I’ve been reading a recent (2017) PhD dissertation from China that is on Han tombs in Vietnam. The dissertation is entitled “Archaeological Research on Han Tombs in Vietnam” (越南境内漢墓的考古研究) and…
In the first century AD there were a couple of Han Dynasty officials who reportedly tried to change certain cultural practices of some people in the area of what is…
In the early twentieth century, French scholar Henri Maspero came up with an undocumented theory about Han migration into the Red River delta in the first century AD (view the…
Oh no! I did it again. While reading a work on Vietnamese history, I asked myself, “How does this author know that?” And once again that question set me off…
The way that many of us view the past today is the product of scholaship that has been produced in the post-colonial era, and that has in some cases specifically…
When I started this blog 10 years ago, one of the first posts I wrote was a critique of an article on Vietnamese prehistory I found on the BBC Vietnamese…
Before we can examine the latest information on Vietnamese prehistory, we have to address a couple of important issues: “race” and the “knowledge divide.”The term “race” can be found in…
I recently published an article that dealt with the topic of the prehistory of the area of what is today Vietnam. The articled is entitled “The Centrality of ‘Fringe History’:…
I recently published a paper entitled “Taxation and Military Conscription in Early Modern Vietnam: Nguyễn Đàng Trong in Comparative Perspective.”While taxation and military conscription might not sound all that exciting,…
This latest installent of “Vietnamese Poetry 4.0” is of a poem by Phan Lê Hà entitled “Câu Chuyện Hoa Ngọc Lan/The Story of Champaca Flowers.”To find out what this poem…