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Life and writings of Nguyễn Tuòng Tam
Strašáková, Mária ; Lomová, Olga (advisor) ; Vasiljev, Ivo (referee) ; Forest, Alain (referee)
In this thesis I aim not only to provide a comprehensive survey of the personality and life of Nguyễn Tường Tama - Nhất Linh in historical context, but also to analyze his literary work as part of the social and cultural transformation of Vietnamese society, investigating its roots in personal as well as historical context and examining its impact on the society, either directly, or indirectly, via inspiring further similarly motivated literature. In my analysis I have been inspired by the approach of New Historicism, the main assumption of which is that literature is historical, i.e. it is a social and cultural construct as well as its author. Through careful analysis of Tam's life (his family background, schooling in Vietnam and France, career as a journalist, writer and leader of the Tự Lực Văn Đoàn (Self-Strength Literary Group), and political activities) and his writings, with special focus on his depiction of women, it is apparent that Tam, despite his ardent advocacy of modernization of Vietnamese society and individualism remained to be a Confucian gentleman (junzi) and unwittingly reinstated many Confucian values in his novels. Examining Tam's life and work one is also confronted with two more general questions concerning the analysis of Asian literatures in the process of modern...
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Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia 1979-1989: causes, course, consequences
Zelenda, Jiří ; Strašáková, Mária (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis deals with the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia in 1979 - 1989. The main concentration, however, is focused on the causes of the conflict. In addition to the immediate causes like the aggressive and unpredictable policies of the Khmer Rouge and the border disputes between Cambodia and Vietnam this study searches the deeper causes of conflict. They are found in the significant cultural differences between Khmer and Vietnamese, as well as historical resentments. The course and consequences of the occupation are analyzed in the joint chapter. This consecution emphasizes interdependence of course and consequences and achieves the greatest understanding of the analyzed issues. Thesis as a whole is aimed at the motives, goals, interests and attitude of Khmer and Vietnamese. Influence of international relations, however, is also dealt with. Up to this day, Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia in the years 1979 - 1989 has a significant influence on relationship between Vietnam and Cambodia. Therefore, this issue still needs to be dealt with by scholars am historians. This thesis is based on secondary literature and several primary sources; in particular, the works of American, Australian and Vietnamese scholars. Used sources are particularly memoirs and sources of official provenance.
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Normalization of relations between People's republic of China and Socialist republic of Vietnam after 1991
Mištík, Stanislav ; Klimeš, Ondřej (advisor) ; Strašáková, Mária (referee)
This thesis is focused on the normalization between China and Vietnam after 1991, taking into account their interruption and development after mutual renewal after 1991. This bachelor thesis presents the joint development of Sino-Vietnamese relations since their beginnings to the year 1975. Subsequently, the paper clears the reasons for the interruption of relations between China and Vietnam. The goal of this thesis is to analyze the reasons and the pretexts of interruptions of Sino-Vietnamese relations during seventies and eighties of the 20th century and Sino-Vietnamese normalization after 1991. Thesis also evaluates the mutual development of Sino-Vietnamese relations since 1991 and analyses their ongoing disputes.
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Vietnamese-Khmer relations and the third Indochina conflict
Homutová, Lada ; Strašáková, Mária (referee) ; Karlová, Petra (advisor)
This thesis examines Vietnamese-Khmer relations, with emphasis on the twentieth century, analysing reasons for their development in both international and domestic fields. This study concentrates on the acts of aggresion deeply rooted in the continuing conflicts concerning the Mekong river delta territory. In order to determine the factors which have influenced diplomatic relations between these two countries in the field of international politics, emphasis was focused on allied relations between East Asian countries and the influence of the United States and Soviet Union. The role of the Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation, a Khmer resistance organization formed with the help of Vietnam, has been examined to further explain the overthrowal of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. However, attention must also be drawn to the subsequent Veitnamese invasion of the Democratic Kampuchea. Consequentially, this study investigates a final solution for the developing Vietnamese-Cambodian border relations.
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Life cycle of a Vietnamese family
Zatloukalová, Marta ; Slavická, Binh (advisor) ; Strašáková, Mária (referee)
The focus of this study is to examine the life cycle of the traditional Vietnamese family residing in the countryside and transient rituals which individual must pass during life. The object of this work was not to grasp these transient rituals from anthropological perspective, but to assemble customs and rituals which accompany certain significant events in life as to analyze the traditional Vietnamese family in general. The work is divided into four main parts embracing description of traditional vietnamese family, childbirth and childhood, engagement and wedding ceremonies and finally death and funeral ceremonies.
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The development of literature in south Vietnam from 1954 to 1975
Jirková, Barbora ; Slavická, Binh (referee) ; Strašáková, Mária (advisor)
This thesis examines the development of literature in South Vietnam during the years 1954-1975, taking into consideration historical context in which the authors lived and created. Emphasis is given to the general socio-historical situation of South Vietnam, focusing on the factors that directly influenced production of literature, as the degree of artistic freedom or the nature and changes of readership. Follows an overview of literary movements, some of their most representative authors being introduced in greated detail.
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Proverbs of the Viet minority
Dušková, Andrea ; Strašáková, Mária (referee) ; Slavická, Binh (advisor)
This thesis propose to analyze proverbs of Viet Ethnic with the formal, historical, social, grammar but also comparative view. At first the text shows methodological distinction of phraseological units than historical subtext of the Viet Ethnic phraseology and short analysis of proverbs origin. Next interest of this thesis is in meaning of Viet Ethnic proverbs in society with an emphasis to relationships between children and parents, husband and wife and also to relationships within society. The Viet Ethnic proverbs are analysed in the light of grammar, especially with the view to sentence construction, verbs, pronouns and rhyme. The last analysis provides comparation of few Viet Ethnic proverbs with Czech proverbs. The difficulties of translation is included in this analysis as well.
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The first war in Indochina: from the August revolution to the Geneva agreements
Mištík, Stanislav ; Karlová, Petra (advisor) ; Strašáková, Mária (referee)
Táto práca sa venuje Prvej Indočínskej vojne, ktorá sa odohrala v rokoch 1946 až 1954, jej príčinám a dôsledkom. Tento vojnový konflikt mal z hľadiska vývoja v Indočíne, ale aj vo svete veľký význam, pretože ovplyvňoval dianie na medzinárodnej scéne, a to hlavne premenu postojov vtedajších veľmocí Francúzska, USA, ZSSR a neskôr aj ČĽR. Na tému Prvá Indočínska vojna bolo napísaných už mnoho významných prác, ktoré sa podrobne zaoberajú touto témou, v tejto práci sa budú rozoberať jej príčiny, priebeh, vyvodenie príčin a vyhodnotí sa politický priebeh na oboch zainteresovaných stranách konfliktu medzi Vietnamskou demokratickou republikou (VDR) a Francúzskom. Hlavným zámerom práce je poukázať na pozície Francúzska a Vietnamskej demokratickej republiky v konflikte, ich spojenectvá s ďalšími štátmi, snaha o analýzu dôsledkov na vývoj v Indočíne v danom období a zhodnotenie kľúčových momentov. Bakalárska práca sa zameriava na obdobie v rokoch 1945 až 1954, ktoré je rozdelené do nasledujúcich kapitol.
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