Taking a Break
The holiday season is fast approaching. . . so it's time for me to find a place to hide for a while. . . I'll start posting again in January.…
More “Guardian Gals” from 1950s Burma
Following up on this post (here), here are some more of M. Tin Aye's “studies in Burmese feminine beauty.” Pictures like these only appear on the covers of The Guardian…
(Some) Vietnamese History Is Definitely Not Dead Yet. . .
So I know that some people get upset by some of the criticisms that I make in this blog (such as declaring that Vietnamese historical scholarship is dead). However, I…
“Administration” in the Red River Delta During the Millennium of “Chinese” Rule
I have often read accounts that say that after the Han Dynasty incorporated the area of the Red River Delta into its empire, the “Chinese” set up an “administration” in…
The “Guardian Gals” of 1950s Burma
Earlier this year I wrote an entry (here) about a magazine from Malaysia called Malaysian Panorama which had pictures of beautiful women on its cover, but the content of the…
UNESCO, Hùng Kings, and the Benefits of Being Vague
So UNESCO just placed the worship of the Hùng Kings on its “List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” News of this announcement is spreading quickly, and it’s already…
Wise Words from Outsourced Spam Writers
Ok, to take a break (just this once) from being “serious,” I just noticed that this blog has a “spam” folder, and that it has some messages in it. I…
What Happened to the Đông Sơn Headhunters?
Not long ago I wrote (here) about an article by Bác sĩ Kiều Quang Chẩn in which he argues that the custom of headhunting probably existed in the Red River…
Digitizing the Historical Geography of Vietnam with GIS
One digital humanities project that I would love to see take place would be the creation of a web page that would enable people to interactively examine the extensive amount…
What do Đông Sơn Bronze Drums have to do with the Việt?
Đông Sơn bronze drums are beautiful artifacts that attest to the sophistication of the people who made them, but how were those people related to the people who eventually came to refer to themselves as the Việt?
I was thinking about this question while reading an entry in Lê Tắc’s fourteenth-century Brief Treatise on An Nam (An Nam chí lược) about the “Lạo Tử” (獠子).
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