3. Date of birth: 16st October 1976
4. Place of birth: Hanoi
5. Admission Decision No. 4023/QD-DT dated 27/11/2012 by The President of Vietnam National University, Hanoi
6. Changes in academic process:
Decision No. 261/QD-VNH dated 16/11/2015 by The Director of VNU Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science on Extension of studying time (for 24 months).
Decision No.175/QĐ-VNH dated May 10, 2016 by the Director of VNU Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science on Shifting the Academic Program.
Decision No.454/QĐ-VNH dated December 30, 2016 by the Director of VNU Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science on Changing the Title of dissertation.
7. Official dissertation title: “Hanoi’s street names during the period 1888-2008 (based on archives of the four districts: Ba Dinh, Hoan Kiem, Dong Da, Hai Ba Trung”
8. Major: Vietnamese Studies
9. Code: 62 22 01 13
10. Supervisors: First Supervisor: Associate. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Viet Thanh
Second Supervisor: Dr. Dao Thi Dien
11. Summary of the new findings of the dissertation:
- This dissertation is the first research that applies Area Studies perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to explore historical-cultural space of Hanoi city based on data of Hanoi’s street names from 1888 to 2008.
- The dissertation is the first research that focuses on the process of transformation of Hanoi’s street names from the period of French colonialism up to present under the effect of political authors, policies, social and cultural factors. From street names perspectives, motivations of (re)naming streets will be revealed to explore symbols were applied on Hanoi city by political regimes.
- In the dissertation, some up-to-date toponymic theories were applied to analyze Hanoi’s street names. The dissertation provides a new classification on Hanoi’s street names based on mechanism of naming streets.
12. Applicability:
- Based on data of Hanoi’s street names from French colonialism to the year 2008, the dissertation can provide an overview of historical-cultural space of Hanoi city during the period 1888-2008.
- The dissertation can analyze the transformation of Hanoi’s street names through historical stages during the period 1888-2008 which was affected by political, social, and cultural conditions. The hidden motivational factors that affected methods and practices of naming streets can be revealed.
- Based on system of Hanoi’s street names, the layers of historical – cultural characteristics of Hanoi city will be discovered through analyzing groups of Hanoi’s street names.
- The dissertation can be used as a textbook for educational purposes on Hanoi Studies.
13. Further research directions:
- Street names can be considered as a tool of commemoration of cultural values which belonged to the past. Also, street names can be a knot which ties ancient Hanoi city and modern Hanoi city.
- Nowadays, there is a trend of recalling the commemoration of historical figures who used to be negated in the past. Moreover, in the new urban areas in Hanoi, it seems that an emerging trend is returning to the way of (re)naming streets which existed in Hanoi from colonialism to the year 2008. This requires a further research which might focus on new emerged factors, such as, the community participation in to the process of naming streets, doing economic-social surveys before applying names to streets, and so on.
14. Relevant publications of PhD Student (list them in chronological order)
Phung Thi Thanh Lam (2017), Images of ancient Hanoi city based on data of street names, Journal of Lexicography & Encyclopedia, Vol.2, March 2017, pp.52-58.
Phung Thi Thanh Lam, Pham Thi Thuong Thuong, Le Thi Hoai Duong (2016), Typology place names and street names (based on data of Hanoi’s street names during the period 1888-2008), Full-text Proceeding of the National Conference on “Teaching Vietnamese Language in Schools”, Quang Tri, Vietnam, June 12th, 2016, Publisher Dan Tri, pp.859-867.
Phung Thi Thanh Lam (2015), Hanoi’s Street Names: Interpreting Now from the Past, Full-text Proceedings of the International Workshop on “Place Names to the Public”, UNGEGN Jeju, Korea, October 8-10, 2015, pp. 55-63.
Phung Thi Thanh Lam (2015), Hanoi’s Street Names: Foundation and Development, Proceedings of the Conference on “Vietnamese Studies: Tradition Aspects”, 2015, the Publisher of Social Science, pp 962-970.
Phung Thi Thanh Lam (2015), Hanoi’s street names: A reflection of a political- cultural city, Proceedings of the Workshop on “Geographical Name in International Integration” UNGEGN Hanoi, Vietnam, 13 May 2015, pp 18-24.
Vu Kim Chi, Phung Thi Thanh Lam, Nguyen Thuy Hang (2015), Toponymy: World research trends, Proceedings of the Workshop on “Geographical Name in International Integration” UNGEGN Hanoi, Vietnam, 13 May 2015, pp 34-40.
Phung Thi Thanh Lam, Vu Thi Thanh Phuong (2015), An overview of place names in Bao Lac, Cao Bang province (based on data of the document “Place names and Archives documents of Tonkin villages”), Proceeding of National Conference of Tai, International Publishing House, pp. 79-86.
Phung Thi Thanh Lam (2015), Naming Hanoi’s streets after historical figures from 1945 to present, Proceeding of Conference on Enhance quality of the act of naming streets and public places on Hanoi city, Hanoi Municipal Committee, pp.33-44.
Nguyen Thi Viet Thanh, Phung Thi Thanh Lam (2013), Hanoi’s street names during French colonization, VNU - Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol.29, No.3, pp. 66-74
