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Welcome to the Việt Nam Cultural Profile
After seeing off successive generations of foreign invaders - Chinese, French, Japanese, American - Việt Nam became a united communist state in 1975. Since the late 1980s it has moved forward on the path of free-market reform under the banner of đổi mới ('renovation'), opening its doors to the rest of the world and offering a wealth of new opportunities for international cultural exchange.
The Việt Nam Cultural Profile represents the first major attempt to map the cultural infrastructure of this fascinating yet hitherto poorly-documented country. It offers a detailed sector-by-sector guide to Archives, Competitions and Awards, Ethnic Culture, Festivals, Film, Funding, Government Cultural Policy and Infrastructure, Heritage, International Exchange, Libraries, Literature, Mass Culture, Media (Broadcasting, Press, Publishing, Internet), Performing Arts, Research, Tourism, Training, Visual Arts and Youth Arts. Each sectoral overview concludes with a detailed directory of key contact organisations, making it possible for the reader not only to learn about what is happening in a particular cultural sector, but also to make direct contact with the key people working in it.
A collaborative project between Visiting Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Information of Việt Nam, the Việt Nam Cultural Profile is one of three new online cultural guides to the countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) - see also the Cambodia Cultural Profile and the Laos Cultural Profile. All three have been created with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Targeted at cultural professionals, yet packed full of information and images which will be of interest to the cultural tourist, the Việt Nam Cultural Profile forms part of a new and highly authoritative source of web intelligence on culture in South East Asia.
The Việt Nam Cultural Profile is updated regularly; please contact us to add or amend your details by E-mailing Ms Phùng Thị Thanh Thủy in Hà Nội at [email protected].
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