The South Korean Fall of Saigon
As an historian, I find the end of wars to be fascinating historical moments, because they are times when one world comes to an end and another world has to…
Women at Work in (South) Vietnam
Anne Scahill is an American woman who served in a non-governmental organization in South Vietnam from 1970 to 1973 called the Vietnam Christian Service (VNCS).During that time she took many…
I Am Sitting in a Room and the Lạc Việt Created the Kinh Dịch
“I Am Sitting in a Room” is a very famous piece of experimental music which composer Alvin Lucier created in 1969. What Lucier did was to record himself reciting a…
Kmart Music – the Reason why “the West” will always be the Pioneer in Humanities/Social Sciences Scholarship
I spent several years in Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During that time, I had a routine where I would go into central Taipei early in the…
The An Nam chí nguyên/Annan zhiyuan
A couple of years ago I posted about a book that is essential for understanding Vietnamese history which very few people have read or even know about, the An Nam…
What If Scholarship in South Vietnam. . .
I recently came across a small booklet that the South Vietnamese government published in English in 1973 entitled Vietnamese Studies and Their Relationship to Asian Studies. Written by Nguyễn Khắc…