That Graduate Student. . . S/he’s Coming!!
Whenever I write something for publication, I always think about “that graduate student.”Who is that graduate student?It’s the intelligent and talented person who is going to appear in the future.…
Dismissing China/the Chinese in the Field of Southeast Asian History (in the English-Speaking World)
I have written and talked in the past about how I think that the generation that developed the field of Southeast Asian history in the English-speaking world in the 1960s…
Following the Footnotes
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Phan Văn Hùm, a Vietnamese journalist and intellectual who, among many other achievements, produced a book about the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming in…
The Program for the 12th Engaging With Vietnam Conference
The 12th Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference will be held next week, 24-28 August 2021.To see the conference program, please visit the conference website.
Art Deco Vietnam
The other day, Saigoneer posted some beautiful pictures of a movie theater in Vietnam that was recently built in the Art Deco style.I saw the post just as I was…
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Vietnamese Chicken Manuals from French Indochina
A few years ago I visited a farm in the countryside of Vietnam. The farmer had two types of pigs: he had several Vietnamese pigs, “our pigs” (lợn ta), and…
The Great Vietnamese Wang Yangming Scholar You’ve Never Heard Of
In the summer of 1972, the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa held a conference on the Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar, Wang Yangming (1472–1529).This conference was part of…