LULLABIES OF VIETNAM:
Journey to Independence, Freedom and Happiness
LỜI RU NƯỚC VIỆT:
Con đường đến Độc lập, Tự do, Hạnh phúc
Introduced by Dai Trang Nguyen
Publication date: May 2020
Toronto, Canada
ISBN: 978-0-9866079-8-1 (print)
ISBN: 978-0-9866079-7-4 (e-book)
Book Description: This Vietnamese-English bilingual book is a collection of 25 songs/poems among many that have sustained the spirits of the Vietnamese people throughout a journey of thousands of years with long and difficult struggles to end Chinese domination, French colonial rule, and American military intervention, and to develop the country today.
Table of Contents
1. Vietnamese culture
2. Resistance to Chinese domination
3. Resistance to French colonialism and Japanese fascism (1862 – 1945)
4. Resistance to French recolonization (1946-1954)
5. Anti-war sentiment in the South
6. National resistance to American intervention (1955 – 1975)
7. Liberation of the South (1975)
8. National reunification and rebuilding (1976 – present)
