INFORMATION ON MASTER’S THESIS

1. Full name : Nguyen Thi Tuyet 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: 18/11/1983 4. Place of birth: Tu Dan – Khoai Chau – Hung Yen 5.Admission decision number: 2551/2007/QD-XHNV-KHXH&SDH, dated: 02-11-2007 according to the Headmaster of Hanoi Social Science & Humanity University. 6. Changes in academic process: No 7. Official thesis title: Bắc sứ thông lục and Vietnamese-Chinese academic exchanges in the 17th century 8. Major: Sino-Nom 9. Code: 60 22 40 10. Supervisors: Ass.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Kim Son –(National University Hanoi) 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: The diplomatic trip to China in 1760-1762 by Vietnamese envoys led by Trần Huy Mật, Lê Quý Đôn and Trịnh Xuân Thụ was one of the most distinguishing diplomatic trips in the eighteenth century, and the trip was also one that left a lot of research materials. In addition to the successful completion of the diplomatic missions assigned by the Court, this trip was made even more remarkable by lively academic exchanges and conversations among Chinese scholars, Goryean (Korean) envoys, Ryukyuan (Japanese) students and Vietnamese envoys - this partly reflected the atmosphere of academic exchanges between Vietnam and China, as well as other East Asian countries, in the 18th century. This thesis introduces the life and career of the great author Lê Quý Đôn; carries a survey on the documents, explores the academic and literary values of the works; pays special attention to the academic exchange activities among our country’s envoys and Chinese officials of all ranks as recorded in Lê Quý Đôn’s Bắc sứ thông lục. 12. Practical applicability if any: In this modern era that encourages academic exchange activities, making deep researches on academic exchange activities in the previous periods provides us with an insight into the academic atmosphere in the past and a basis upon which we can build modern academic relationships with other countries (e.g. organizing seminars and conferences, promoting cultural exchange activities and other events etc) in order to gain a better understanding of other cultures and contribute to the advance the human race’s civilization. 13. Thesis-related publications: 1) Nguyễn Thị Tuyết, A study of Hunan carried in Vietnam (A brief review of Hunan-related poems in Việt Nam Hán văn yên hành), a translation of Trương Kinh Hoa’s article, Bulletin of Hán Nôm Studies, Nov 2011) 2) Nguyễn Thị Tuyết, An insight into academic exchange activities between Vietnam and East Asian countries in the 18th century (Via the diplomatic trip to China by Vietnamese envoys in 1760-1762), The fourth international conference on Vietnamese studies, Nov 2012.