Chữ Nôm and Hồ Xuân Hương: Unraveling the Complexity of the Former Vietnamese Written Language and t
When we think of language and its written form, it goes through many changes and processes over time due to societal pressures of colonialism and imperialism. Language works as a marker to transcend its origin point and becomes a symbolic meaning to change with purpose to further explore hidden aspects of culture and identity. Coincidently, I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a story about an artist’s revival of the extinct Filipino writing calligraphy known as Baybayin. T