Tạp chí Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn Đại học Quốc gia Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh

Urban management confronts various challenges posed by the escalating urbanization process unfolding throughout the entire nation. These challenges encompass population and housing issues, environmental governance, administrative management, and social security. In order to attain equilibrium amidst these issues, urban areas necessitate an adept workforce equipped with interdisciplinary knowledge to effectively address the multifaceted concerns encountered in urban settings. This paper concentrates on a comprehensive analysis of the prevailing state of competency fulfillment and the requisites for human resources in the domain of state administration related to urban areas in Ho Chi Minh City. The findings reveal that the existing human resource pool engaged in urban management in Ho Chi Minh City exhibits a commendable level of proficiency. However, ongoing self-training and advanced professional development remain indispensable for meeting occupational demands. There persists a scarcity of human resources in certain specialized sectors. Subsequently, given the swift evolution of the urban landscape encompassing socio-economic development, spatial expansion, and urban infrastructure, Ho Chi Minh City necessitates a substantial workforce for proficient urban management in the coming years. To foster professional management practices and yield optimal outcomes, it is imperative to formulate a specialized Urban Management curriculum catering to the distinctive requirements of Ho Chi Minh City, providing a steady stream of capable human resources for urban management endeavors in Ho Chi Minh City and the neighboring southern provinces and cities.

The Tre Coc Tale of Vietnam (The Nom Tre Coc Tale) and Reynard the Fox of France (French: Roman de Renard, English: Reynard the Fox) are the two compositions created in the post-medieval period in each literature. When they are placed in a comparative relationship, it is easy to see that these two literary cases have a lot of similarities. Firstly, both the Tre Coc Tale and Reynard the Fox are all narrative poems circulated in the folksy context. At the same time, their anonymous authors created stories about the animal society. Therefore, we have posed the research question that this similarity is due to a chance or it is a rule of a literary age. The historical typology comparison school has provided us with some useful suggestions for answering the research question raised. The method of writing is the issue which we focus on discussing when we compare the Tre Coc Tale and Reynard the Fox. This is a theoretical concept created by Soviet literary researchers. From a historical perspective, the concept of the method of writing helps us to identify the phenomenon of stories about the animal society in the Tre Coc Tale and Reynard the Fox as the writing style of an age and a certain group of authors. Those are the two compositions produced in the post-medieval period of the people discontented with the feudal government. In order to come to the conclusions about the writing methods of the Tre Coc Tale and Reynard the Fox, our article discusses the three main issues: the inheritance of traditional literary images, the animal society building, and the poetic storytelling method.

The United States foreign policy greatly affects the nature and evolution of the United States-China strategic competition, especially since 2017. The paper uses an individual-level analysis approach in international relations to analyze the U.S. foreign policy on the U.S.-China strategic competition under President Joe Biden. In studying the foreign policy of a country, it is equally necessary for many individuals to participate in foreign policy making or influencing. With the complicated development of an ongoing international relations phenomenon, the paper focuses on “The foreign policy of the United States under the Biden Administration on the strategic competition with China: the analysis from the individual level in international relations” to provide more multi-dimensional interpretations of how the United States reacts to the current U.S.-China strategic competition. The study delves into and analyzes individual characteristics, including personality, work experience, etc. of President Joe Biden and the implementation of the U.S. foreign policy on the strategic competition with China through various methods of international relations research, international event analysis, and especially the individual-level analysis. Research results show that despite continuing the strategies of Donald Trump on the strategic competition with China, Joe Biden deployed the softer, more cautious, and limited confrontation with China. The individual aspect is one of the factors affecting the U.S. policy making and implementing.

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a period that Western culture had a strong influence on East Asia countries. The need for finding new markets and expanding colonies of Western countries made most countries of East Asia were at risk of becoming Western colonies. This historical situation forced East Asia countries - whether they like it or not - to "Europeanize" and to absorb Western civilization achievements to survive. However, whether the impacts of Europeanization on values of culture were positive or negative, the Europeanization was strongly depended on the cultural characteristics and processes in each country. In the early twentieth century, under the impact of the process of Europeanization, large cities in Vietnam - especially Hanoi - greatly transformed the appearance and functions from medieval to early modern cities. Through research on the changing social position of Hanoi women in the process of Europeanization in the early 20th century on four dimensions: Time, space, human, and methods, the paper indicated the reasons, characteristics, rules, trends of the fluctuation of cultural values ​​in Hanoi in the early 20th century under the impact of the Europeanization process.

From the overarching vision of the historical movement in a transitional period of national independence from the end of the 9th century to the end of the 10th century and based on the objective criterion which is the degree of meeting the then historical requirements of historical figures, the article analyzes and evaluates the mission stature of Khuc Thua Du, Khuc Thua Hao and Khuc Thua My in the struggle to regain national independence of Vietnam in the early 10th century. Specifically, the article analyzes the historical requirements for Vietnam's independence and autonomy in the early 10th century as well as the fulfillment of those requirements by Khuc Thua Du, Khuc Thua Hao and Khuc Thua My. Thereby, the article suggests some comments to evaluate the contribution of these characters to Vietnamese history. At the same time, with an overview of the historical evolution of anti-aggression activities to protect Vietnam’s national independence in the next period during the 10th century, the article does some analysis to clarify the profound impacts of the mission of the Khuc family in the encouragement to separate Vietnam from the orbit of Chinese dependency at that time. From these analyses, the article comes to a remark that the great mission to separate Vietnam from Chinese dependency was not of a single person or of a family line but of the entire nation during the 10th century. On the basis of the stepping stone of that transitional century, from the 11th century, the history of Vietnam could turn into a gorgeous page of independence and autonomy, and brilliant development in the next period.

