Quê Mẹ 97-98

Table of Contents

• Centenary of the poet Tan Da (3 poems) Tản Đà
• Chronicle of a journey to China (4) Thi Vũ
• Editorial: In perspective of the New Year, thoughts for those not yet affiliated to any political party Võ Văn Ái
• Three snake tales for the Year of the Snake
• Traditional New Year pass-times in South Vietnam Vương Hồng Sển
• The Vietnamese traditional Têt Nguyễn Thu
• Têt and the altar of the ancestors Hà Y
• Anecdotes on the Tây Sơn Movement Tố Tâm
• The defeat of the Chinese army Nguyên Đán
• Quang Trung, the national hero Bích Hồng
• Quang Trung, the poet Phước Thành
• Portrait of Quang Trung Ngân Giang
• Forty years of Vietnamese Poetry (1945-1985): The new poetic language of Tô Thuy Yên
• Poem: Trường Sa Hành Tô Thùy Yên
• Poem: Hề, ta trở lại gian nhà cỏ Tô Thùy Yên
• Poem: Và rồi tất cả sẽ nguôi ngoai Tô Thùy Yên
• Round-up of world events in 1988 Hoài Nhân
• Vietnam through 1988 Hòa Khánh
• Who is Monsieur Ta? Phan Văn Đông
• Saigon 88 (1): Flourishing sweepstake industry and the fragmentation of power Tinh Văn
• Top Communist intellectuals Tran Van Giau, Ly Chanh Trung and Nguyen Khac Vien confess: Poor academic performance, weak science – Vietnam is in total decline (1) Lý Tường
• The “renovation” movement in Vietnam is at death’s door Đinh Phú Xuân
• The situation of pro-communist Vietnamese movements overseas Lê Hữu Trách
• Cartoon NHS
• Cartoon NHS
• Spring will come whatever… (short story) Nhã Ca
• The snake is a kind of … cow! Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner
• The last market of a lifetime Phạm Công Thiện
• Poem Nguyên Nghĩa
• Cartoon NHS
• How can love be defined? Nguyễn Hưng Quốc
• My world of words Phương Anh
• The last time I drank with writer Nguyên Tuân Xuân Vũ
• Poem: Tâm Xuân Nguyễn Mạnh Trinh
• Poems: Đêm đêm ở trại An Điềm :
  – Xem hoa Quỳnh nở ở nhà Lang – Hồng Luân Hoán
• Poem: Thêm một ngày đầu năm Luân Hoán
• Poem: Gửi Nguyễn Mậu Lâm Đặng Thế Kiệt
• Poem: Có buổi sáng :
  – Thành phố Xuân Thường Quán
• The Geni of the desert Ái Anh
• Secrets of the Emperor’s gynaeceum in Hue Trần Vương
• The Poet Quach Tan is 80 years oild Quê Mẹ
• Nocturnal conversation with poetess Hô Xuân Hương Đoàn Đức Nhân
• Thanh Hoa, the pain that never heals Trần Hoài Thư
• White snake, yellow dragon (Anecdote on the poetess Doan Thi Diem)
• Peace (short story) Nguyễn Lê Hồng Hưng
• Poem Dạ Quỳnh
• Swedish Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson meets writer Trân Da Tư-Nha Ca’s family Quê Mẹ
• Is composer Pham Duy thinking of going back to Vietnam ? Nguyễn Thục
• Quê Me’s book-launch and concert in Paris Quê Mẹ
• Hanoi or Ha… Loi? (satirical poem) Nguyễn Phương Thảo
• Letter box Quê Mẹ
• Peasants: from submission to revolt Quê Mẹ
• Repression in Chi Cong village in Thuan Hai Province Nguyễn Kiến Phước
• Un-democratic practices at Lac Hoa State Farm Phan Huy
• Anger in the rice-fields (Chronicle) Hà Văn Thùy
• Cookery page Nguyễn Thị Hà
• Y Lan’s Letter box Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner
• The language of flowers Lê Thị Cúc Vàng
• Readers cover Quê Me’s telephone costs for campaign to abrogate death penalty – list of donors to VHCR’s Human Rights’ support fund Quê Mẹ
• Support for Quê Me Magazine Quê Mẹ