Description: The manuscript of the book was completed in 1939 in French with the title La civilization annamite. But it had to wait more than 5 years later, in 1944, for it to be published in Hanoi under strict censorship by the French colonial government. 50 years later (1996), that work was translated into Vietnamese. These in-depth research documents are of great interest to experts and researchers. This is a particularly valuable book for research on Vietnamese culture.