By the turn of the 20th century, the first Western-style short story had appeared (Nguyen Trong Quan’s “Truyen thay Lazaro Phien” [“The Story of Lazaro Phien”], 1887) and, in 1910, the first Western-style novel (Tran Chanh Chieu’s Hoang To Anh ham oan [“The Unjust Suffering ...