Chinese Ancient Novels In Vietnam

Vietnam is located in the area affected by Chinese culture, therefore, there have been some culture and society similarities between them. Moreover, Vietnam and China are neighbours so they have had long and intimate relationship history. Consequently, the literary exchange relation between these two countries took place long time ago. During that long period, Vietnam adopted many Chinese literature achievements to enrich for Vietnamese literature itself, including adopting Chinese ancient novel achievements. There have been many research which focused on searching and valuing the role of Chinese culture and literature in general, Chinese ancient novels in particular on Vietnamese culture and literature. However, up to now the issue of how Chinese ancient novels in general, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Journey to the West in particular was spread to and adopted in Vietnam and how they influenced the composing and commenting Vietnamese literature still have not researched specifically and systematically, proportional with profound influences that they created.Doing the research with the topic Chinese ancient novels in Vietnam-focusing on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Journey to the West, â…  wanted to research some specific issues and they were discussed in four chapters,In Chapter One, I talked about the researching and commenting Chinese ancient novels in Vietnam from the past up to now. The purpose of this chapter is to give a genaral picture of the researching and commenting Chinese ancient novels in Vietnam. With that picture, readers can understand how Vietnamese researchers adopted and valued this kind of special work.In Chapter Two, apart from a brief presenting about spreading and translating situation of Chinese ancient novels in Vietnam, I focused on exploring the spreading and translating situation of the three typical Chinese ancient novels:Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Journey to the West. In Chapter Three, â…  researched and analysed carefully the specific influences that Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Journey to the West brought to many Vietnamese literature work from the time these three novels imported into Vietnam up to now.In the last chapter, Chapter Four, â…  analysed in detail the researching and commenting situation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Journey to the West in Vietnam in three periods:from the ending of â…©â…¨ century backward, from the beginning of XX century to1945, and from1945up to now.Presenting the thesis with four chapters like this, â…  focused on doing a research about the spreading and reception of Chinese ancient novels in Vietnam, focusing on three typical novels:Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Journey to the West. These three novels were analysed separately to reach specific and deep analysis, however, they were also put in comparing, relating with Chinese ancient novels to reach the systematic and meaningful conclusions.