Long-Form Immersive Literacy is Coming to an End
The other day, I went into a bookstore. There was a section on “classics,” which was essentially a section of works of nineteenth and twentieth century literature.I saw volume after…
The Three Teachings Exam in Lý Dynasty Vietnam was NOT about the Three Teachings
[I wrote this a year ago, but it got lost when I moved to a new server, so I am posting it again.]There is a brief record in the main…
Old Harbor in the Ming shilu
For the past five years, I have been arguing that a placename that appears in Chinese historical sources, Sanfoqi, was a reference to Cambodia, rather than to a proposed polity…
Sanfoqi, Old Harbor and the Baolin Polity in the Rekidai Hōan
For the past five years, I have been putting forth the argument that a Chinese place name, Sanfoqi, that scholars believe referred to a polity on Sumatra called “Srivijaya” was…
Sanfoqi in the Ming shilu
Many years ago now, in the 1990s, historian Geoff Wade translated the information about Southeast Asia in the Ming shilu (Veritable Records of the Ming), and then in the 2000s…
What Students are Learning but Many Profs Perhaps Still Aren’t
A few years ago, I used to teach a session on “writing a literature review” for a general “methods” course that was offered to incoming graduate students in various humanities…
What is Up with Musicians Looking at Sheet Music?!!
When I was a teenager, I wanted to become a musician. I didn’t practice enough to get good at anything, but in the process, I saw tons of musicians perform,…
More on “History is Toast” – An Explanation
I have been arguing that History cannot survive AI, and some people have been offering contending views, such as the idea that AI can’t do certain things that certain historians…
AHA’s “Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education”
The American Historical Association has issued some “Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education.”If you have read any of my posts on the future (or what I see as…
I Have Never Read “Orientalism”. . . But LLMs Can
I have been thinking about books and reading as we enter the AI/LLM age.There are a couple of books that were hugely influential when I was a graduate student in…