang.
• Taoism in Vietnam.
• Animism.
• Easter Offensive, March – October 1972.
• 1975 Spring Offensive.
• China: Tang dynasty, 618–907.
  China: Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, 10th century.
  China: Song dynasty, 960–1279.
• Neo-Confucianism.
  Filial piety.
  For a discussion of hieu and on see Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (1993), pages 16-17.
• Ngô Quyền (897–944), founder of the Ngô dynasty, 939–965.
• Anarchy of the 12 Warlords or "Thập Nhị Sứ Quân Rebellion," 966–968.
• Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (924–979), founder of the Đinh dynasty, 968–980.
• Lê Hoàn (941–1005), founder of the Early Lê dynasty, 980–1009.
• Lý Công Uẩn (974–1028), (r. 1009–1028), Emperor of Đại Cồ Việt, founder of the Later Lý dynasty, 1009–1225; also known as Đại Việt Hoàng Đế (Wikipedia says his posthumous imperial title was "Thần Võ Hoàng Đế"), Giao Chỉ Công Vượng(?) by the Chinese, Nam Bin Vượng(?) by the Chinese, and Lý Thái Tổ (royal title).
• Later Lý dynasty, 1009–1225.
• Edict on the Transfer of the Capital, 1010.
• Thăng Long, "Rising Dragon," the city later known as Hà Nội (Hanoi).
• Vạn Hạnh (938–1018), Buddhist monk who was a teacher and patron of Lý Công Uẩn / Lý Thái Tổ.
• Khuông Việt (933–1011), Buddhist monk, poet.
• Lý Thánh Tông (1023–1072), third Emperor of the Lý dynasty, 1054–1072.
• Đại Việt (literally "Great Viet"), the name of Vietnam for the periods 1054–1400 and 1428–1804.
• Nam tiến ("southward advance" or "march to the south"), the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam from the 11th century to the mid-18th century.
• Champa.
• One Pillar Pagoda, Hanoi.
Lý Nhân Tông (1066–1128), fourth Emperor of the Lý dynasty 1072–1128.
• Quốc Tử Giám, the first Vietnamese university established in 1076.
• Lý–Song War, 1075–1077.
  Wang Anshi (1021–1086), chancellor of the Song dynasty, 1070-1074 and 1075–1076.
• Lý Thường Kiệt (1019–1105), Vietnamese general and admiral during the Lý Dynasty.
• Nam quốc sơn hà, Mountains and Rivers of the Southern Country, 1076.
• Names of Vietnam.
• Annam, the "Protectorate General to Pacify the South".
  (The name Annam originated as the name of a Chinese southern province which included the Red River Delta region. This explains the later irritation of the Vietnamese at the use of this name by the French; it is a name of foreign domination.)
• Lý dynasty: Decline.
• Lý dynasty: Rise of Trần clan, 1180s to 1220s.
  Lý Cao Tông (1173–1210), seventh Emperor of the Lý dynasty 1175–1210, weak emperor.
• Lý Huệ Tông (1194–1226), penultimate Emperor of the Lý dynasty 1211–1224, weak emperor.
• Trần Thủ Độ (1194–1264), general and grand chancellor; maneuvered the Trần family to succeed the Lý dynasty; uncle of Trần Thái Tông (1218–1277), birth name Trần Cảnh, first Emperor of the Trần dynasty 1226–1258.
• Lý Chiêu Hoàng (1218–1278), the ninth and last sovereign of the Lý dynasty 1224–1225; the only empress regnant in the history of Vietnam; married Trần Cảnh and abdicated in favor of her husband who thereby became the first Emperor of the Trần dynasty.
• Trần dynasty, 1225-1400.
• Lecturer reads some stories from the time of the Lý dynasty.
• Intermission. Musical Interlude.
• Trần Thủ Độ (1194–1264), suppressed remnants of the Lý dynasty.
• Elimination of non-communist nationalists, 1946.
  (This was distinct from the later North Vietnamese (DRV) executions of "landlords" under land reform during the 1950s.)
• Trúc Lâm, a Vietnamese Thiền (i.e. zen) sect.
• Mongol invasions of Vietnam, 1258, 1285 and 1287–88.
