Vietnamese Society Research Articles

Applying Ho Chi Minh’s Thinking Style in Training Self-Study Ability of Students in Vietnam Today

Family is a cell of society, the first social institution contributing a fairly decisive part to build personality of each person. The family’s stability is the premise for the development of a civilized and wealthy society. Family organization exists and changes with the existence and change of the social life. Over the last years, Vietnamese society have seen vigorous changes in many aspects thereby Vietnamese family is in transition from traditional family to modern one. This article focuses on clarifying the concept of family, traditional Vietnamese family, features of traditional Vietnamese family, especially pointing out the changes from traditional Vietnamese family to Vietnamese family today. Ho Chi Minh was not only an outstanding cultural icon, a hero of national liberation, a great revolutionist of Vietnam, but also a shining example of self-studying and self-training. He has a unique scientific method and thinking style, that is independence, autonomy, creativity, towards new things, always stemming from objective practices, etc. Up to now these styles have remains intact and can be applied to self-studying of students at universities in Vietnam in the current period. The paper clarifies issues on Ho Chi Minh's thinking style, characteristics of his thinking style, and applies Ho Chi Minh's thinking style to train self-study ability for university students in Vietnam today. Keywords : Style, Ho Chi Minh’s thinking style, student, self-study ability DOI : 10.7176/RHSS/9-24-04 Publication date: December 31 st 2019

CURRENT SITUATION OF EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF PREVENTION SKILLS AND COMBAT OF SOCIAL DISEASES FOR STUDENTS AT ETHNIC MINORITITY BOARDING LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN QUANG NINH PROVINCE IN THE CURRENT PERIOD

In the current period, we are living in the early years of the 21 st century - the century of integration, Vietnamese society is affected both positively and negatively by the market mechanism. Advanced social life entailed development evils such as addiction, violence, gambling, cheating... These evils are like a dangerous epidemic spread throughout the school. The explosion of information with so much unhealthy information has made the younger generation have many manifestations of cognitive distortions and live away from traditional moral values and many other dangers. There are many causes, but according to education experts, the underlying reason is that they lack living skills with the difficulties of life such as divorced parents, broken families, deteriorating learning ... They were drawn to a pragmatic and demanding lifestyle, not brave enough to say “no to evil”. Through the surveys of serious and scientific surveys, the author of the article has detailed the status of educational management of social evils prevention skills for students at ethnic minority boarding lower secondary schools in Quang Ninh province from there have theoretical and practical basis to propose measures to manage education on social evils prevention skills in the current period.

Studies on the Curriculum and Operation of the Vietnamese Language and Regional Studies on Vietnam as a Convergence Major

