Taking a Break
I'll be taking a break from posting to this blog until sometime in January. Thank you to everyone for reading and commenting. See you again next year!!
The Idea of a Vietnamese Pantheon
I was reading a review of Keith Taylor’s A History of the Vietnamese that appeared in the journal Sojourn (29.3 [2014]: 738-53) in which an historian argues that Taylor went…
Bombing Distilleries in World War II Indochina
I recently came across a report that the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) prepared during World War II on “Selected Industrial Sites in Indo-China.” In seeing this title, I assumed…
Dr. Francisco Africa and the Burmese Mission in WW II Southeast Asia
I was looking at a report that the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) compiled during World War II about Filipinos who were collaborating with the Japanese. One of the people…
Choosing Culture in Southeast Asia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTBaqAG54hM&feature=youtu.be
The Three Teachings (Tam Giáo) in Vietnam
One topic about the Vietnamese past that I find is poorly understood is the issue of the “Three Teachings” (Tam giáo) of Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism. I just did a…
Jemadar Guptha, Loyal to the Empire and Beaten by the Japanese in World War II Sarawak
It is well known that after the Japanese occupied Southeast Asia in World War II, Indian nationalists formed something known as the “Indian National Army,” a military force that had…
The Dayang Muda “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in WWII Bombay
In looking around in the materials digitized by the Australian National Archives I came across a file called “Landing Permits Dayang Muda of Sarawak.” Sarawak, on the island of Borneo,…