With "Vietnamese Bad Habits", Di Li is the first female author to present an analytical perspective on Vietnamese bad habits and explanations based on decades of painstaking research and her rich experience.
Vietnamese bad habits include 48 stories about self-esteem, valuing emotion over reason, one-sidedness, blaming, being lazy to say thank you, being lazy to read books, being lazy to express positive emotions but only liking to say negative things directly, criticizing and praising, being tactless or interfering in personal matters, male chauvinism, being too considerate, making noise, being too formal, liking bribery, petty corruption, and liking achievements.
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| Vietnamese Bad Habits is part of a research book series on modern Vietnamese personality and Vietnamese Good Habits (not yet published). (Source: Nha Nam) |
The author also analyzes some other bad habits such as liking to be a teacher and not a worker, being obsessed with degrees, studying only for promotion, lacking independence, vanity, showing off, greed, not protecting public property, selfishness, thinking short-term and only seeing immediate benefits, the habit of breaking the law, never knowing enough, wastefulness...
The book was formed over a period of 15 years. The author shared: “I know that this book will cause a lot of controversy, because opinions are something that cannot be “quantified”, so there will never be a common answer.
Moreover, when these views more or less "collide" with some people, it is very likely to cause sadness. But I sincerely hope that readers will receive these stories with the most goodwill, because the book is a serious result of my long-term research on the character of the Vietnamese people, including both bad and good qualities."
Journalist Yen Ba, when writing the introduction to the book, said: “This book contains all the characteristics (and temperaments) that people avoid talking about openly, let alone concentrating them in one place. Sprinkling a few grains of pepper makes a bowl of porridge more delicious, but a whole bowl of porridge with only pepper is too spicy, how can one swallow it!
But, the story here is not a bowl of porridge with too much pepper; this is a bowl of medicine and it is very bitter! Writing about other people's vices is a risky business.
Writing about the vices of a nation is, moreover, a dangerous job. But this work is one of the first literary steps showing that the Vietnamese, here the writers, the publishers, the readers, are maturing."
Journalist Hoang A Sang also commented: "Writer Di Li wrote this book as a way to teach himself, to reduce one bad habit each day.
She does not write in a statistical style, recounting or condemning the bad habits of Vietnamese people, but through which the author and readers together draw useful lessons for life.
Vietnamese Bad Habits is part of a research book series on modern Vietnamese personality and Vietnamese Good Qualities (unpublished).
If Vietnamese Goodness is published, it can be said that she will be the first author in Vietnam to research most completely two aspects of the personality of her people.
This is the 27th book by writer Di Li. She is a female author who writes in many genres and has made a special mark in the genres of detective novels and travelogues.
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