Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thua Hy received the Bui Xuan Phai Award.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thua Hy - researcher, teacher worked at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities from 1990 to 2002. He held the position of Deputy Head of the Department of Ancient and Medieval Vietnamese History, Faculty of History and received the State Prize for Science and Technology for the work "Thang Long - Hanoi in the 17th - 18th - 19th centuries" in 2010.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thua Hy

According to Vnexpress.net, his latest book - "Thang Long - Hanoi in the eyes of a Hanoian" - is written simply, containing the concerns of a son of Hanoi. In the last part called Hanoi in the perspective, he expressed his views on the shortcomings of the capital's residents. "We must look straight at the dark areas, expressed through real vices: vanity, formality, conservatism, lack of creativity in work, passive spirit with inherent habits. And recently, there are alarming manifestations of apathy... The whole picture of Hanoi's contemporary urban population is still a multi-colored picture, not easy to characterize and evaluate the quality. So far, unfortunately, there has been no scientific research on the social stratification of the contemporary urban community of Hanoi," he wrote.

Writing about the value of the work "Thang Long - Hanoi in the 17th - 18th - 19th centuries" - a typical scientific work of researcher Nguyen Thua Hy, Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Van Quan (Head of the Department of History, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU) commented: By exploiting a variety of sources of documents, especially those written in Western languages ​​(English, French), which were carefully processed, methodically and effectively, this work has outlined the appearance of Thang Long - Hanoi through different periods, especially the 17th - 18th - 19th centuries, highlighting the socio-economic structure, economic activities of Thang Long - Hanoi through the 17th - 18th - 19th centuries, the policies of the feudal states of Vietnam on this issue through the case of Thang Long - Hanoi. Sharp analysis of economic structure, social structure, class mechanism and class exchange; The generalizations about the factors of urban development and rise, about the urban-rural relationship, about the dual state-folk relationship in the city, about the form of development and transformation of the city became important theses, having a wide influence on domestic and foreign researchers, students, graduate students and postgraduates when approaching the history of Vietnamese society in the medieval period. The work became a typical study on Thang Long - Hanoi, which was cited by domestic and foreign researchers when studying Vietnamese history in general and Thang Long - Hanoi history in particular (Excerpt from the book "Portrait of a typical teacher - scientist of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU, 1945-2015").