02755nas a2200325   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003653002000044653001300064653002200077653002100099653002100120653002200141653001300163653002300176653002200199653002300221653002300244653002700267653001900294653001800313653001400331100001400345245008900359300001200448490000700460520194200467022002002409       2015                            d10acultural policy10aFolklore10aSocialist Vietnam10aVan hoa dan gian10aVan hoc dan gian10aVan nghe dan gian10aViet Nam10acultural geography10acultural heritage10acultural influence10acultural tradition10ahistorical perspective10aparty politics10asocial policy10asocialism1 aS. Oizumi00aCollection and study of folklore in relation to cultural policy in socialist Vietnam  a235-2660 v523 aThis study investigates how the collection and study of folklore in socialist Vietnam contributed to the Communist Party of Vietnamʼs and the governmentʼs cultural policy. It focuses on the Sino- Vietnamese terminology used in the folklore studies of socialist Vietnam and explains their changes in relation to cultural policy. From the end of the 1950s, the collection of folk literature (van hoc dan gian) was promoted in provincial areas because of the Partyʼs mass cultural policy. There, both politicians and scholars recognized that the collection of folk literature could not be separated from the collection of folk arts. This led them to introduce the term van nghe dan gian (VNgDG), a phrase that combines the terms for folk literature and folk arts, to reorganize the collection. In the late 1970s, the Party strengthened its control over the cultural sphere to abolish traces of the “old regimes.” It thought that VNgDG contained many “old” elements that needed to be modified into more appropriate ones. And as China-Vietnam relations critically worsened at the end of the 1970s, VNgDG was finally criticized as being of “no use” because of its Chineseoriented content and methodology. On the other hand, scholars had to highlight the tradition of “Vietnamese culture” in order to confront the “long-lasting Chinese culture,” which led them to approach folklore from a historical perspective. At the same time, some scholars commented that VNgDG had become too “socialized” and emphasized the importance of scientific research on folklore. Consequently, they began to use the new term van hoa dan gian (VHDG), which literally means folk culture, to rejuvenate folklore studies. Currently, after the Law of Cultural Heritage was issued in 2001, the popularization of the concept of “intangible cultural heritage” (di san van hoa phi vat the) has made the status of the term “VHDG” unstable.  a05638682 (ISSN)