현 정부는 아세안 회원국들과의 유대 관계 강화를 핵심으로 하는 ‘신남방정책’을 강력하게 추진하고 있으며, 특히 베트남은 한국 인적, 경제적, 정치적 교류 측면에서 아세안 회원국들 중에서도 가장 중요한 위치를 차지한다. 이에 따라 베트남어에 대한 수요도 급증하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 베트남을 중심으로 그 언어와 지역에 대한 이해를 향상시키고 국내 학생들의 취업률을 제고할 수 있는 ‘융복합 전공으로서 베트남어 및 지역연구’라는 융복합 프로그램을 제안하고 있다. 본 프로그램은 그 명칭에 제시하는 바와 같이 베트남어와 베트남 지역연구로 구성된다. 첫째, 베트남어 영역으로, 듣기, 말하기, 읽기, 쓰기와 같은 4대 외국어학습영역을 중심으로 기초베트남어, 중급베트남어, 비즈니스 베트남어 등의 강의를 단계별로 제공하고, 본 프로그램의 실무적인 특성상 통번역학습방법을 추가하여 학생들의 실제적인 베트남어 구사능력을 배가하고자 하였다. 또한, 베트남 지역연구 영역으로는 베트남과 관련된 정치, 경제, 사회, 문화, 역사, 법률 등으로 구성되는 지역연구분야를 제시하였다. 학생들에게 시간적, 공간적 제약을 극복하면서 이러한 프로그램을 원활하게 제공 및 운영하기 위하여 본 프로그램에는 온라인 방식의 베트남어 및 지역연구와 관련된 교과목의 제공, 외부학점의 인정 및 연계, 정부기관에 의한 법률과 규정상의 지원으로 구성되는 통합적인 네트워크가 구성되어야 한다. 그래서 본 베트남어 및 지역연구 프로그램은 교육부, 국립국제교육원, 국내 베트남어과 개설대학 및 한국방송통신대학 등 유관기관들을 컨소시엄으로 결합하여 베트남어 학습을 원하는 학생들이 가상의 공간에서 베트남어에 관한 전반적인 학습을 수행할 수 있도록 하는 플랫폼을 구축하는 것이 핵심이다. 본 연구에서 제시하는 프로그램은 국내 대학생들이 베트남 진출이라는 당면 과제를 해결하는데 도움을 주기 위한 융복합적 방법론으로 기능할 것이며, 베트남어뿐만 아니라 특수외국어진흥법이 대상으로 하는 모든 외국어에도 적용할 수 있는 범용성을 가진다 할 수 있다.The present Korean government is aggressively promoting the New Look South Policy. The core of the policy comprises strengthening close ties with the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN). In particular, Vietnam has taken a leading role among the other member countries, as it facilitates a large number of human and economic exchanges with Korea. Accordingly, demands for the Vietnamese language and regional studies on Vietnam are rapidly increasing. In this study, a convergence major, titled the Vietnamese language and regional studies of Vietnam is suggested based on the notion that when offered as a convergence major, the program will advance the understanding of the Vietnamese language and Vietnam area and enhance the employment rate of students in Korea. As suggested by its name, this program consists of two parts. One pertains to the Vietnamese language, and the other highlights regional studies on Vietnam. For the portion devoted to the Vietnamese language study, beginner, intermediate and advanced Vietnamese language courses are provided. Four major parts of language learning are focused upon: listening, speaking, reading and writing. From a practical perspective, this program adds the methodology of interpretation and translation studies to language learning to reinforce students practical language skills. Alternatively, the other part of the major, which treats regional studies on Vietnam, explores subjects such as Vietnamese politics, economy, society, culture, history, and law, which are included as topics relevant to regional studies. The integrated network comprising the online curriculum (related to Vietnamese language learning and regional studies on Vietnam, recognition and linkage of credits received from other universities and assistance provided by the rules and regulations of governmental entities) should be organized to support and operate this program smoothly. Therefore, a consortium that includes the Ministry of Education, the National Institute for International Education, the Vietnamese language departments in Korean universities and the Korea National Open University should be formed, thereby establishing a platform that enables students to undertake general Vietnamese studies online. The program suggested in this study will serve as a convergence-based methodology to support Korean students in resolving the current challenges of advancing into Vietnam. The program structure can also be applied to other languages addressed in the Act on the Promotion of Education of Critical Foreign Languages.

A Southern policing perspective and appreciative inquiry: an ethnography of policing in Vietnam

ABSTRACTPolicing knowledge has been dominated by scholarship from the Global North, and largely Western, Anglo-American contexts. Whilst some aspects of Vietnamese society have been exposed to academic and international scrutiny in recent decades, policing norms and structures remain opaque. Exploring why this is the case requires interrogation of the intersections of policing, place and the production of policing knowledge. A Southern perspective on policing has dual aims: firstly, to highlight the dynamics which have hidden, limited or excluded some scholarship on policing, and secondly, to provide a framework to understand how police culture and socialisation occur in different structural environments. This article considers how insights from Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as a mode of inquiry can facilitate undertaking ethnographic research on policing in sensitive and complex political environments, particularly in the global South. It includes my personal reflections on navigating approval of the research, ethics and access to the field. The results of the overarching study found there are more variations in policing practices and cultures than some current assumptions allow because there are a wider range of structural conditions than reported in dominant literature. The research also contributes to scholarship that highlights how police ‘culture’ is not universally a pejorative term and argues that specifically invoking ‘culture’ can form part of an ethnographer’s toolkit. Overall, an ‘appreciative’ approach has potential to contribute to the democratisation of knowledge for a more comprehensive and inclusive account of policing and police culture.

