Global Vietnam Book Series and Journal
This year, Phan Lê Hà and I, with the support of a wonderful team of associate series editors, editorial board members and a series editorial assistant, launched a new book…
The Great Dispersal: Academia Today
I always enjoy looking around me and trying to get a sense of what is happening in my profession. I’m an historian of Southeast Asian history, but I also have…
This Should Be The Revision Age!!
One point that I keep bringing up, but I don’t find it getting recognized, is the fact that the capabilities that we now have when we conduct research in the…
Popular Confucianism/Culture in Premodern Vietnam
If there is one topic in Vietnamese history that I think people today have the hardest time understanding it is the topic of “Confucianism.”Why is that?Well, it’s a long story,…
History in the AI Age: A Self-Reflection
In the spring of 1994, during my first year of graduate school, I took a seminar on Chinese Intellectual History. In that seminar, in addition to weekly readings and discussions,…