Two of Vietnam's most esteemed musicians bring their music to the Asia Society. Ms. Nguyen Thanh Thuy presents the exquisite music of the dan tranh (zither), a traditional instrument originally from ...

The Mekong is the world’s twelfth-longest river and a major trade artery between China and Southeast Asia. Its name derives from the Lao and Thai words for “mother of waters,” and for good reason: on ...

Like most kids, Thanh Tân wasn’t always into her parents’ generation’s music. Music was a constant in the second-generation Vietnamese American’s home, particularly “Paris by Night” — a ...

For Tân and other Vietnamese immigrant families who primarily fled from South Vietnam to the United States after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 — marking the end of the Vietnam War — Vietnamese ...