“Same Same But Different” Music in Thailand
I haven’t paid much attention to the Thai music scene for a while, but the other day I was looking around at recent music videos and came across the YouTube…
Theo Chân Trần Quang Đức/Following Trần Quang Đức #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxuKdP5u1-Y
History, Bored Students and Chinese Men Without Pants in Vietnam
Every summer when the college entrance exams are held, the Vietnamese media is filled with articles that lament the fact that students are not interested in history. Then every time…
Theo Chân Trần Quang Đức/Following Trần Quang Đức #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpij0vMiulI
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about…
Dutchmen, Forest Men, and the (Blurry) Line Between Western and Indigenous Knowledge
I was recently in Sabah, on the island of Borneo, were someone told me that the local name (in Malay) for proboscis monkeys is “blanda” (or “orang blanda”) which means…
Following Trần Quang Đức
Continuing in my effort to bring academic ideas and knowledge to YouTube, I’ve decided to make a series of videos, in collaboration with Phan Lê Hà, that focus on a…
Sexual Intercourse, Water Buffalos, Elephants, Daggers and Đông Sơn Culture
So I visited the History Museum in Hanoi a few weeks ago where they currently have a small (but wonderful) exhibit marking 70 years since the discovery of the first…