Darya Mishukova (PhD candidate)
Vietnam. The Land of dragon and fairy
 
New book about Vietnam!

Darya Mishukova (PhD candidate) graduated from Far Eastern National University in 2001 after 5 years Russian academic university program on "Oriental studies, Regional studies" with major in Vietnamese language. At the same year she began her post-graduate studies in linguistics. Having successful academic and university career she got a position of senior lecturer at the department of South East Asia languages in 2004 and vice-dean of the Faculty of South and South East Asian countries at the beginning of 2005, being the youngest vice-dean at the Far East National University until she stopped an academic career in 2007.

Beyond these achievements in academic and university life Darya Mishukova hold a position of vice-director Center of Vietnamese culture in 2003-2007. In these years there were some remarkable cultural activities successfully organized at the centre of Vietnamese culture, let's mention some of them:

• Special annual exhibitions about different aspects of traditional culture and modern life of South East Asia countries with at least 5 events per year. See archive
• Annual Vietnamese language contest. This contest was initiated by Darya Mishukova in 2004, the idea of the contest is that participant not only prove their knowledge in Vietnamese language, but also share their ideas and express feelings about different aspects of oriental culture.
• Internet writing contest "About Vietnam with love" which attracted many participants from different places of Russia and SNG countries.
• International conference "Vietnam in the modern world" in 2005 on occasion of 25th anniversary of Vietnamese studies at the Far East of Russia.

Staying as a visiting lecturer at Ramkamhaeng University (Bangkok, Thailand) for three months in winter 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 she met authorities from Ministry of culture of Thailand and Tourism Authorities of Thailand (TAT) discussing the project of opening Thailand cultural center at the university in Russia.

Participant of the International conferences and seminars:

• EvroViet V (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2002)
• II International conference on Vietnamese studies (HCM-city, Vietnam, 2004)
• ICANAS XXXVII (Moscow, Russia, 2004)
• International conference on teaching Vietnamese for foreigners (Danang, Vietnam, 2005)
• 100 anniversary of Kularb Saipradit (Bangkok, Thailand, 2005)
• Russia-Vietnam scientific and technical cooperation (Moscow, Russia, 2007)

Author of 15 published papers on linguistics, vietnamese culture and different aspects of regional studies: Russia-India relations in politics, economy, and culture; Indonesia, India, Thailand role in politics, economy, culture and cooperation in South East Asia and ASEAN