Professor Pham Quang Minh receives the Chief Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office.

Accompanying the delegation were Taiwanese writer Wu Sheng-hung (pen name Wu Sheng), Professor Lin Ming-te (Chairman of the Taiwan National Arts Foundation), Professor Chen Yi-yuan (Director of the Institute of Social Sciences, Xiamen University), and Ms. Hsiao Shu-ching (Deputy Director of the Taiwan Literature Museum).

Professor Pham Quang Minh, the Rector, expressed his delight at welcoming the Chief Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Taiwanese scientists, and especially writer Ngo Thinh, to visit and participate in book exchange activities with the university's students.

Professor Pham Quang Minh and Mr. Richard Thach Thuy Ky (Chief Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office)

Sharing information about the university, the Rector stated that Literature is a field of study with a long tradition of training and research here. The university has Taiwanese partners such as National Taiwan University, Wenzao University of Foreign Languages, National National Cheng Kung University, and National Cheng Kung University... The university has a Taiwan Education Center to promote exchange programs between the two sides.

The university has a Department of Chinese Studies, a Center for Chinese Studies, and a Faculty of Literature, all units with significant interest in Chinese culture and literature. The translation and introduction of the book "Sweet Burden" today is a typical and meaningful collaborative activity between the university and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, especially given the limited understanding of Taiwanese literature in Vietnam.

Professor Pham Quang Minh and Taiwanese writer Wu Sheng

Mr. Richard Thach Thuy Ky thanked the University for its assistance and emphasized that the University of Social Sciences and Humanities is a leading university in Vietnam in the fields of social sciences and humanities, and that the two sides have had close cooperation. He expressed his belief that the cooperative relationship between the two sides will continue to develop in the future. To help people on both sides understand each other, the work "Sweet Burden - a duet of poetry and prose by Ngo Thinh" was selected to introduce to Vietnamese readers. Ngo Thinh is a very famous contemporary writer in Taiwan, and his poem "Sweet Burden" has been included in Taiwanese high school textbooks.

Mr. Richard Thach Thuy Ky hopes that exchange activities like this will continue to take place and that in the future, more Vietnamese writers and poets, along with representative works of Vietnamese literature, will be introduced to the Taiwanese public.