Việt Origins (Nguồn gốc người Việt) – 2021 Version
The topic of Việt origins is one that many people find interesting. However, it is a topic that requires that one constantly update one’s knowledge.Over the past 10 years, a…
The Internet, Wokeism, and Vietnamese Confucian Scholars in the 1920s
For the past two decades, I have been working in higher education and observing how the Internet, and the digital revolution more generally, has transformed my profession (History).While there have…
Honoring the Emperor in the (Original) Gia Định Báo
“Gia Định báo” is the name of what many people consider to be the first Vietnamese newspaper. It was first published in 1865 in Vietnamese using the Latin script.“Gia Định”…
Le Minh Khai Exposed!!!
Well, no, that’s not what this post is actually about.Instead, it’s just that I recently published a new article in which I “expose” some of what I think about academia,…
Nhị Độ Mai, or why we know so little about Late Imperial Vietnamese Popular Culture
Over the past couple of months, I have spent some time exploring Vietnamese materials that the National Library of France has digitized. As I have done so, I have asked…