1. Full name: Nguyen Thi Binh                                       2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: September 17th, 1982                           4. Place of birth: Nam Dinh          

5. Admission decision number: No. 2999/2013/QĐ-XHNV-SĐH, December 30th, 2013 of Rector of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Hanoi, Vietnam.

6. Changes in academic process:

- Applying tittle of thesis based on Decision no. 137/QĐ-SĐH, February 10th, 2014: The Historical Sources of Land Using of Hanoi City during the French Colonial Period (1888-1945).

- Changing tittle of thesis based on Decision no. 3058/QĐ-SĐH, December 22nd, 2014 to: The Historical Sources of Urban Land Management Policies of Hanoi City during 1888-1945.

- Changing tittle of thesis based on Decision no. 386/ QĐ-XHNV, February 28th, 2017 to: The French Historical Sources of Urban Land Management Policies of Hanoi City during 1888-1945

7. Official title of the thesis: The French Historical Sources of Urban Land Management Policies of Hanoi City during 1888-1945

8. Major: Historiography and Sources                                              9. Code: 62.22.03.16

10. Supervisor: Assoc.Professor Phan Phuong Thao - History Faculty, USSH

                       Assoc.Professor Nguyen Thua Hy  - History Faculty, USSH

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

a. The thesis could identified some specific characteristic of French historical source, especially the sources come from archivers which related to the urban land management policies of French colonial government in Hanoi city.  

 - The first characteristic of these sources is the diversity of type of texts.

- Secondly, all French historical sources about this period carries the decentralization of legal documents characteristic.

- Thirdly, sources in French about urban land management policies could be considered as a high reliability document for researching.

-  Fourthly, the French sources are abundance of information, especially about the information of policies in urban land control.

- Lastly, the information in French historical sources are multidimensional nature of the information.

b. Besides, the thesis represented the system of colonial authorities from central to local, as well as the offices which related to the management role and the policies about urban land in Hanoi during French time. All activities have been addressed include:   the land ownership change policy, the urban real estate market management policy in Hanoi, the land management policy by land registry paper, and the policy on urban planning expansion and impact of it on urban transformation in Hanoi.

12. Practical applicability:

- The thesis could be used as reference for researching and teaching for subject of Urban History of Vietnam during Modern Period in B.A Programe of Urban History . Besides, the thesis also contributes to policy makers experience lessons for establishing and managing urban land in either general urban area or Hanoi city today.

13. Futher research directions:

- Urban Management of Vietnam during modern period, Urban economic of Vietnam during modern period.

14. Thesis-related publications:

- Phan Phuong Thao & Nguyen Thi Binh (2013), “About Hanoi cadastral resources from the late XIXth century to the first half of the XXth century”, in: Phan Phuong Thao (ed.), The Old Quarter of Hanoi during the First Half of the XXth Century through Cadastral Resources, Hanoi: CTQG Publisher, pp. 95-116.

- Nguyen Thi Binh (2013), “The Hanoi Old Quarter under the Influence of French during 1888-1945 Period”, in: Phan Phuong Thao (ed.), The Old Quarter of Hanoi during the First Half of the XXth Century through Cadastral Resources, Hanoi: CTQG Publisher, pp. 149-234.

- Nguyen Thi Binh (2014), “A Look at the Planning and Using Public Land of French in the Old Quarter Area of Hanoi during 1888-1945 ”, Journal of History Studies (349), pp. 31-41.

- Nguyen Thi Binh (2015), “Research about the Concept and Boudaries of “"European Quarter / Western Quarter" in Hanoi during 1884-1945”, Journal of History Studies (474), pp. 21-29.

- Phan Phuong Thao & Nguyen Thi Binh (2017), “Hanoi Cadastral Documents during French Colonial Period: Collection and Documentary Value”, in: Phan Phuong Thao (ed.), Western Quarter in Hanoi during the First Half of the XXth Century through Cadastral Documents, Hanoi: Hanoi Publisher, pp. 13-32.

- Phan Phuong Thao & Nguyen Thi Binh (2017), “Identification of "Western Quarter" / "European Quarter" in Hanoi under the French: Concept and Boundaries”, in: Phan Phuong Thao (ed.), Western Quarter in Hanoi during the First Half of the XXth Century through Cadastral Documents, Hanoi: Hanoi Publisher, pp. 33-54.

- Nguyen Thi Binh (2017), “French public architecture in Western / Western Europe in Hanoi (1874-1945)”, in: Phan Phuong Thao (ed.), Western Quarter in Hanoi during the First Half of the XXth Century through Cadastral Documents, Hanoi: Hanoi Publisher, pp. 339-369.