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A categorized collection of everything findable online about the pre-1975 Vietnamese children's magazine Thiếu Nhi, with clickable sources.
Quick facts
- Full run: Issue 1 (August 15, 1971) through Issue 136 (March 15, 1975) — a weekly publication for nearly five years, ending exactly six weeks before the fall of Saigon.
- Publisher/Editor-in-Chief (chủ nhiệm): Nguyễn Hùng Trương (1926–2005), owner of the famous Khai Trí bookstore at 60–62 Lê Lợi Street, Saigon.
- Managing/Chief Editor (chủ biên): novelist Nhật Tiến, working alongside his wife, writer Đỗ Phương Khanh.
- Cover artist: Vi Vi (Võ Hùng Kiệt), who painted every cover from issue 1 to issue 136 in watercolor.
- Editorial office: 159 Thiệu Trị, Phú Nhuận, Saigon (telephone 42152).
- Fate: Widely destroyed after 1975 during campaigns against "decadent" pre-1975 Southern culture; original copies are now rare and sought by collectors.
1. History & Overview Articles
Background pieces covering the magazine's founding, staff, and place in South Vietnamese publishing.
- Ông Khai Trí Và Tờ Thiếu Nhi Tại Miền Nam Trước 1975 – Nhà Văn Nhật Tiến — the fullest single overview: founding, staff list, content sections, printing quality, and 1975 closure/destruction of copies.
- talawas — Ông Khai Trí và tờ Thiếu Nhi tại miền Nam trước 1975 — an earlier archived hosting of the same Nhật Tiến essay.
- THẾ GIỚI TUỔI HOA THIẾU NHI… của VIETNAM trước 1975 (cuuhocsinhphuyen.com) — profiles a specific special issue (No. 7, the 1971 Mid-Autumn Festival number) with editor's-note content and a scanned-PDF link via Google Drive.
- Tuần báo THIẾU NHI, TUỔI HOA số XUÂN 1975 – Lê Minh Quốc — covers the final Lunar New Year (Tết) special issues of both Thiếu Nhi and sister magazine Tuổi Hoa, published in January 1975, weeks before the magazine's closure.
2. Personal Essays & Memoirs
First-person recollections from readers and contributors who grew up with the magazine.
- Thời Thiếu Niên Đọc Sách Của Tôi & Những Sinh Hoạt về Báo Thiếu Nhi – Da Màu Magazine — a personal memoir of childhood reading habits and interaction with the Thiếu Nhi editorial circle (page returned a 403 on direct fetch; accessible via the link in a browser).
- Em cần mua tạp chí Thiếu nhi trước 1975 (sachxua.net forum) — a reader's request to buy original pre-1975 copies, illustrative of present-day collector demand.
- Cầm mua Tuần báo Thiếu Nhi trước 1975 (sachxua.net forum) — another buy/sell/collector thread specifically about the weekly.
3. Key People
Biographical material on the magazine's founder, editors, and principal illustrator.
- Những câu chuyện về ông Nguyễn Hùng Trương và nhà sách Khai Trí nổi tiếng một thời (nhacxua.vn) — profile of founder/editor-in-chief Nguyễn Hùng Trương and the Khai Trí bookstore that financed and distributed the magazine.
- ViVi Võ Hùng Kiệt – Wikipedia tiếng Việt — full biography of cover artist Vi Vi (b. 1945, Vĩnh Long): early career, pen-name origin, pre-1975 magazine and postage-stamp illustration work, emigration to Canada (1981) then California (1995).
- Nam Ròm: Hình xưa – Họa sĩ Vivi và bìa báo Tuổi Hoa — gallery of Vi Vi's cover paintings for sister publication Tuổi Hoa, same visual style used on Thiếu Nhi.
- Họa sĩ Vivi và bìa báo Tuổi Hoa – Phay Van (WordPress) — additional Vi Vi cover-art retrospective.
4. Archives, Scans & Digitized Issues
Where surviving physical copies have been scanned or discussed online. Coverage is partial — many issues remain unaccounted for.
- Tuần Báo Thiếu Nhi (1971–1975) – Diễn Đàn Sách Việt Nam (sachvn.net) — the most substantial archive lead found: a collector forum thread organizing scanned cover/page images by issue range (1–10, 11–20, 21–30, etc.), though several issues are marked missing and some scans are of unclear provenance ("tải trên mạng").
- THẾ GIỚI TUỔI HOA THIẾU NHI… (cuuhocsinhphuyen.com) — includes a Google Drive–hosted scanned PDF of Issue 7 (Mid-Autumn Festival special, September 26, 1971).
- Viet Messenger — Tuổi Hoa collection index — a large Vietnamese pre-1975 ebook preservation site; indexes the closely related Tủ Sách Tuổi Hoa book series (shared writers/artists with Thiếu Nhi) rather than the weekly magazine itself.
- THƯ VIỆN EBOOK (TVE-4U) — Tủ sách scan truyện thiếu nhi xưa 6x–9x — a general pre-1975/pre-1990s children's-literature scanning project forum; not magazine-specific but the same preservation community that hosts Thiếu Nhi-adjacent material.
5. Related & Sister Publications
Thiếu Nhi did not exist in isolation — it shared writers, illustrators, and readership with a small cluster of Saigon youth periodicals.
- Tuổi Hoa — bimonthly youth magazine and book series founded June 1962, predating Thiếu Nhi by nearly a decade; shared contributors and cover artist Vi Vi. See the Lê Minh Quốc Xuân 1975 piece and Viet Messenger's Tuổi Hoa index.
- Tuổi Xanh — an earlier magazine (from the late 1950s) where Vi Vi first published as a teenager; see his Wikipedia biography.
- Thằng Bờm — another contemporary Saigon children's periodical mentioned alongside Thiếu Nhi as sharing the same pool of writers, per search summaries of the Tuổi Hoa history above.
Notes on completeness
No dedicated Vietnamese-language Wikipedia article exists for Thiếu Nhi itself (searches turned up only unrelated "Thiếu Nhi"-named topics: Children's Day, various Catholic youth movements, and a North Vietnamese/Đội Thiếu niên publication of the same generic name — not to be confused with this magazine). The fullest connected-prose account remains the Nhật Tiến essay in Section 1. A handful of promising leads — the nhacxua.vn articles on the same topic, and one Da Màu essay — returned bot-blocking redirects or 403 errors on direct fetch and are listed above with that caveat; they may still be readable by a human visiting the link directly in a browser.