1. Full name: Ta Thi Thanh Huyen                                               2. Sex: female

3. Date of birth: 24/07/1985                                                        4. Place of birth: Ninh Bình

5. Admission decision number: 2999/2013/QĐ-XHNV-SĐH                  Dated: 30/12/2013

6. Changes in academic process: to ask for an extension three times

- The first: from 01/01/2017-31/12/2017

- The second: from 01/01/2018-30/06/2018

- The third: from 01/07/2018-31/12/2018

7. Official thesis title: Nguyen Dinh Chieu in the cultural space of the South of Vietnam

8. Major: Vietnamese Literature                                      9. Code: 62 22 01 21

10. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Tran Nho Thin

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

- Firstly, to point out and analyse layers and elements of Southern culture that contribute to the shaping of Nguyen Dinh Chieu’s personality and impact on his literary moral teachings.

- Secondly, to examine Nguyen Dinh Chieu’s influences on Southern literature in transitional period (from late nineteenth century to early twentieth century) with two tendencies: reception and counter-reception, as well as behaviors of many generations of common people in this region until present time.

12. Practical applicability, if any: the findings of the thesis can be applied to teaching in school to increase the student’s interest.

13. Further research directions, if any: the study of Nguyen Dinh Chieu’s influence on the cultural space of southern area of Vietnam can be carried on with modern Vietnamese literature and culture.

14. Thesis-related publications:

Ta Thi Thanh Huyen (2016), “The influence of The Tale of Kieu on Luc Van Tien”, Journal of Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts, 52, pp. 31-35.  

Ta Thi Thanh Huyen (2018), “An Introduction to the Imagology and the Use of Western Imagery in the Confucianist Emissary’s Poetry of the Nineteenth Century”, VNU Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, vol. 4(3), pp. 316-332.

Ta Thi Thanh Huyen (2019), “A Sign of Change of twentieth-century Southern Vietnamese Literature: The Case of Creative Adaptation of the Values and Materials Borrowed from the Tale of Kieu and the Tale of Luc Van Tien in Ha Huong phong nguyet by Le Hoang Muu”, VNU Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities vol. 5 (1), pp. 94-106.