Mixed Messages about Sex in Advertisements from 1930s Singapore
I like to relax by looking through old newspapers from Singapore (that have been beautifully digitized by NUS). In doing so today, I just realized that there is something odd…
Seeing Tai in Nanzhao
The effort of scholars in the People’s Republic of China to discredit the claim that the kingdom of Nanzhao (~8th-9th cents.) had been Thai/Tai culminated in 1990 with the publication…
Sujit Wongthes, PRC “Scholars” and the Question of Thai/Tai Origins
There are two words in English that confuse people – Tai and Thai. The term “Tai” is used to refer to a language family that includes such languages as Zhuang,…
The “Việt Nam Trung Hoa” Song
A reader pointed out that the melody and lyrics for the song that I included in the post below, “Việt Nam Trung Hoa,” was published in Nhân dân on September…
Sino-Vietnamese Relations in Film and Song
I was reading the Renmin ribao 人民日报 (People’s Daily) and came across a reference to a 1971 film called “The Visit to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam by a Delegation…
Whistling La Marseillaise in Vichy-Controlled Phnom Penh
There is a very famous scene in the movie Casablanca where some German officers in a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca start to sing “Die Wacht am Rhein” and then the…
Chinese Opposition to “Big Thai Race-ism” in 1949
On May 16, 1949, the PRC’s Renmin ribao 人民日报 (People’s Daily) carried a story about the change of name from Siam to Thailand. In 1939, Prime Minister Phibunsongkhram changed the…
José Rizal, Hoài-Thanh and the Spectre of Comparisons
Looking through some of the newspapers that the National Library of Vietnam has digitized, I came across a weekly newspaper called Sông Hương (Perfume River). In its first issue, published…
Overseas Chinese in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945
I recently found out that the National Library of Vietnam has digitized some newspapers. They’ve done a very good job, and it is wonderful to be able to read these…
The Man in Pumpuang Duangjan’s Dream
Pumpuang Duangjan (พุ่มพวง ดวงจันทร์) was a very famous singer of lukthung, or Thai “country” music in the 1980s who died tragically young in 1992. What follows is a translation of…
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