A Thai Beauty Queen and the Blood of Her Soldiers
I was looking at a Thai newspaper from the 1930s called the Siam Rashdra Daily News. The front page for April 24, 1935 had an image and a notice right…
News of Death in 1895 Sarawak
I was reading the Sarawak Gazette for May 1st, 1895. It contains a section on local news. This section consists mainly of single-sentence reports about the arrival and departure of…
Imperial Imaginings in Nineteenth Century Vietnam
Oh if only I had the time and the ability. . . I was just looking at a text called the Ngự đề Danh thắng đồ hội thi tập (御題名勝圖繪詩集).…
The Two Replies of Trần Hưng Đạo
Under its entry for the year 1300, the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư contains a good deal of information about the general, Trần Hưng Đạo, as that was the…
More Thai 7-11 Curiosities
So the other day as I was faithfully drinking a beer in Bangkok with a straw which the 7-11 cashier had provided me with, I started to read the information…