Rare maps and documents proving Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa(Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes have come closer to thepublic in an artistic way as dozens of their ceramic copies are on showin the southern province of Dong Nai.
Opening the exhibition onNovember 19, Mai Song Be, Director of the Dong Nai Radio and TelevisionStation – the event’s organiser, said the 31 ceramic copies were createdby Dinh Cong Lai, head of the Ceramics Faculty at the province’s FineArts College, and his associates.
The event at the station’sprecinct aims to provide knowledge on the country’s sea and islandsovereignty for the public, especially the young generation, he added.
Theexhibits include a replica of “Hoang trieu truc tinh dia du toan do” (aChinese administrative map of provincial boundaries) published in 1904under China’s Qing Dynasty, which shows that the southernmost point ofChina at that time ended at Hainan island only, without mentioningVietnam’s Hoang Sa and Truong Sa.
Meanwhile, “An Nam dai quochoa do” (the Map of the Great Country of An Nam) drawn by Jean LouisTaberd of France in 1838 depicts the archipelago of “Paracel seu CatVang” - Hoang Sa island as within Vietnam’s waters.
Anotherhighlight is the duplicate of a map of the Quang Ngai area in “Tuyen tapThien Nam Tu Chi Lo Do Thu” (A Route Map from the Capital in the FourDirections) drawn by Do Ba in the 17th century. It gave a very accuratedescription of the two archipelagoes and confirmed that the Nguyen Lordsestablished the Hoang Sa Flotilla to exploit Hoang Sa islands in the17th century.-VNA
Opening the exhibition onNovember 19, Mai Song Be, Director of the Dong Nai Radio and TelevisionStation – the event’s organiser, said the 31 ceramic copies were createdby Dinh Cong Lai, head of the Ceramics Faculty at the province’s FineArts College, and his associates.
The event at the station’sprecinct aims to provide knowledge on the country’s sea and islandsovereignty for the public, especially the young generation, he added.
Theexhibits include a replica of “Hoang trieu truc tinh dia du toan do” (aChinese administrative map of provincial boundaries) published in 1904under China’s Qing Dynasty, which shows that the southernmost point ofChina at that time ended at Hainan island only, without mentioningVietnam’s Hoang Sa and Truong Sa.
Meanwhile, “An Nam dai quochoa do” (the Map of the Great Country of An Nam) drawn by Jean LouisTaberd of France in 1838 depicts the archipelago of “Paracel seu CatVang” - Hoang Sa island as within Vietnam’s waters.
Anotherhighlight is the duplicate of a map of the Quang Ngai area in “Tuyen tapThien Nam Tu Chi Lo Do Thu” (A Route Map from the Capital in the FourDirections) drawn by Do Ba in the 17th century. It gave a very accuratedescription of the two archipelagoes and confirmed that the Nguyen Lordsestablished the Hoang Sa Flotilla to exploit Hoang Sa islands in the17th century.-VNA