Study of the Laws under the Feudal Dynasties of Vietnam

After the establishment of the Dynasty, along with the establishment of national sovereignty, development of socio-cultural economy of the country, the Lý kings, firstly Lý Thái Tổ who focused on revival and development of ancient Vietnamese culture to a new level, with new nuances. As the first Dynasty of the period of independence and autonomy, the LýDynasty acted as the first Dynasty to open, establish and create the basic money for the development of the following dynasties at all and aspects of culture such as religious activities, beliefs, literature - arts, folk festivals ... In particular, it was noticeable as the first marks in the reception of Confucian ideology of the Lý Dynasty. Starting from there, the monarchy and feudal states in Vietnam were aware of the role of law and cared about and invested in the enactment of the law. The Vietnamese legal system in this period consisted of general laws and other legal documents such as Chiếu, Chỉ, Lệ, Lệnh, Dụ, Sắc ... In which, the laws- Hình Thư (Lý Dynasty), Quốc Triều Hình Luật (called Hình Luật - Trần Dynasty), Quốc Triều Hình Luật(called the Hồng Đức law– Hậu Lê Dynasty), and the Hoàng Việt Luật Lệ(called the Gia Long law - Nguyễn Dynasty) were ancient codes the most typical was built and issued in Vietnamese history (from the 11th century to the 19th century).The main and throughout ideology in the Laws is expressed in two main contents- first, the concept of the people and the role of the people; secondly, virtue of the king, virtue of the people, king- functionary, king-people and king-functionary relationship. These ideologies, to a certain extent, have influenced the Chinese Confucianist conception of water governance and determined the social relationships that everyone must follow. However, those laws have been developed and regulated by the conditions of Vietnamese society, by the requirements and practical tasks set for the feudal class, for the Vietnamese people... Because, that thought went beyond the classic books of the Confucian sages; contribute to meeting the requirements and tasks of defending and building the country, in line with the development trend of Vietnamese society in the feudal period. It has undeniable positive values.

Gender Ideology on Marriage in Contemporary Vietnam

This paper examines how conservative gender ideology affects Vietnamese men’s and women’s belief in marriage with a focus on the importance of marriage to their personhoodand aspirations for ideal marital partners. Since marriage is a both legal and social recognition for the foundation and maintenance of families in a society, studying gender ideology on marriage helps to identify differences in men’s and women’s perspectives over marriage and how those views can reflect gender equality in the domestic sphere. The data on which this paper is based are part of a larger research project, namely “Understanding Gender and Marriage Ideology in Contemporary Vietnam” which was conducted in 2015. The results of the study indicate that marriage is still highly important to both Vietnamese men and women. Marriage is not only a social recognition regarding people’s individual achievements and gender identities but also a type of economic investment (in children) for their old age. In relation to marriage aspirations, Vietnamese people still base on genderrole ideology, which highlights men’s and women’s distinctive roles in familial life, to select their marital partners. The persistence of Confucianism in Vietnamese society is the main source for Vietnamese people to set up criteria for their ideal partners.

People as the Roots (of the State): Democratic Elements in the Politics of Traditional Vietnamese Confucianism

Abstract In this paper, the concept of “people as the roots” (of the state) is explored through its myriad expressions in Vietnamese history: the emphasis of Vietnamese feudal rulers on fulfilling the people’s will, loving the people, and ensuring peace for the people. From these historical examples, the authors argue that in the politics of Vietnamese traditional Confucianism, there has been the presence of democratic elements. Yet, they do not reflect a full-fledged democracy and should be seen only as signs of village democracy. This view holds an important implication for the process of democratization of modern Vietnamese society: while the concept of “people as the roots” is essential for a village democracy and is valuable for building a democracy, it does not necessarily mean a straightforward translation to a modern democracy. Here, the authors suggest that civil society will play an important role in making this transition smoother.

Role of Unemployment insurance in Sustainable development in Vietnam: Overview and policy implication