Right at the time of national financial difficulties, the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam launched the Golden Week in the framework of the Independence Fund, exhorting the entire people to raise money and wealth to help the country. Golden Week became one of the events that started Vietnam's modern history with feats and meanings that surpass the time. This article reproduces the progress and results of the event based on contemporary media sources, especially the Cuu Quoc newspaper, the Government's daily mouthpiece and propaganda agency. The concrete facts have contributed to restoring the face and stature of the event, correcting perceptions that contain many erroneous information that has been defaults before, through some scientific manipulations of quantification, statistics, matching, etc. The results of the study showed that Golden Week was conducted in two spaces associated with two diffirent time periods, including Hanoi capital from September 16, 1945 to September 30, 1945 and the whole country from September 16, 1945 to January 9, 1946; the activities of Golden Week in Hanoi capital are actually organized in seven different locations, of which there was Bac Bo palace, which gathered dozens of capitalists and landlords with the value of donations up to half of the total value of 7 million Indochina of Golden Week, demonstrating the leading role in the financial support of the rich and patriotic classes at the beginning of the consolidation of national independence.

The Buddhist revival movement in the first half of the twentieth century took place in all 3 regions in the territory of Vietnam today. The Buddhist revival movement in each region has the same purpose, even though it has some different features. The Buddhist revival movement in Southern Vietnam was characterized by divergence, otherwise, it in Central and Northern Vietnam was characterized by convergence. In this article, we choose to compare the typical associations of the three regions are The Cochinchina Buddhist Association, The Annam Buddhist Association, The Tonkin Buddhist Association. Despite establishing in the same period of time, these three associations have many fundamental differences besides some similarities. Based on the exploitation of Buddhist archives and press materials during the period of revival, this article will research the similarities and differences between associations. Comparing the three associations not only shows us the unique characteristics of each other and explains the performance of the societies, the depth of the revival activity but also helps us to understand some of the Vietnamese society in the French period. Because this is a big problem, within a small article we cannot present all the characteristics. So in this article, we only focus on analyzing the typical characteristics, these characteristics will govern the performance of the associations. Besides, the article also limited the time to research from 1930 to 1945, when Vietnam gained independence.

Gods appear in a wide variety of myths and fairy tales around nations in the world. This is one of the central images, showing a multidimensional awareness of the ancients on the nature and society. Understanding the transformation of the system of god characters in a process of sequences, the system from the myths to the fairy tales of ethnic minorities in Vietnam, we will see the development of awareness levels in thinking, in the spiritual life of the society and of Vietnamese people. From there, we see the development in the thought process and artistic performances of the ancients which were romantic and high-soaring. We also see the similarities and differences in the art of character building in ethnic minorities' myths and legends. The research outcome is to understand the origin, the way to reflect the world, the people, the process of changing according to the thought and the art process of the divine character from myth to fairy tales of the Vietnamese ethnic minorities through the following steps: 1) Describing and surveying the divine characters in 181 myths of ethnic minorities in Vietnam; 2) Describing and surveying god characters in 150 fairy tales of typical Vietnamese ethnic minorities; and 3) Giving comment , evaluating the transformation of mythical characters from myths to fairy tales through the survey results.

Through the risk concept of Urick Beck as well as the life story approach, the paper analyzes theexperience on life risk of Khmer immigration labor in Binh Duong urban. The findings show they face the difficulties on low income to ensure their life’s spending and on the loans they. For the health, though working in hazardous condition, they still do not entitle the periodic health examination. In the spiritual life, the recreational activities of Khmer immigration workers are relatively lack of abundance and diversity. Besides, they rarely have conditions to participate in religious practices and to face the risk of being excluded from their community events at their homeland.

In the current integration as deep, cultural promotion is an indispensable trend of most countries in the world in the strategy of expanding international relations and developing countries in all aspects. Cultural promotion is capable of addressing the great challenges of the era towards sustainability, such as challenges of poverty, backwardness, instability, and conflict. When the cultures of countries are in contact with each other, the promotion of culture is really necessary. For Vietnam, cultural promotion is an effective means of cultural globalization and a positive measure for Vietnam to build and expand Vietnam's soft power to the world. In recent years, Vietnam has had many activities to promote international cooperation relations with Japan, especially in the early years of the 21st century. This article confirms in the context of the promotion strategy of Vietnamese culture to Japan, tourism activities, and event organization as important channels to attract mutual understanding between the two countries. It also helps promote the image of the country, people, and culture of Vietnam to Japan. Since then, this will create a strong international relationship between the two countries and create favorable development conditions for Vietnam in the world.