1. Full name: Nguyen Huong Ngoc                                             2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: 5/2/1991                                                           4. Place of birth: Thai Nguyen

5. Admission decision number: 3216/2014/QĐ-XHNV-SĐH by USSH, VNU, dated: 31/12/2014 by Rector of USSH, VNU

6. Changes in academic process: Thesis name changed from Narrator in feminine contemporary Vietnamese short stories (case study Le Minh Khue, Y Ban and Da Ngan) to Tan Da in the first half of Vietnamese 20th Century literature, admission decision number 418/QĐ-SĐH by USSH, VNU, dated 26/05/2015.

7. Official thesis title: Tan Da in the first half of Vietnamese 20th Century literature

8. Major: Literary Theories                                                          9. Code: 60.22.01.20

10. Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Ph.D. Pham Quang Long

11.Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

- Tan Da clearly had contradictions. However, when analyzing his career and life, we realize that all of these things are in unity and come to the unification to create Tan Da’s artistic creative personality. These contradictions also show the multifaceted aspects of personality, concept, and personality. These things have often been underestimated before. In the thesis, we consider it as a sign of the formation of a creative personality.

- Tan Da is a very special person, especially from his personality, point of view of life, ideology to his family and his other social relationships. In each different value system, he vividly and clearly displayed his own dignity and thinking. In fact, Tan Da is a person who lived very honestly with his own people, so in any value system, he also revealed his personality very clearly. This is familiar to and also different from the Confucianism. Confucianists are also spiritually imprinted on their career as well as in other relationships, but they are stoic. The expression of Tan Da in different value systems has a ego of a Confucianist and the ego of modern person. In other words, his expression was also prove his position was on the boundary line of the times, where traditional values ​​and innovations intertwine, reject each other but still come to unity. In that final unity, the modern artist and his creative artistic personality are clearly shown.

- Basically, his works contain the essence and material of poetry, travel prose, medieval Confucianism theory and traditional Vietnamese literature. Regarding folk poetry and performing, he almost had no innovation. In prose, he tried to innovate but failed because he only made simple changes in appearance. With the desire to change in artistic creation, Tan Da tried to learn to make changes in his literature, but the important thing is that he did not understand the nature of that change that is the change was not only in outward form but is also in the inner values. He has not yet reached the same personality exploitation as new romantic poets, especially in expressing his own strong, passionate personal emotions. This has limited the ability of Tan Da's works to change, keeping them on the boundary between tradition and modernity.

- With unique features and expressions, Tan Da became an important literary writer in the early twentieth century. As Hoai Thanh said, it was him, not anyone else, who “played the opening chords for an upcoming modern concert...” (Hoai Thanh, 1999: 255). His contributions to modern Vietnamese literature are undeniable. He is a writer who has had a diverse experience in terms of genres and writing in the entire Vietnamese literature. He wrote in many different genres and tried to bring materials of modern literature into his works but his literary innovations were not as successful as what he expected. That failure in his process of literary innovation is due to the limitations in his own perception, thinking, point of view and worldview.

12. Practical applicability, if any:

Being the document reference for the academic activities related to Vietnamese literature in high school, college and university.

13. Further research directions, if any:

- Research the other Vietnamese authors or literary works in the first half of 20th Century.

- Research and compare Tan Da to the authors in the other countries who have the same feature with Tan Da.

- Research and compare Vietnamese 20th century literature to the same literature period in the other countries.

14. Thesis-related publications:

 Nguyen Huong Ngo (2019), “The Novel Giac mong con (A little dream) by Tan Da from the Genre perspective”, The Journal of Arts Education (4), pp.48-57.

Nguyen Huong Ngoc (2019), “Travel topic in novel Giac mong con written by Tan Da, The Jounal of Arst Education, Review of social sciences Ho Chi Minh city, (29), pp.88-92.

Nguyen Huong Ngoc (2020), “Tan Da and his experience in creating new syllable in writing”, The Journal of Arts Education (33), pp.66-69.

Nguyen Huong Ngoc (2021), “Themes, main topic in Tan Da’s Poetries”, The Journal of Arts Education (37), pp. 97-102.

Nguyen Huong Ngoc (2021), “Images of country and nation in Tan Da literature (through Complete works of Tan Da by Nguyen Khac Xuong), Review of social sciences Ho Chi Minh city (5), pp.42-50.