INFORMATION ON MASTER’S THESIS

1. Full name: Nguyen Thi Thanh 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: 24/10/1973 4. Place of birth: Que Vo – Bac Ninh 5. Admission decision number: 2551/2007/QĐ-XHNV-KH&SĐH signed by the Headmaster of USSH, Hanoi National University. Dated: November 2, 2007 6. Changes in academic process: No 7. Official thesis title: “About some aspects of the life of the Thang Long - Ha Noi (through surveys stone)” 8. Major: Vietnam History 9. Code: 60 22 54 10. Supervisors: Deputy Professor. Doctor Vũ Văn Quân. 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: After the survey, the entire research system stone steles of Thang Long - Hanoi by Tho Xuong and Vinh Thuan districts (equivalent with Hoan Kiem District, Hai Ba Trung District, Ba Dinh District, Tay Ho District, Cau Giay District now), we make the following conclusions: - Thang Long - Hanoi is the center of politics, economy and culture of the country, where dense cultural heritage system with various types of monuments, rich and the epitaph massive volumedating from the Le Trung Hung to Nguyen. - These stone steles of Thang Long - Ha Noi dating relatively late compared to other provinces. Stone steles reflects cultural life, beliefs and practices of Thang Long accounted for bulk and predominant than other areas. Keep sending anniversary, elected to the post to divine worship, worship team training, worship the characters recorded history through detailed stone quite express devotion, gratitude of the people fordivine. - Stone steles of anniversary send bulk up in the epitaph system examined, especially during the Nguyen Dynasty is the peak period of development of steles send anniversary with remarkable number compared with other periods. Keep sending anniversary has become indispensable needs ingrained into thinking, subconscious strata people and become a common practice in Hanoi as well as in the country. - Education, the doctoral examination of Thang Long - Hanoi is recorded through the stone steles in the Temple of Literature and Thang Long documents at the locality. Also reflects the overall picture of education in the country, the stone steles at Van Mieu also helps us to better evaluate the quality of the exam in Thang Long - Hanoi, the number of the park, the park compared tothe country, who is considered the Thang Long. etc. - Economic and trade in Thang Long - Hanoi is recorded through stone steles craft in the church ruins in the Old Quarter of Hanoi. Type stone steles records of the craft is not much, this is really important historic resources, the few remaining in the Old Quarter of Hanoi is now gradually blurred the context of urbanization increasingly powerful. - The contribution of the urban elite populations of Thang Long - Hanoi is recognized through the stone steles in activities such as building, restored monuments, roads, bridges ... well worthy of our recognition, evaluationeconomic perspective of Thang Long - over time. - Through the contents of records of money, in each stone field, we know about the economic disparity between social classes, on the situation of land ownership from the field in the course of history. - The presence of the Chinese in the inscription in Hoi Quan relating helped us to see how their sales organizations has surpassed in size and level compared to the native population and economic departmentthis has contributed to the Thang Long - Hanoi more crowded in the nineteenth century.. 12. Practical applicability: Used as material for the study and teaching of the history and culture of Hanoi. From the classification according to the criteria, the content gives us a view of politics, economy, culture and laws of Thang Long - Ha Noi through the records of the types of documents of stone steles. 13. Further research directions, if any: Not yet. 14. Thesis-related publications: - The gods worshiped in Tan Khai Common house - in the book historical and cultural monuments in the Old Quarter and around Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi Publishing House, 2002. - Ha Vi Common house and paint job and the street - in the book historical and cultural monuments in the Old Quarter and around Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi Publishing House, 2002. - Dong Lac Common house - in the book historical and cultural monuments in the Old Quarter and around Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi Publishing House, 2002. - Duc Vien Pagoda - in the book Cultural Historical Hai Ba Trung District, Culture and Information Publishing House, 2003. - Monuments Lam Son uprising in Hanoi (written) - Proceedings of scientific conference celebrating 580 years of liberation Dongguan and established the Le dynasty, Publishing House, Hanoi, 2008. - Relics Boc Pagoda- Dong Da mound in the book Looking in the cultural heritage of Vietnam - Thang Long - Hanoi, Culture and Information Publishing House, Hanoi, 2002.