“My Lai,” which boasts a richly evocative score by Stanford composer Jonathan Berger and a slim, elusive libretto by Harriet Scott Chessman, portrays Thompson in his final days, dying of cancer and desperately trying to make some sense of the events of 40 years earlier. Tenor Rinde Eckert, in one of his trademark displays of unbridled vocal power, made Thompson a vivid and poignant character; the music, written for the Kronos Quartet and the Vietnamese instrumental virtuoso Van-Anh Vo, underscored the drama with unerring clarity.
The result, presented by Stanford Live, was a 60-minute monodrama that was not always easy to sit through, but that treated its painful subject matter with eloquence and sensitivity.
“My Lai” is scheduled for a staged outing in January at the Harris Theater in Chicago

Cuộc triển lãm mang tên ‘Lê Quang Đỉnh: Ký ức gửi Ngày mai’ diễn ra từ 25/07 tới 12/10/2015 tại Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, nơi có khoảng 1.2 triệu người tới thăm hàng năm. Đây là lần đầu tiên bảo tàng này tổ chức triển lãm tác phẩm của riêng một nghệ sỹ từ Đông Nam Á.

In the new play “Viet Gone,” which recently premiered at the South Coast Repertory in Orange County, playwright Qui Nguyen tells a Vietnamese American refugee story in the style of a Judd Apatow sex comedy mixed with hip-hop biopic. The result is superficially shocking and breaks stereotypes of sexless and conservative Asian Americans. The play also captures the fear, desperation, guilt and hope felt by many refugees, which is why some older Vietnamese audience members have praised it as cathartic. On the other hand, the lead characters’ anti-commie tirades and justifications for American intervention are never challenged or placed in perspective. The play’s mocking takedown of white peaceniks redeems the guilt of politically ambiguous upper-class whites while catering to the identity politics of the “me”-generation’s ethnic studies slacktivists.

Gian hàng Việt Nam tại Hội chợ sách Frankfurt 2015 (Đức) trưng bày một số cuốn sách nhưng đa số đều bằng tiếng Việt, khá "lép vế" so với các nước khác.

HONG KONG —Magna Carta — the Great Charter — is on tour this year, celebrating eight centuries since it was issued in 1215 by King John of England. It is regarded as one of the world’s most important documents because of language guaranteeing individual rights and holding the ruler subject to the law.

The biannual Cornell Voices on Vietnam Speakers’ Series is delighted to announce our second event, featuring journalist, essayist and short-story writer Nhã Ca (Trần Thu Vân). A leading literary figure in South Vietnam’s Second Republic (1967-1975), Nhã Ca played a prominent role in Saigon’s burgeoning print media scene.
“Giải khăn sô cho Huế” has recently been translated as “Mourning Headband for Huế” by Olga Dror [Indiana University Press, 2014], who will also be opening the proceedings with a short presentation. Finally, we will be hosting a dinner and film screening of Land of Sorrows (Đất Khổ), a 1973 film based on Mourning Headband for Huế
The event is co-sponsored by the Cornell Southeast Asia Program, Society for the Humanities, Reppy Institute and the Departments of History, Government, and Asian Studies.
Date: October 27, 2015
Public Lecture: 12:00PM - 2:00PM, 374 Rockefeller Hall
Dinner and Film Screening: 6:30PM - 9:30PM, Kahin Center
For more information contact:vovcornell@gmail.com

MOSCOW — Yuri N. Afanasyev, a Russian historian and former Communist loyalist who became a leading democratic politician in the late Soviet era and founded a liberal arts university that, together with the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, introduced Russia’s first academic Jewish studies program, died Sept. 14 at his home here. He was 81.

MANILA — Joker Arroyo, a politician and lawyer who counseled, bedeviled and helped topple Philippine presidents for more than three decades, died this week in the United States. He was 88.

Grace Lee Boggs, one of the nation’s oldest human rights activists, who waged a war of inspiration for civil rights, labor, feminism, the environment and other causes for seven decades with an unflagging faith that revolutionary justice was just around the corner, died on Monday at her home in Detroit. She was 100.

Don Edwards, a former president of the California Young Republicans who became one of the most liberal Democrats in Congress, drafting every civil rights bill in the House for two decades, died on Thursday in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. He was 100.