The generation of Vietnamese scholars who received their formal education before 1975 were affected by the social upheaval of wartime, particularly for those scholars educated during the 1960s–1970s. The premodern Vietnamese political elite generally read this scholarship with a practical interest in learning from the day-to-day statecraft of the past.Įven with this general link to traditional scholarship, modern Vietnamese Sinologists have faced unique challenges in their own times. Language is the key to understanding elements of the shared Sino-Vietnamese tradition, as well as an important tool for distinguishing the strong differences between Vietnamese and Chinese societies. Modern Vietnamese Sinology shares a general similarity with Vietnamese and Chinese traditional scholarship, in which “learning from antiquity” was paramount and the Chinese writing system was the tool for acquiring this learning. Many Vietnamese Sinologists in the modern era have sought in their research to explore a cultural “common ground” in the Sino-Vietnamese relationship while also highlighting political differences between the Chinese and Vietnamese states.
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