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Song Dong Nai: see Dong Nai, river, Vietnam.

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Dong, Pham Van

Dong, Pham Van, 1906-2000, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam (1954-76) and of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976-87). Scion of a prominent Mandarin family, he joined the activist Communist underground in the 1920s, was imprisoned by the French for seven years, and twice forced to flee to China. A close associate of Ho Chi Minh, Dong was one of the founders of the Viet Minh, a nationalist organization. After leading the Vietnamese delegation to the 1954 peace talks with France, which resulted (to Dong's dismay) in an agreement dividing Vietnam into North and South, Dong assumed the office of prime minister, also serving as minister of foreign affairs (1954-61). After Ho Chi Minh's death (1969), Dong's position became even more important. Prime minister of a reunited Vietnam beginning in 1976, he resigned from the politburo in 1986, and was replaced as prime minister in 1987, although he remained a government adviser. Dong was the author of Vietnam: A History (tr. 1983).

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Dong Nai

Dong Nai or Donnai, river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, rising as the Da Dung in the mountains of S central Vietnam. It flows SW past Bien Hoa and joins with the Saigon River below Ho Chi Minh City to form an extensive delta on the South China Sea. There are rapids and waterfalls on its upper reaches.

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Dong-nai River

or Donnai River

River, southern Vietnam. Rising in the central highlands, it flows southwest for about 300 mi (480 km), joining the Saigon River northeast of Ho Chi Minh City and combining with it and other streams to form an estuary north of the Mekong delta.

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Dong Qichang

or Tung Ch'i-ch'ang

(born 1555, Huating, Kiangsu province, China—died 1636) Chinese painter, calligrapher, and theoretician of the late Ming period. He is noted especially for his writings on Chinese painting, which he divided into the Northern school, which taught the acquisition of truth, and the Southern school, which emphasized sudden, intuitive understanding. At the centre of the scholarly ideal of the Southern school was the art of calligraphy, which expressed the true nature of the artist without the interposition of pictorial description. Dong Qichang's own paintings stress stark forms, seemingly anomalous spatial renderings, and naive handling of ink and brush. His ideas continue to influence Chinese aesthetic theory.

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