The eponymous heroine is the most acclaimed lady ... Literary criticisms, different interpretations and translations of Kiều, both in Vietnamese and foreign languages, continue to be published ...

"It spreads, in small ways, from one person to the next." In Vietnamese literature, Kieu, a heroine who is quite assertive in love considering the Confucian ideal of female timidity and obedience of ...

Vietnamese American actress Kieu Chinh, 86, understands the consequences of these depictions better than anyone. Boasting a 67-year acting career across 65 and counting Asian and U.S. television ...

The social context in Vietnam from the feudal to the modern times is recreated in the “Kim Van Kieu”. A special point in the opera is that besides the heroine Kieu in the origin by Nguyen Du, ...

Five decades after Kieu Chinh became a Vietnam War refugee, she now co-stars in the HBO miniseries 'The Sympathizer' and ...

Kieu Chinh and her family now reside in Southern California. But toward the end of the Vietnam War, she had sent her children to live with relatives in Canada. In the spring of 1975, when people ...

The "Tale of Kieu," written by Nguyen Du (1766-1820), remains the most loved and treasured of all Vietnamese epics. It tells of the saga of a virtuous woman named Thuy Kieu who sold herself into ...

Hundreds of thousands of overseas Vietnamese, who are known as “Viet Kieu”, visit their homeland every year. Official data on how many stay permanently are scarce, but many do. The flow began ...

Kieu Chinh as The Major’s Mother, whom he continues to dote on from Vietnam to their new home in America. While Kieu Chinh (already an established actress before continuing her career in the U.S ...

Nothing warms our tummies more than a hot bowl of soup, especially as the chilly winter months approach the Garden State. The Vietnamese soup pho, pronounced as “fuh,” takes that bowl to the ...

“Kieu Chinh is a legend of Vietnamese cinema and popular culture," he emailed me. "Vietnamese audiences adore her, and she has played prominent roles in American cinema as well, from 'The Joy ...