2. MAP OF HANOI, VIETNAM

3. 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

4. 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

5. “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

7. INSIDE ST. JOSEPH’S
ST. JOSEPH’S CATHEDRAL
NOTRE DAME IN PARIS

8. FRENCH QUARTER
AN INTERSECTION IN PARIS

9. HANOI MILITARY MUSEUM

10. “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

11. VU DAN TAN
PIONEER OF VIETNAMESE CONTEMPORARY ART

12. MAI ANH
A “DREAMY” CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

14. HOANG ART

15. ZIGI
“IT IS OUR GIFT TO THE CITY”

16. 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

17. “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