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).

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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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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Dong may refer to:

Asian languages

• Vietnamese đồng (₫), the currency unit of Vietnam
• Dong people (侗族), an ethnic minority group in China
• Dong language
• Dong Lake, a lake in the Hunan Province of China
• Dong quai, a medicinal herb
• Dong (동 or 洞), a section of a city in South Korea, smaller than a gu (ward) and approximately the size of five city blocks
• A Sponge-model Nokia cellular phone
• Dong (film) (东), a documentary film by filmmaker Jia Zhangke

People

• Long Duk Dong or "the Donger," a character in the 1984 American movie Sixteen Candles
• Dong Fangzhuo (董方卓), a Chinese football player
• Dong (surname), a transliteration of Chinese family names 董,東 (in Mandarin pinyin) and 黨 (in Cantonese)
• Dong (name), Vietnamese for the season of winter

Dong may also mean:

• Penis or dildo (slang)
• Long Dong Silver, a pornographic actor
• A language game where words are spelled out and consonants have the syllable -ong added on the end
• A creature in the nonsense poem of Edward Lear, The Dong with a Luminous Nose
• A home run in the sport of baseball
• Dong Open Air, a heavy metal festival in Germany, named after the Dong hill

DONG can be an abbreviation for:

• DONG Energy, Denmark's energy company
• DONG Cup, a former name of the Danish Cup trophy, sponsored by the oil company from 2000 to 2004

See also

• Taepodong and Rodong-1, types of North Korean missiles