http://www.economist.com/countries/Vietnam/
Mainstream Vietnamese cultures
http://www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/Viet_Na...file/-2159.html
For information on the number of internet users in Vietnam, go here
http://www.fabrinet.com/Articles-TFI-Thailand.htm
Overall picture of Vietnam, go here
http://www.oneworld.net/guides/vietnam/development
Please do not abuse the information from those websites, and they are only a rough guide.
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Vietnamese Calligraphy
Vietnam was the first to apply the Latin script to calligraphy. Vietnam has always been a country very at combining cultural elements to create our own style, be it in music, art, sport, warfare etc.
History of Vietnamese calligraphy
One of the most important sources for the study of early Vietnamese calligraphy is official coinage, which is first thought to have gone into circulation during the rule of the Đinh (967-980). By the 11th century proficiency in the art of calligraphy was regarded as a mark of breeding amongst educated literati, a number of whom are known to have prided themselves in being conversant with all five major types of Chinese calligraphic script. By the 14th and 15th centuries the special ideographic script devised for transcribing spoken Vietnamese known as chữ nôm was also being used widely by calligraphers.
The art of Vietnamese calligraphy was born in the 1930s under the influence of the New Poetry Movement (Phong trào Thơ mới) when Vietnamese poets began to write poems in the romanised script quốc ngữ rather than in Chinese and nôm. The new style of writing turned the romanised script itself into a form of art, so that the letters themselves reflected some of the ideas inherent in a word, phrase or poem.
After 1945 interest in calligraphy of all types declined, but today it is once more gaining popularity throughout the country thanks to leading exponents such as masters Lê Xuân Ḥa in Hà Nội, Trụ Vũ, Nguyễn Thanh Sơn, Song Nguyên and Chính Văn in Hồ Chí Minh City and artist Nguyễn Đ́nh in Huế. A small Calligraphy Garden recently opened in Huế, run by Đ́nh and Buddhist monks from Châu Lâm and Huyền Không Pagodas. A number of calligraphy clubs have also opened over the past few years in the capital city, leading to the emergence of promising young calligraphers such as Lê Quốc Việt, Đinh Thanh Hiếu, Nguyễn Tuấn Cường, Trần Ngọc Linh and Nguyễn Quang Thắng. The best contact point for Vietnamese calligraphy is the UNESCO Việt Nam Calligraphy Club.
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