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…
Street Art and a Glocal Sense of Place in Bangkok
Graffiti can be found (to at least some extent) in pretty much every major city around the world, and Bangkok is no exception. However, I was surprised recently when I…
Time to Take a Break
Summer is here. It's time for a vacation. I'm going to take a break from posting here for several weeks. In early August I will be back, and will do…
A Review of “A Thousand Years of Caps and Robes”
I’ve been meaning to write a more formal review of Trần Quang Đức’s A Thousand Years of Caps and Robes (Ngàn năm áo mũ). The customary manner to write such…
The Three Teachings (Tam Giáo) and Anxiety
I often read and hear people say that the intermixture of, and equal respect for, the “three teachings” (tam giáo 三教) is something that defined Vietnamese society in the past.…
Embarrassment and the Writing of Southeast Asian History
Buddhist-Muslim violence is taking place in Burma right now. I haven’t followed this issue closely, but at first it looked to me like a localized issue in the Rakhine State.…
Chasing Down Chinamen in Early-Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia
I was looking at records from the American consulate in Sandakan, on the island of Borneo, from the early twentieth century, and found an interesting letter to the consul general…
Visualizing Daoism in Trần Dynasty Vietnam
I’m reading a book called Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past by David J. Staley. This is how the book is summarized…
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