Ngô Thì Sĩ’s Logical Thinking and the Historical Agency of Southeast Asian Women
The more I read the comments that eighteenth-century scholar Ngô Thì Sĩ made about the Việt historical record the more I like this guy. Ngô Thì Sĩ did exactly what…
Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ Eloped??
There is a very famous story in the fifteenth-century collection of tales, the Arrayed Tales of Selected Oddities from South of the Passes (Lĩnh Nam chích quái liệt truyện), about…
Vụ Tiên and Âu Cơ are Not Names, or How the Modern Vietnamese Language Distorts Vietnam’s Written Heritage
There is one name that I’ve never been sure how to translate. It appears at the beginning of the fifteenth-century Việt history, the Complete Book of the Historical Records of…
The Problem of “Either-Or-but-not-Why” in Vietnamese History
After writing the post below about Ngô Thì Sĩ’s appraisal of Triệu Đà/Zhao Tuo, I came across a Wikipedia page in Vietnamese on the topic of “the problem of the…
Ngô Thì Sĩ’s Demotion of Triệu Đà/Zhao Tuo
I’ve been reading a text that was complied in the second half of the eighteenth century by Ngô Thì Sĩ (1726-1780). It is called the Former Compilation of the Historical…
Giặc Bắc đến xâm lược!: Translations and Exclamation Points
In the post below, I wrote about some information in an inscription that was inscribed on a bell at a Daoist temple in the Red River Delta, the Thông Thánh…