The Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies
The quarterly peer-review academic journal.
Editor-in-Chief
- Doctor of Economics, Professor Vladimir M. Mazyrin
ORCID: 0000-0001-6988-0139
Founder
- Center for Vietnam and ASEAN Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
About
The journal publishes original papers on various fields of Vietnamese studies: politics, economics, society, history, culture, philology, as well as reviews of scientific conferences dedicated to Vietnam, information on the defense of dissertations in Vietnamese studies, the most important official documents, book reviews about Vietnam and articles on leading Russian and Vietnamese scientists in this field.
The audience of the journal is scientists and academicians working in the area of Vietnamese studies, teachers and university students, as well as anyone interested in Vietnam.
Mission of the journal: integrate the results of scientific work of Russian and foreign scientists in various fields of Vietnamese studies into the international scientific space, be an international platform for scientific discussion, acquaint scientists and everyone interested in Vietnam with the latest research, scientific events and the latest literature about Vietnam.
Main research fields:
- Historical sciences and archeology
- Economic Sciences
- Philological sciences (Literary criticism; Linguistics)
- Sociological sciences
- Political science
- Culturology
Indexation
- Web of Science
- Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
- Russian Index of Scientific Citation (eLibrary.ru)
- Google scholar
- WorldCat
Publications
- Quarterly
- Bilingual (accepts and publishes full-text manuscripts in English and Russian)
- Platinum Open Access distribution model
- No APC
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence.
Current Issue
Vol 8, No 2 (2024)
- Year: 2024
- Articles: 10
- URL: https://vietnamjournal.ru/2618-9453/issue/view/9228
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.54631/VS.2024.82-135
Full Issue
Scientific researches
National Heroes of Vietnam through the Lens of State Myth-making
Abstract
The elevation by the state of certain historical characters to the rank of national heroes is always myth-making, which pursues its own goals. To understand such goals in relation to Vietnam, it seems important to consider its national heroes, especially since their list is actually determined at the state level.
An analysis of the “official” national heroes of Vietnam allows us to draw a number of conclusions. The choice of characters is largely «Sino-centric», which generally reflects the role of the northern neighbor in the history of the Vietnamese state and its worldview in the modern period. Most of the heroes are military leaders and heads of state (mainly who went down in history because the resistance to the Chinese), and not cultural figures, science or art. At the same time, their official biographies are always close to the image of an ideal person, regardless of actual actions. Here one can see the Confucian basis of Vietnamese society, in which history is always positive. Noteworthy is the apparent lack of figures from the last two centuries (with the exception of Ho Chi Minh), which seems to reflect the following peculiarity of the political culture of Vietnam: power usually avoids personification. Also interesting is the modest number of characters associated with Buddhism and religion in general, which may be a consequence of the course taken in the last century to build socialism, which presupposes an atheistic view of the world.
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India-Vietnam Bilateral Trade and Investment Relations: An Empirical Analysis
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The relations between India and Vietnam have been strengthening in both social and economic aspects. The bilateral trade and investment relations between the two countries are on an upward trend. In this context, the present paper analyzes the trade intensity between India and Vietnam and provides an overview of the investment relations. The study also examines the impact of the host country's GDP and exchange rate on the home country's export level for both India and Vietnam using the Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network technique of Artificial Neural Network. The main findings of the study show that before 2017, India's exports are more intensive than imports with Vietnam and Vietnam's imports are more intensive than exports with India. However, since 2017, this trend is slightly reversed and Vietnam's exports are more intense than imports with India. Furthermore, it is found that the host country's GDP and exchange rate have a significant impact on India and Vietnam's bilateral exports.
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Synthetic Classification of Provinces and Cities in Vietnam as a Guide for Regional Policy
Abstract
Vietnam is a country with a relatively high level of regional inequality. The General Statistics Office of Vietnam groups the provinces based on their geographic location. This article presents the classification of the provinces and cities of Vietnam based not only on geography, but also on their socio-economic characteristics, economic structure, and the membership in free economic zones (FEZs). The analysis identifies four groups of provinces and cities: i) highly developed (FEZ members with high GRP per capita and a developed technological industry) ii) developed (FEZ members with high untapped economic growth potential and a highly diversified economic base), iii) moderately developed (with a vast primary sector and high potential for the development of the tourism sector) and iv) less developed (the poorest regions). The article highlights individual provinces, the level of socio-economic development of which (ceteris paribus) will allow them to transfer towards the group of more developed provinces in the near future. In order to reduce inequality in other provinces, we propose to use approaches, which have been successfully implemented in highly developed and developed regions, such as incentives for foreign investors or tax preferences for the development of significant industries in individual provinces.
