Going on a Mission
Oh, all this talk about the evils of area studies has made me nostalgic for the past. I'm going on a mission for a bit and won't be updating this…
Is the End of Area Studies Finally Here?
I grew up in Vermont near a small liberal arts college, Middlebury College. Every summer the campus would transform, as the college would hold its “language schools” where students would…
The Seventeenth-Century Rise of Hà Tiên and Singora
One of the first papers I ever published was called “Thoughts on a Chinese Diaspora: The Case of the Mạcs of Hà Tien” (2000). I wrote it as a final…
James A. Anderson’s “The Dong World”: An AI Reading
A while ago I became aware that historian James A. Anderson has published a new book entitled The Dong World and Imperial China’s Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State…
They’re Coming!!
When I was working in the US, I never got an email from a predatory/scam journal.Then I went to work at a university in Southeast Asia, and I immediately started…
You Don’t Think AI is a Threat, but You are Also Using the Wrong Model
I see a lot of academics brushing off AI, thinking that it’s not a threat. How do they reach that conclusion?As far as I can tell, in many cases they…
Professors Will be Eliminated by Progressive Logic
The other day an opinion piece from The Conversation popped up in my news feed with the title, “Some unis are moving away from in-person lectures. Here’s why that’s not…
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…
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