Unemployment insurance is one of the social policies that have received much attention from economists in many countries over the past decades. Since 1986, the Vietnamese economy was shifted from the centrally-planned economy to a market one leading to a very fast development of the labor market. Having a young population structure, so the unemployment problem and unemployment insurance policy had considered and recognized as the important social issues in this country. In Vietnam, the unemployment insurance policy is an important part of the Social Insurance Law, promulgated in 2008. Our paper aims to analyze the role of unemployment insurance in Vietnam since this policy officially began in 2009. The Vietnamese government has some targets in the formation of the unemployment insurance fund is the maintenance of regular compulsory contributions of parties to labor relations in combination with public budget supports, focusing on creating a stable financial funding for unemployment insurance regime in the long run. Our regression results using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method and the analysis descriptive statistics show that the unemployment insurance policy has a positive effect on reducing faster and stabilizer the unemployment rate of the Vietnamese economy (this policy have reduced the average unemployment rate by 0.66% per year since 2009). Furthermore, the unemployment insurance policy not only helps the unemployed people stabilize their lives but also provides more opportunities for them to faster continue participating in the labor market by many benefits including free counseling services, free employment placement services, free training services for unemployed people in Vietnam. The success of the unemployment insurance policy has been noted in reducing the number of labor strikes by softening the relationship between employers and their workers in Vietnam. Besides, the unemployment insurance policy will help reduce the fluctuations of the economic cycles automatically by increasing the aggregate demand by multiplier mechanic and contributes to support the economic growth in Vietnam in the period 2008-2010. We can conclude the benefits of unemployment insurance help the development of Vietnamese society towards sustainability in the long run. Finally, the article also suggested some policy implications for the policymakers to have a better control the unemployment as well as stabilize the labor market in Vietnam in the future.

“IF MY MOTHER WERE STILL ALIVE, I AND YOU WOULD DEFINITELY GET DIVORCED”: A CASE STUDY OF A VIETNAMESE WOMAN’S REFUSING IN INTERACTION

This paper presents the major findings from a recent study conducted to explore how a Vietnamese woman refuses a high-stakes advice or request in everyday conversations. Data used in this study are conversations excerpted from a TV series entitled Những công dân tập thể (lit. the citizens living in the same apartment building). The analytical tool is a combination of Conversation Analysis (Hutchby & Wooffitt, 1998, 2008; Sacks, 1992a, 1992b) and Multimodal Interactional Analysis (Norris, 2004, 2009). The results show that (1) Vietnamese refusing is often performed concurrently by different modes of communication and language is only one of them; (2) refusing a high-stakes advice or request often takes a long time to negotiate in a conversation and through a series of conversations; and (3) Vietnamese women’s responsibility to obey their parents, a Confucian teaching, still has its role in contemporary Vietnamese society.

Reshaping boundaries: Family politics and GLBTQ resistance in urban Vietnam

Although Vietnamese society is currently undergoing significant changes with regards to the rights and perceptions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) people, dominant socio-cultural norms related to gender, sexuality, and the importance of the patrilineal family regime continue to cast a shadow over the lives of GLBTQ in contemporary Vietnam. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the urban centers of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, as well as legal documents and secondary sources, this article illustrates how dominant heteronormative socio-cultural norms have contributed to the political, legal, and social exclusion of same-sex sexualities through a process of outlawing, whereby GLBTQ have been systematically excluded from the rights of law. Drawing on qualitative interviews with gay men and lesbian women between the ages of 20 and 50, the article also highlights how this relation of domination has allowed for instances of GLBTQ resistance, through subversive opposition, strategies of avoidance, and the seeking out of new opportunities in urban spaces outside the dominant sociality. The article thus provides a qualitatively nuanced account of family politics and GLBTQ resistance in urban Vietnam at a significant socio-political historical juncture.

Vietnamese Society of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine: Past, Current and Future.

Introduction:Currently, most of continents and countries have its own radiological societies which help to share and update clinical experience and scientific knowledge to make the outcome of routine work become efficacious. Although Vietnam was affected adversely due to war, it also developed fundamentally in radiological field. So as to interact better among radiological societies, we believe that the history and current condition of Vietnamese radiology should be introduced.Aim:Thus, in this paper, we aimed to describe the past, current, and future of Vietnamese Society of Radiology and Nuclear medicine.Methods:We collected the information about Vietnamese Society of Radiology and Nuclear medicine via internet source and publications.Results:Radiological society was established in 1961. Although the society developed successfully during 59 years, there are still some problematic conditions such as gender disparity, insufficiency of human resource and modern modalities.Conclusion:With the appearance of Vietnamese society of radiology and nuclear medicine, many doctors and technicians are close together, and Vietnam has an effective chance for radiology to intergrate into actively global radiological field.