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Vietnam Healthcare Expenditure
Abstract
Household health expenditure is important in shaping human capital for developing countries, including Vietnam. This study aims to examine the factors affecting household health expenditure in Vietnam. The study used a combination of descriptive and multivariate regression analysis based on the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) 2016. As a result of the regression analysis, demographic factors such as gender, ethnicity, age, education level, and region are the most important determinants of healthcare spending in Vietnam. This result is similar to other studies conducted in Vietnam and other countries. For developing countries including Vietnam, the determinants of personal health expenditure raise several issues that need to be addressed by health planners. Some policy implications are suggested, including (i) improving the health care system in rural areas, (ii) strengthening the existing social safety net for the elderly, and (iii) developing health insurance covering the entire population.
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French-Vietnamese Educational Culture in Cochinchina (1862–1945)
Abstract
During the colonization process, the French government issued many policies on all aspects from life to the economy in Vietnam to “domesticate” the Vietnamese people. In the field of education, France was particularly interested in establishing a colonial education system that was completely dependent on France. The process of imposing the educational system on the model of the French educational culture is also the process of absorbing and transforming the Vietnamese-French educational culture in Vietnam in general and in Cochinchina in particular. In this study, we analyze and evaluate the Franco-Vietnamese educational culture in Cochinchina during the French colonial period. From the research results, it is shown that through the process of establishing the French educational culture in Cochinchina (Vietnam), Vietnamese culture has received the French educational culture and created its educational characteristics in the period history of modern Vietnam. This education has many changes compared to the traditional Confucian education. This is the process of receiving and transforming the culture to fit the exogenous and endogenous, transforming the exogenous into the endogenous, becoming its own culture.
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Features of the Development of Vietnamese Choreographic Art
Abstract
For the first time, based on a multidimensional model of Vietnamese culture, the article examines the features of the development of Vietnamese dance art, the process of its professionalization, and the introduction of European classical dance to Vietnamese soil. A layer of authentic Vietnamese culture is taken as a framework, around which the configuration of cultural elements and the style of art are crystallized in different historical and cultural contexts. The classification of types and types of Vietnamese choreographic art is given. The emergence of the national ballet as a new type of performing art for Vietnam is analyzed from the point of view of the contact of authentic Vietnamese culture with Chinese-Confucian and Buddhist, European, Soviet, modern Western cultural traditions. The most significant works of small and large choreographic forms of 1950-2024 are given. The scientific significance of the conclusions lies in the fact that the methodological approach developed by the authors, the factual material introduced into scientific circulation and the formulated conclusions help to clarify the modern picture of the dynamics of Vietnamese culture and art. The article shows the role and importance of modern choreographic art in establishing interstate cooperation. The conclusion is made about the progressive development of Vietnamese choreographic art, and the need to preserve traditional Vietnamese culture is emphasized.
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The Mechanisms of Language Game in the Vietnamese Language
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the specifics and mechanisms of language play in the Vietnamese language. The language game is found in traditional Kazao folk couplets, in paired inscriptions, riddles, poetry, as well as in the texts and headlines of modern media, advertising, colloquial speech, and Internet communications. The following basic means and techniques of language play in the Vietnamese language are highlighted: the use of various types of homonymy; creating inversion puns (inversion of constituent components, rearrangement of tones, rearrangement of rhyme, rearrangement of initials, rearrangement of initials and tone, rearrangement of rhyme and tone, rearrangement of initials and rhyme); decomposition of a word into its component components-morphemes and separate use of them or their homonyms; decomposing a word into its component components and replacing one of the components; use of synonymy and antonymy; the use of polysemy; paronymy; phraseological game. During the research process, extensive illustrative material was used. The research topic is relevant due to the extremely wide distribution of this phenomenon in the Vietnamese language and its importance for constructing a cultural and linguistic picture of the world of Vietnamese speakers.
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Scientific life
Russian-Vietnamese Partnership in Progress: on the Occasion of 30th Anniversary of the Treaty on the Foundations of Friendly Relations
Abstract
The review of a series of scientific and practical events held in April-June 2024 and dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Treaty on the foundations of friendly relations between Russia and Vietnam assesses the evolution, current state, problems and prospects of these relations, the impact of international events on them, and the active foreign policy of Hanoi and Moscow. In particular, the author highlights main reports of experts on Vietnam at the plenary conference of the Moscow Academic Economic Forum on the topic “Intensification of economic ties between Russia and the countries of Asia and Africa”, the ninth Vietnam Day at MGIMO of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the round table “Russia-Vietnam” in IOS RAS, the international conference “Mekong: problems of the region and possible solutions” in ICCA RAS. Vietnam's participation in the multilateral formats of Russian foreign policy was also briefly reviewed, and it was recognized as extremely restrained. Vietnam's participation in the multilateral formats of Russian foreign policy was briefly reviewed too, and it was recognized as extremely restrained. According to experts, the results of cooperation between the two countries lag far behind their official format and actual potential.
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Dissertations Defence
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Official documents
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