“Hanoi - Biography of a City” - valuable documents about the Capital, pulsing from the great hearts of the writer and translator

The book "Hanoi - Biography of a City" wasAssociate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thua Hy- former Deputy Head of the Department of Ancient and Medieval Vietnamese History, Faculty of History, University of Social Sciences and Humanities - VNU, translated from the book "Hanoi: Biography of a city" by Prof. Dr. William Stewart Logan - Publishing House of the University of New South Wales (Sidney, Australia), President of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Fund.

According to Professor Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan, the book deals with the history of Hanoi over 1000 years. There is a harmonious combination of many domestic and foreign sources. In addition, the book brings a new and unique perspective of Hanoi from a foreign perspective.
In particular, with its unconventional writing style and structure, the work leaves an unmistakable mark among books about Hanoi because of its unique, unconventional writing style and tone.
In order for the book to reach domestic readers, it is impossible not to mention the contribution of the translator of the book. Therefore, Prof. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan highly appreciates the knowledge and enthusiasm of Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Thua Hy in translating this book. He believes that the great heart of the writer blends with the great heart of the translator to create a work, a heritage for those who love Hanoi to have more valuable documents about our beloved Capital.

The book “Hanoi - Biography of a City” was first published by Hanoi Publishing House in 2010, and is part of the “Thang Long - Hanoi - a Thousand Years of Culture” Bookcase - a meaningful work to celebrate Hanoi's 1000th birthday. In 2023, Hanoi Publishing House will republish the book to meet the needs of readers and researchers.
“Hanoi - Biography of a City” is over 400 pages long, presenting a fairly detailed “biography” of Hanoi spanning a millennium, leading readers through 8 chapters, from “Ideology, memory and heritage significance”, “Thang Long, the flying dragon city”, “Hanoi in the pre-colonial period and Chinese imprints”... to “Innovation and Hanoi in the 1990s”, “Hanoi facing the new millennium”.
Author William Stewart Logan is an experienced expert in history, architecture, urban planning and urban conservation, and has written extensively on these issues, especially urbanism in developing Asian countries.
With the perspective of a serious and enthusiastic scientist, an “outside observer”, through the book, the author has brought a lot of useful information and new experiences to readers who love Hanoi.