Information about the seminar "The Equal Division of Inheritance among Sons and Daughters in Lê Society Vietnam: A Revisit"

Sunday - 28/07/2019 00:02

Speakers: Professor. Yu Insun (Seoul National University). Seminar: The Equal Division of Inheritance among Sons and Daughters in Lê Society Vietnam: A Revisit Time: 2 pm, Monday, July 29^th, 2019 Venue: Multimedia Room, 3^rd Floor, Museum of Anthropology, Building D, VNU-USSH, 336 Nguyen Trai Street, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi, Vietnam Languages: English, Vietnamese (with spontaneous interpretation Abstract: The Lê Code is a marvelous and important achievement in the history of Đại Việt (Great Viet) in the Pre-Modern and Early Modern Times. The Law was constructed and supplemented in a long duration, being promulgated widely in terms of time and space of the Later Lê Vietnam in the 15^th-18^th centuries. Ultimately, it consisted amazingly its own advances and uniqueness comparing with the ones in East Asia and the whole world that era. Particularly, the articles on inheritance within Dai Viet’s families were those distinctiveness. This study is aimed to correct some recent arguments of scholars in Vietnamese studies (i.g. Nhung Tuyet Tran 2018) on whether or not there was equal division of inheritance among sons and daughters due to the Lê Code. I affirm that mastering the Sino-Nom scripts in studying Pre-Modern Vietnam is definitely essential, however, the scripts must be put on the historical context, among the firm knowledge of law and society contemporarily, both in Vietnam and China. Otherwise, scholars could not reach to the accurate understandings of the texts, and then making his/her faulty statements. The law on inheritance was one of the contents in the Lê Code that depicted an alternative Dai Viet being beyond the so-called ‘Chinese Model’ in its long history and culture.

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