Nguyen Trai’s thought on philosophical ethics and its value for the Vietnamese society today

Nguyen Trai’s thought on philosophical ethics and its value for the Vietnamese society today

Today’s teachers’ CEFR competence in the classroom – a view of critical pedagogy in Vietnam

This paper aims to investigate new perspectives about today’s teachers’ CEFR Competence1 in the classroom under the view of critical pedagogy in Vietnam. The focus is on recognizing teachers’ CEFR competence in their teaching practice and beliefs in the context of Vietnam when developing learners’ CEFR competence. In light of pedagogical innovation and the social-adaptive divergence of English teaching and learning practices, various critical pedagogical perspectives would be analysed using the data collected from 13 Vietnamese teachers teaching learners with various CEFR goals with the instruments of a survey and semi-structured interviews. The data would be processed using Padilla’s technique of unfolding matrix and then classified to be relevant to different categories of CEFR competence in teaching language in today’s Vietnamese society. The findings would be considered in terms of types of teachers’ CEFR competence in teaching to satisfy learners’ goals in their learning. To some extent, teachers showed their unfamiliarity with or alienness to CEFR principles for teaching and learning English in which teachers were aware of and prepared themselves with new abilities, skills, and expectations to strengthen their language competence. The results of this study may be valuable for pedagogical trainers, educators, teachers, and teacher trainees of English at different levels of education and schools where learners represent a diversity of abilities and goals.

Cultural additivity: behavioural insights from the interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in folktales

Computational folkloristics, which is rooted in the movement to make folklore studies more scientific, has transformed the way researchers in humanities detect patterns of cultural transmission in large folklore collections. This interdisciplinary study contributes to the literature through its application of Bayesian statistics in analyzing Vietnamese folklore. By breaking down 307 stories in popular Vietnamese folktales and major story collections and categorizing their core messages under the values or anti-values of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, the study shows how the Bayesian method helps discover an underlying behavioural phenomenon called “cultural additivity.” The term, which is inspired by the principle of additivity in probability, adds to the voluminous works on syncretism, creolization and hybridity in its technical dimension. Here, to evaluate how the values and norms of the aforementioned three religions (“tam giáo” 三教) co-exist, interact, and influence Vietnamese society, the study proposes three models of additivity for religious faiths: (a) no additivity, (b) simple additivity, and (c) complex additivity. The empirical results confirm the existence of “cultural additivity” : not only is there an isolation of Buddhism in the folktales, there is also a higher possibility of interaction or addition of Confucian and Taoist values even when these two religions hold different value systems (β{VT.VC} = 0.86). The arbitrary blend of the three religions is an example of the observed phenomenon of Vietnamese people selecting and adding ideas, beliefs, or artefacts—which may sometimes appear contradictory to principles of their existing beliefs—to their culture. The behavioural pattern is omnipresent in the sense that it can also be seen in Vietnamese arts, architecture, or adoption of new ideas and religions, among others. The “cultural additivity” concept, backed by robust statistical analysis, is an attempt to fill in the cultural core pointed out by syncretism and account for the rising complexity of modern societies.

The Vietnam Women's Movement for the Right to Live: a non-communist opposition movement to the American war in Vietnam

ABSTRACTThis article examines the political and diplomatic struggles in urban South Vietnam from the perspective of women in the Vietnamese Women’s Movement for the Right to Live (WRL) during the Vietnam War. This movement was a timely response to the American war of aggression, which had destroyed the fabric of South Vietnamese society and drastically diminished women’s position within it by 1970. Under the leadership of Mrs. Ngô Bá Thành, the WRL fought for peace and women’s liberation through political action and shrewd diplomacy. Unlike female guerrilla fighters, the WRL maintained political autonomy and neutrality throughout the conflict. As a result, it was violently repressed by the Saigon government and quickly disbanded after the communist victory in 1975. Nevertheless, studying these politically sophisticated women’s anti-war efforts is crucial to understanding the symbiotic yet destructive relationship between Third World women and American imperialism during the twentieth century. It also helps dismantle essentialist assumptions about Asian women as inherently submissive and politically naïve. The WRL is a sterling example of Vietnamese women’s ingenuity in their dual struggle for national liberation and gender equality.

