The Destructive Divide in Vietnamese Academia
There was a brief article in VnExpress the other day called “What can you do if you study Hán Nôm?” “Hán” is the same as what other people call “classical…
The Politicization of Archaeology in 1960s North Vietnam
Archaeology garners a lot of respect in Vietnam. It is seen as being much more “scientific” (khoa học) than a field like history, as historical texts thought to be unreliable,…
What’s so “Colonial” about Colonial-Era Scholarship?
I came across an article that Đào Duy Anh published in 1954 in the journal Văn Sử Địa. In this article, Đào Duy Anh argues against the ideas of European…