1. Full name: Vu Thi Huong                                            2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: 15/05/1980                                            4. Place of birth: Ha Nam

5. Admission decision number: 3202/QĐ-SĐH                 Dated: November 8^th, 2010

6. Changes in academic process:          

7. Official thesis title: A Comparative Research on “Records of Searching for Spirits” (China) and Some Vietnamese Records of Supernatural Fiction from the Angle of Literary Genre and Sino Language.

8. Major: Sino - Nom Studies                                          9. Code:           62.22.01.04 

10. Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. PhD Nguyen Huu Son

                        Assoc. Prof. PhD Nguyen Thi Oanh

11. Summary of a new findings of the thesis:

- Generalizing both main theoretical issues and the historical background of Zhiguai genre in China and Vietnam.

- Pointing out characteristics of the genre Zhiguai and its circumstance in Vietnamese and Chinese literature history.

- Demonstrating that Selection of Wondrous Tales in Linh Nam and Collection of Stories on the Shady and Spiritual World of the Viet Realm are influenced by Records of Searching for Spirits through cultural contacts and exchanges.

- Pointing out some significant grammatical phenomena of the genre Zhiguai that is, they were of written vernacular Chinese in the early period, simultaneously, specifying existential sentence and sentential sentence as the two types of sentence characterized of the genre Zhiguai.

12. Practical applicability, if any:

Compiling references for Literature, Sino - Nom students and for those who are interested in this study subject.

13. Further research directions, if any:

Studying the impact of Chinese Zhiguai on Vietnamese Strange Tales.

14. Thesis- related publications:  (List in chronological order )

[1] Vu Thi Huong (2011), “Records of Searching for Spirits and the issues of  Supernatural Fiction genre”, Journal of Literature Studies (2), pp. 52-64.

[2] Vu Thi Huong (2013), “A comparison between Records of Searching for Spirits and Spiritual World of the Viet Realm and Selection of Wondrous Tales in Linh Nam in terms of Literary Genre and Sino Language, Conference Proceedings: 40 years of Teaching and Studying Sino-Nom, VNU Publisher, Hanoi, pp.333-344.

[3] Vu Thi Huong (2015), The usage of "Zài" (在) and "Yǒu” (有) in Records of Searching for Spirits, Spiritual World of the Viet Realm, and Selection of Wondrous Tales in Linh Nam, Journal of Language (8-9), pp. 123-133.