Hồ Chí Minh, Truman and the “Lost Opportunity” (Part II)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDG3El8MjI8
Hồ Chí Minh, Truman and the “Lost Opportunity” (Part I)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476skwHLcnE&feature=youtu.be This video is the result of a month or so of a lot of work spent trying to learn how to use a DSLR camera, a Zoom h4n audio…
Circus Problems and the Colonizer-Colonized Convergence in Late Colonial Burma
I recently came across some images from the 1930s that were advertising “giraffe-necked women.” Apparently in the 1930s there were Padaung women from Burma who were put on display at…
Making Traditional Music Cool in Sarawak
Lamenting the loss of tradition is something that you hear all around the world, but there are some places that succeed in keeping the traditional world alive. The way they…
Tạ Chí Đại Trường and Historical Norms
In early 1976, a book by South Vietnamese historian Tạ Chí Đại Trường was the subject of a long critique in the journal, Historical Research (Nghiên cứu lịch sử). The…
Documenting the Destruction of Bronze Drums
There are a couple of bronze drums that have been found in the Red River delta that have Chinese characters on them.
One of them records a place name, Huihe zhou/Hồi Hà châu, and the weight of the drum (回河州鼓重兩千百八十二).