The “Missing Link” of Modern Conservativism in the Du học báo
I recently read a fascinating article by Nguyễn Nam about a Vietnamese journal that I had never heard of before, the Du học báo 遊學報 (Bulletin Bimensuel de la Société…
Trần Quốc Vượng and Vietnam’s Southeast Asian Cultural Foundation
I was reading a book that contains essays that the late Vietnamese scholar, Trần Quốc Vượng, wrote in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the essays is on the Vietnamese…
Identifying Betty Boop and Horseface after World War II in Southeast Asia
After World War II came to an end in Southeast Asia, the Allies tried to bring to trial Japanese who had committed war crimes there. They were particularly concerned with…
The Yao/Dao, the Việt and the Impossibility of Thoát Trung (Escaping from China)
I spent some time today looking through a journal that was published in Hanoi in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries called Revue Indo-Chinoise. This was a time when the French…
The Enchantment of 1948 Sarawak
In the early twentieth century, German sociologist Max Weber noted that one characteristic of modern societies was an increasing “disenchantment of the world.” By “disenchantment,” Weber meant that in modern…
The Daoist/ Mường View of the Spirit of Mount Tản Viên
[I haven’t written for a while, so I don’t feel like my thoughts below are expressed very clearly in this post, but I think the topic is an important one,…
Tạ Đức vs. Hà Văn Thùy and the Lack of a Professional Alternative
Summer is here. It is time for me to take a break from posting to this blog. So I will write this one last blog entry and then will take…
Legrand de la Liraye and the Missing Word for Nation in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam
I mentioned in the post below that in the 1860s a Frenchman by the name of Théophile Marie Legrand de la Liraye published a book called Notes historiques sur la…
Legrand de la Liraye’s 1865 History of the Annamite People
I’ve recently been reading a book that Théophile Marie Legrand de la Liraye published in (I think) 1865 called Notes historiques sur la nation annamite (Historical Notes on the Annamite…
Premodern Mapmakers and the Question of Sovereignty
I’m really getting tired of seeing people hold up premodern maps as documents that they believe can demonstrate sovereignty. They don’t, and therefore if people want to demonstrate an historical…
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