1. Full name: Nguyễn Văn Chuyên                                              2. Sex: Male

3. Date of birth: 18 December 1985                                            4. Place of birth:  Tuyên Quang

5. Admission decision number: 3216/2014-QĐ-XHNV-SĐH, dated 31 December 2014, by Rector of the University of Social sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in academic process:No.

7. Official thesis title: The CoastalCommercial Portsin Central-North Vietnam in the Regional and International Relations in 11th and 19thCenturies.

8. Major: World History                                                              9. Code: 62.22.03.11

10. Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Dr.Nguyễn Mạnh Dũng; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyễn Thừa Hỷ.

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

- The dissertation is a comprehensive and intensivework on the commercial relationship of Coastalcommercial portsin Central-North Vietnamfrom the 11th to 19th centuries. Given various and dimensional source of materials, the dissertation seeks tohighlight the external relations of all major portsin terms of traders, ships and commodity exchanges.

- Basing on commercial activities incoastalcommercial ports in Central - North Vietnam, thedissertationrevisits the position and role of these commercial port clusters in the regional and international trading system (the role of exogenous factors impacting on the development, international character ofthese ports and so on) .

- The dissertation is a scientific work that reflects the regional and international relations in Central-Northern Coastal Commercial Portsmore than eight centuries, from the beginning of the eleventh century to the middle of the nineteenth century.The dissertation provides a general picture on Vietnam's foreign trade inthe middle ages and pre-modern periods.

12. Practical applicability, if any:

- The dissertationmakes readers awarethe position and role of theCoastalCommercial Portsin Central-North Vietnam. Characteristics and roles of these ports are also raised.

- The dissertation can be used as a reference material for MA, PhD students, researchers about trade history of Southeast Asia sea, history of foreign trade of Vietnam, history of provinces in Central-North Vietnam.

13. Further research directions, if any:

- Regional and international economic exchanges in the middle and early modern periods of time.

- The trade ports in Central- South Vietnam in history.

- Vietnam’s commercial ports in history.

14. Thesis related publications:

(1). Nguyen Van Chuyen (2013), “The Western Imprints in Dang Ngoai (Northern Vietnam) in the 17th century”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (157), pp.29-36.

(2).Nguyen Van Chuyen (2017), “Basic issues of research on ancient trading ports along the Northern coast of Central Vietnam”, Journal of Archaeology (1), pp.66-72.

(3).Nguyen Van Chuyen (2017), “Some features about interactive trade activitives in the lower section of Lam river in the tenth and nineteenth centuries”,Journal of Archaeology(3), pp.68-75.

(4).Nguyen Van Chuyen (2017), “Factorsto create the ancient commercal system in the Central Vietnam in comparison with the ancient commercal system in the North Vietnam”, in International Conference Central Viet Nam’s trading port system in the Maritime silk road roles and connections, pp.147-154.

(5). Nguyen Van Chuyen (2017), “Some features of the trade activities in Central North Vietnam in the 10th and 19th centuries: The case of trade in lower Lam river”, Journal of Historical Studies (498), pp.24-33.