The Ho Chi Minh City-based Tre (Youth) Publishing House has signed an exclusive copyright deal with well-known historian Nguyen Dinh Dau, writer of many books and documents on Vietnamese history and culture.
Books on the South’s history and culture by cultural researcher and historian Nguyen Dinh Dau will soon release in new versions by the Tre (Youth) Publishing House. (Photo courtesy of the Trẻ Publishing House)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City-based Tre (Youth) PublishingHouse has signed an exclusive copyright deal with well-known historian NguyenDinh Dau, writer of many books and documents on Vietnamese history and culture.
The deal grants the printer exclusive rights to publish and sell all of Dau’sworks.
The publisher will soon release four books written, compiled and edited by Dau.
These books feature the history of the South’s development in different periodsfrom the 19th century until the 20th. Southern people, particularly farmers,and their contributions to the fight against the French colonialists, arefeatured.
Tre Publishing House has released eight publications by Dau, including Tap GhiSu Dia Viet (Records on History and Geography of Vietnam) in 2020.
The 232-page book is on the history and geography of Vietnam.
It consists of historical events and characters as well as geographicaldocuments from the 20th century which Dau collected for several years.
Dau’s articles about Sai Gon, now Ho Chi Minh City, and on Vietnam’ssovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) are alsoincluded.
Dau’s books help readers, particularly young people, learn more about Southernculture and lifestyle through the region’s history, according to thepublisher’s director Phan Thi Thu Ha.
Born in 1920 in Hanoi, Dau graduated from the Bach Nghe (Polytechnic) School in1941 and Sorbonne University in Paris in 1953.
He returned to HCM City in 1955 and worked as a high school teacher of historyand geography.
Since 1960, he has focused on research on the history and geography of Vietnam,and published several articles in local newspapers and magazines.
Dau released more than 40 books, including Viet Nam Quoc Hiuu và Cuong Vuc – HoangSa, Truong Sa (Vietnam's Official Names and Territories – Hoang Sa, Truong Sa)in 2013.
He won the Tran Van Giau Prize in 2005 and Phan Chau Trinh prize in 2008, thecountry’s prestigious awards for research works in different fields such ashistory, geography and culture.
He owns a collection of many maps of Vietnam, especially more than 3,000ancient maps of the country’s sovereignty rights over Truong Sa and Hoang Sa./.
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Books on the South’s history and culture by cultural researcher and historian Nguyen Dinh Dau will soon release in new versions by the Tre (Youth) Publishing House. (Photo courtesy of the Trẻ Publishing House) 
