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 111BCE TO 972AD CHINESE COLONIZATION 1860 TO 1954 FRENCH COLONIZATION 1954 TO 1975 THE VIETNAM WAR ELDEST SON, HUNG VUONG, BEGAN THE VIETNAMESE MONARCH

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 ST. JOSEPH’S CATHEDRAL NOTRE DAME IN PARIS

FRENCH QUARTER AN INTERSECTION IN PARIS

HANOI MILITARY MUSEUM

“JUST WAIT. YOU WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH THE ART THERE.” “[ARTISTS TODAY] ARE INTEGRATING THE TRADITIONAL INTO THE MODERN AND EXPRESSING THEMSELVES IN NEW WAYS.” FROM “ THE AWAKENING OF HANOI” BY JENNIFER CONLIN, NEW YORK TIMES

VU DAN TAN PIONEER OF VIETNAMESE CONTEMPORARY ART

MAI ANH A “DREAMY” CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

HOANG ART

ZIGI “IT IS OUR GIFT TO THE CITY”

POETRY AND NATIONAL POETRY DAY 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

“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