The Two Joan of Arcs of Việt Nam
I visited the Vietnamese language page of Radio France International and came across an article on the Trưng sisters. It was nationalistic, and like most nationalistic writings, it projected the…
Hoàng Cao Khải and Unilineal Evolution
A few months ago I wrote (here) about how we can see signs of Social Darwinist ideas in the Mirror of Southern History (Gương sử Nam), a 1910 work by…
Before Iban and Việt
I was reading Robert Pringle’s 1970 work, Rajahs and Rebels: The Ibans of Sarawak under Brook Rule, 1841-1941 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) recently, and found some interesting information there about…
Choosing an Appropriate Form of Modernity for Siam in the Fourth Reign
In many (nationalist) renderings of modern Thai history, the two Chakri kings, Mongkut and Chulalongkorn, loom large as figures who are credited with almost single-handedly saving Siam/Thailand from colonization and modernizing…
Visiting Democratic Kampuchea in November 1977
Someone told me recently that the archival materials that Chinese have on the Khmer Rouge will remain classified for 50 years. So we still have a couple of decades or…
Equal Rights to Makeup in 1930s Vietnam
I came across this nice image in an early issue of the journal Phong Hóa. A wife is surprised to see her husbands powdering his face, and he responds that…
August 1966
I was looking at an August 1966 issue of the magazine China Reconstructs. The first two articles in that issue dealt with Vietnam, and were entitled as follows: “China’s aid…
The Superficiality of Scholarship on Premodern Southeast Asian History
I got really depressed this weekend listening to a “senior scholar” in the field of premodern Southeast Asian history give a talk. The speaker is very well published, and has…
Text Mining the Đại Việt Sử Ký Toàn Thư
There is an emerging “field” in places like North America and Europe that people are calling the “Digital Humanities.” People who work in this field are employing digital tools to…
Chen Jinghe’s 1950 Study of Kẻ
“Kẻ” is a Vietnamese word which many scholars have attempted to explain. I have yet to hear a convincing explanation. In this post here I am going to provide a…
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