  Battle of Bạch Đằng (1288), defeat of the Mongols; Mongol Navy destroyed.
• Trần Hưng Đạo (1228–1300), military commander of Đại Việt during the Trần Dynasty.
• Lecturer reads some poems from the Trần dynasty.
• Decline of the Trần dynasty.
• Nam tiến ("southward advance" or "march to the south"), the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam from the 11th century to the mid-18th century.
• Hồ Quý Ly (1336-1407?), high official in the Trần dynasty; overthrows the Trần dynasty; first emperor of the Hồ dynasty; renames the country Đại Ngu.
• Hồ dynasty, 1400–1407.
• China: Song dynasty, 960–1279.
  China: Yuan dynasty, 1271–1368.
  China: Ming dynasty, 1368–1644.
• Ming–Hồ War, 1400–1407; Ming Chinese invasion of Vietnam; overthrows the Hồ dynasty; initiates the Fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam.
• Fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam, 1407–1427.
• Later Trần dynasty period of 1407 to 1413.
• Lam Sơn uprising, 1418-1427, uprising led by Lê Lợi against Ming rule.
• Lê Lợi (c. 1384–1433), Emperor of Đại Việt, 1428–1433; founder of the Later Lê dynasty; renamed the country back to Đại Việt and moved the capital back to Thăng Long.
• Lê dynasty (Later Lê dynasty), 1427–1527 and 1533–1789.
• Nguyễn Trãi (1380–1442), poet.
• Nguyễn Trãi, "Bình Ngô đại cáo," 1428 ("Great proclamation upon the pacification of the Wu").
• Huynh Sanh Thong, editor and translator. Heritage of Vietnamese Poetry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
  [Amazon.com.]
  A more recently published anthology of Vietnamese poetry also edited by Huynh Sanh Thong is:
  Huynh Sanh Thong, editor and translator. An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh Through the Twentieth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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A History of Vietnam Lecture Series: Part 3 of 6, YouTube.

• title card: "The Imposition of Chinese Neo-Confucianism under the Lê, Mạc, and Trịnh"
• Vietnam from 1479 to 1802 (from the Lê dynasty to the end of the Tây Sơn dynasty)
• History of Vietnam.
• Lê dynasty (Later Lê dynasty), 1427–1527 and 1533–1789.
• Nguyễn Trãi (1380–1442), poet.
• For a discussion of Nghia see Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (1993), page 19.
• For a discussion of Nhan see Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (1993), page 20.
• Neo-Confucianism.
• Filial piety.
  For a discussion of Hieu see Jamieson, Understanding Vietnam (1993), pages 16-17.
• Lê Thánh Tông (1442–1497), Emperor of Đại Việt 1460–1497.
  Lecturer: "He begins the process of the second phase of Vietnamese history ... bringing in a system from China and backing away from this traditional Vietnamese value system, belief system, and set of practices.... The distinction is between a system rooted in individual moral character and a Chinese system which is rooted in formal obedience to the family and the state.... Nhan and Nghia versus Hieu."
• China: Song dynasty, 960–1279.
• What happened in 1479? (This was during the reign of the notable emperor Lê Thánh Tông.)
• Ngô Sĩ Liên (lived during 15th century), historian.
• Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư (Complete Annals of Đại Việt), compiled by Ngô Sĩ Liên, finished in 1479, a new official history of Vietnam.
• Regions of Vietnam:
  • Bắc Kỳ, Northern Vietnam
  • Trung Kỳ, Central Vietnam
  • Nam Kỳ, Southern Vietnam
• Geographical Regions of Vietnam:
  • Northern Vietnam
  • Central Vietnam
  • Southern Vietnam
• List of regions of Vietnam.
  This is a current classification of the regions of Vietnam.
• Lê Thánh Tông: The conquest of neighbors.
  Champa.
  Cham–Vietnamese War (1471).
• Lê Thánh Tông: The rise of Confucianism.
• Lecturer reads a sample of Confucian rules; poems by Lê Thánh Tông.
• Lê dynasty: Mạc Đăng Dung usurps the throne, 1527.
• Mạc Đăng Dung (1483?–1541), a high official in the Lê dynasty; established the Mạc dynasty.
• Mạc dynasty, 1527–1677.
