Singaporean Humidity + Chinese Clerk = Broken Typewriter
On 21 July 1900, US Consul in Singapore R. A. Morseley wrote a letter to Assistant Secretary of State David J. Hill in which he asked for financial support ($60…
Researching the Savage Frontier in Vietnamese History
I recently wrote (here) about a concordance tool that I was able to get to work with the Hán (i.e., classical Chinese) text of the Đại Việt sử ký toàn…
The Multiple Meanings of Khe Sanh
The Battle of Khe Sanh was an extended conflict that took place in Quang Tri Province in the first half of 1968. A few weeks ago in Vietnam there were…