Suraphol Sombatcharoen’s 16 Years
Following World War II, the US government invested heavily in “area studies” in an effort to gain knowledge about the world which it was seeking to dominate. Southeast Asia was…
Following My Boy Lollipop into Southeast Asia
My Boy Lollipop is an American pop song that has been recorded many times around the world. There is a Finnish version of this song from 1964 that I have…
The Bad Chinese Food that Foreigners Eat in Vietnam
I was looking around in the Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive when I came across an issue of a magazine called “Life in Vietnam.” This was clearly a magazine that…
1960s Thai Shadow Bands and the Burmese Axe Dance
On YouTube I came across some music that Sublime Frequencies put out on a CD a few years ago called “Shadow Music of Thailand.” This is what the Sublime Frequencies…
The Bee Jays and the Trailers at the El Amigo in 1973
In 1973 at the “el amigo nite club” on Kitchener Road in Singapore a band called the Bee Jays performed nightly. With a name like Bee Jays, one can’t help but…
Chen Jinghe and the Historical Document Translation Project at the University of Hue
I was looking around in the Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive when I found quite a few materials that were from an organization called the American Friends of Vietnam (AFV).…
South Vietnam and the Free Chinese World
I was looking at an issue of a kind of magazine/newsletter that the South Vietnamese Embassy in the US used to publish called Viet-Nam Bulletin. In 1969 there was an…
The Siamese Semicoloniamperial Gaze
The idea that Siam/Thailand was never colonized is one that is still expressed a lot in popular discourse but is no longer taken seriously by many academics. The evidence that…
“Dealing with” “the Problem” of Filipinos in Honolulu in 1917
I came across an article that the editor of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin wrote in 1917 about the “appalling” conditions in the “tenement districts” to the west of Nuuanu Stream in…
The Diary of an Infiltrator
Looking around more in the Virtual Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University I came across a short English-language text from 1966 called Diary of an Infiltrator. It is not actually…
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