Daw Pyu the Mac Phsu Balm Queen
You may have heard of the two “Tiger Balm Kings” (Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par) that is, the two ethnic Chinese from Burma who went on to create…
The King of Seasonings in 1950s Thailand
I came across this advertisement for Aji-No-Moto brand monosodium glutamate (MSG) from a Chinese-language newspaper from Thailand in the 1950s. It is called “The King of Seasonings” and the advertisement…
What is Historical Scholarship in Vietnam Integrating With?
So the Fourth International Conference on Vietnamese Studies is taking place at the moment in Hanoi (or perhaps just coming to an end right about now). The theme of the…
Đông Sơn Headhunters
A couple of weeks ago I met someone who told me about Bác sĩ Kiều Quang Chẩn and said that she had heard him give an interesting talk in California…
Cù Lao Hainan and Han-Việt Expansion
I was looking at collection of maps called Sketched Maps of the Southern and Northern Regions (Nam Bắc kỳ hội đồ 南北圻繪圖) that I’m guessing dates from the late nineteenth…
Subalterns Speaking in Colonial Burma
One form of history that is fascinating to read but a challenge to research is what is often referred to now as subaltern history or “history from below.” This is…
Vietnamese Learning for the Nation and Western Learning for Internationalization
In the late nineteenth century the Qing Dynasty official, Zhang Zhidong, coined a phrase that became very famous – “Chinese learning for substance and Western learning for function” (中學為體，西學為用 Zhongxue…
The Evils of Quốc Ngữ # 7
A long time ago I criticized the scholars who translated the Đồng Khánh địa dư chí into Vietnamese (here), because in that work the people whom we would today refer…
Georges Coedès and the Sanskrit Inscriptions of Cambodia
I recently read a fabulous article by Alexis Sanderson, entitled “The Śaiva Religion among the Khmers (Part I)” in the Bulletin de l’Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient 90-91 (2003): 349-462. In this…
Seo Ho-su’s Criticism of the King of Annam
As part of the diplomatic negotiations that took place after the Qing were defeated by the Tây Sơn, the Qing emperor, Qianlong, agreed to recognize Quang Trung as the “King…
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