At the beginning of 1956, the president of the Republic of Vietnam ordered the establishment of the Historical Research Institute (Viện Khảo-Cổ) under the Ministry of Education.
This institute had a broad mission. It was to research about the history and culture of Vietnam from the past to the present and to do so in a multidisciplinary manner.
In 1960 the institute began publishing a journal, the Transactions of the Historical Research Institute (Việt-Nam Khảo-Cổ Tâp-San).
The first issue featured research articles by Chen Jinghe on the Chinese community in Hội An, Trương Bửu Lâm on the modern period in Vietnamese history, Bửu Cầm on the strengths and weaknesses of Nôm, and Phạm Đình Khiêm on historical sites in Quảng Nam and Phú Yên.
It also contained essays that introduced materials of historical interest, and book reviews.
For anyone interested in reading this issue of the Transactions of the Historical Research Institute, click on the link below:
When did written Vietnamese stop hyphenating compound words? I seem to see it a fair amount in texts from the 60’s, but never in modern texts (as an English speaker learning Vietnamese, I rather wish the convention had continued, as it would make reading a lot easier for beginners, and I suspect make machine translation of Vietnamese much less of a disaster.)
I don’t know for sure, but I want to say that people stopped doing that in the North in the 1950s and that this became national policy after 1975.
If one was to cite one of the articles for an essay, what would be an accurate citation in the bibliography?
Trương Bửu Lâm, “Vàn nhận xết về thời hiện đại trong Việt sử” [Some Reflections on the Contemporary Period in Vietnamese History], Việt Nam Khảo Cổ Tập San [Transactions of the Historical Research Institute] Vol. 1 (1960): [then put the page number(s) you are citing here].
In bibliography:
Trương Bửu Lâm. “Vàn nhận xết về thời hiện đại trong Việt sử” [Some Reflections on the Contemporary Period in Vietnamese History]. Việt Nam Khảo Cổ Tập San [Transactions of the Historical Research Institute] Vol. 1 (1960): 34-44.
Cool, thanks.
Thank you very much for generously sharing this valuable journal.