• Nguyễn Kim (1476–1545), ancestor of the Nguyễn lords; starts war with Mạc dynasty; restores Lê dynasty in the south.
• Nguyễn lords, 1558–1777, ruled southern Vietnam.
• Trịnh Kiểm (1503–1570), founder of the Trịnh lords; son-in-law of Nguyễn Kim.
• Trịnh lords, 1545–1787, ruled northern Vietnam.
• Lê–Mạc War, 1533–1677. In 1592 the forces supporting the rival Lê dynasty (i.e., the Nguyễn and Trịnh lords) reconquer Thang Long, the capital of Mạc dynasty, marking the end of Southern and Northern Dynasties Period.
• Mạc dynasty: The last 80 years, until 1677.
• Nguyễn Hoàng (1525–1613), the first of the Nguyễn lords who ruled the southern provinces of Vietnam, 1558–1613; considered the founder of the Nguyễn dynasty, 1802-1945.
• Nam tiến ("southward advance" or "march to the south"), the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam from the 11th century to the mid-18th century.
• Nguyễn Phúc Nguyên (1563–1635), succeeded Nguyễn Hoàng, reigned 1613–1635.
• Trịnh–Nguyễn War(s), 1627–1673.
• Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm (1491–1585), poet, known as Trạng Trình.
• Sấm Trạng Trình (The Prophecies of Trạng Trình), prophetic poem by Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm / Trạng Trình.
• Lecturer reads some poems by Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm / Trạng Trình.
• Trịnh lords: The Trịnh–Nguyễn War.
• Artillery of the Nguyễn lords.
  European military technology contributed to the Nguyễn lords' success during the 17th century Trịnh–Nguyễn Wars.
• China: Transition from Ming to Qing, 1618–1683.
  China: Qing dynasty, 1636–1912.
• Christianity in Vietnam.
  Catholic Church in Vietnam.
• Intermission. Musical Interlude.
• Trịnh lords: The Long Peace.
  Discussion of Trịnh misrule during 1600s and 1700s.
• Francis Xavier: South East Asia, 1546.
• First Vietnamese Catholic church established in Đà Nẵng, 1615.
• Alexandre de Rhodes (1591–1660), French Jesuit missionary and lexicographer.
• Quốc Ngữ, Vietnamese Latin alphabet.
• Gia Ðịnh, later Saigon, later Ho Chi Minh City.
• Chợ Lớn.
• Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh (1650–1700), founder of Gia Ðịnh, 1698.
• Tây Sơn dynasty, 1778–1802.
  • Nguyễn Huệ (1753–1792), king of northern Vietnam, Emperor of Tây Sơn dynasty, 1788–1792, reign name Quang Trung.
  • Nguyễn Nhạc (d. 1788), king of central Vietnam, King of Tây Sơn, 1776–1778; Emperor of Tây Sơn dynasty, 1778–1788.
  • Nguyễn Lữ (d. 1787), king of the South.
• Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (1762–1820), also known as Nguyễn Ánh; later known as Gia Long, Emperor of Đại Việt, 1802–1804; Emperor of Việt Nam, 1804–1820; founder of the Nguyễn dynasty.
• Pierre Pigneau de Behaine (1741–1799), French Catholic priest; acquired military assistance for Nguyễn Ánh which contributed to the establishment of the Nguyễn dynasty.
• French assistance to Nguyễn Ánh.
• Treaty of Versailles (1787).
• Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh (1780–1801), also known as Prince Cảnh; visited France in 1787.
• France–Vietnam relations.
• Nguyễn Huệ: Overthrow of Trịnh Lords, 1786–1787.
• Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa, 1788–1789.
  Nguyễn Huệ: Defeat of Qing China, 1789.
• Sexagenary cycle: Sexagenary years.
  Gregorian year 1788 is Number 45, Mậu Thân, in the Sexagenary year cycle.
  Associations: Yang Earth Monkey.
• 1788 - 360 = 1428, year that the Ming Chinese were expelled by Lê Lợi.
• 1788 + (3*60) = 1968, year of the Tet Offensive, a defeat for the Communists.
• Nguyễn Huệ: National reforms.
• Nguyễn Huệ: The fate of Tây Sơn dynasty.
• Tây Sơn dynasty: Decline and fall.

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