Ideological and Philosophical Underpinnings of Attitudes Toward Sexual Minorities in Vietnamese Society

This paper examines the ideological and philosophical underpinnings of attitudes toward sexual minorities in Vietnamese society. The analysis focuses on the so-called ‘Three Teachings’ (Tam giao) consisting of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism which are widely regarded as the most influential philosophies that shape Vietnamese culture and society. It is argued that these ideologies and philosophies engender systems of thought that resonate with how Vietnamese people think about and act toward sexual minorities. The article concludes with implications for research and practice in advancing the rights of sexual minorities in contexts bearing such influences.

The Influence Of Hinduism Toward Islam Bani: Study Of Religious Thought Of Muslim Champa, Viet Nam

This article would like to traceabout: when is the emergence of Bani Islam, what is the teachings of Islam Bani,what is the influence of Hinduism toward Muslim worship of Bani Vietnamese, andwhat are the Vietnamese Muslim businesses in purifying/renewing their teachings. This article was conducted in NinhThuan Province, Vietnam in 2017. The subject of the study were the figures of the Champa Muslim community (Bani and Cham Islam), then the worshipers of the two groups above. The object of this research was Hindu effect on Bani Islam.The population in this research were the Bani religious figures and Cham Islam/Sunni whose numbers could not be identified completely because they were spread in various regions. The analysis that the author used in this study was a Qualitative Descriptive analysis. This article concludes thatin Vietnam there are two Islamic groups namely Cham Islam and Early Cham (Cham Bani). The way to worship the Cham Bani group was influenced by Hinduism, which has become a tradition of Vietnamese society before the arrival of Islam. This happened due to the unfinished Islamization process.Cham Bani's way of worship is still going on nowadays, even though there have been purification efforts from various parties to improve the way they worship.

A Mandala of Literacy Practices in Premodern Vietnam

Based on an analysis of historical materials written in Literary Sinitic and vernacular Vietnamese (Chữ Nôm), this article examines the contexts of Buddhist knowledge and Buddhist literacy practices in premodern Vietnam. I argue that Buddhist monks were key agents in a complex system of literacy practices that mimic the conceptual form of the mandala. They taught Literary Sinitic (and sinographic characters) as well as vernacular Vietnamese (Chữ Nôm), translated texts from the Buddhist canon into Vietnamese, composed Buddhist works, made handwritten books, carved woodblocks, and published woodblock texts. Meanwhile, the Buddhist temple in traditional culture was a marvelous place not only for self-cultivation, but also to educate Buddhist novices and lay people, and to expand the Buddhist order. The Buddhist temple was a multifunctional space, existing as a hall of reverence, a place of Buddhist worship, and a temple to the forefathers, as well as a center of translation, a Buddhist school, printshop, publisher, archive, library and bookshop. There were, furthermore, complex mandalas of Buddhist temples in traditional Vietnamese society, since virtually every village contained a Buddhist temple. Thus, the network of literacy practices of a given temple directly affected the cultural life of the community of the village in which it was located, including its religious beliefs, economy, and especially its literate education. The structure of these interactions form a complex mandala of Buddhist literacy practices in Vietnamese traditional culture.

Trust Issues and Spirituality - the Trigger for New Managerial Approaches

As a transitional economy, Vietnam has undergone tremendous changes over recent decades within a ‘fusion’ context that blends both traditional and modern values from its complex history. However, few studies have explored how contemporary issues in the context of Vietnam have brought both obstacles and new initiatives to managerial approaches in doing business. We contribute to the literature of management studies in the context of transitional economies by exploring how dilemmas of trust have initiated new managerial approaches that involve spirituality in general, and the application of Buddhist management practices in particular in the Vietnamese business environment. We carried out in- depth interviews in Vietnam with 33 organization leaders, using thematic analysis to elucidate our findings and arguments. Our findings reveal that challenges arising from the skepticism that is a feature of Vietnamese society have motivated new managerial approaches.

MASCULINIZING THE FEMININE IN TU LUC VAN DOAN (A CASE STUDY KHAI HUNG’S COCK-HEN (TRỐNG MÁI))

Concerning an issue of individual emancipation and a feminist sense in Vietnamese literature in the 1930s, Khai Hung’s Cock-Hen describes Hien as a representative of an innovative women image in compare with the traditional culture. Masculinizing rules of the feminity in the creation of a character have provided Hien most characteristics of male privileges such as a powerful body, a strong personality, and the interest in adventures and risks. Cock-Hen, thus, helps us to identify a feature of feminism in Vietnamese society in the early 20th century.