Patriotism and History in Malaysia and Hong Kong
There have been a couple of related news events recently that are quite interesting. A few days ago media in Malaysia reported that a new history curriculum is being developed…
Paradigm Shifts in Vietnamese History
The term “paradigm shift” is often used by academics. It is a term that was created by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. While the…
The Problem of the Term “Việt” In a National History
Many people today write histories of nations. They create a narrative about the origins of a nation and then follow its development through time. That is one way to write…
Chen Fu’s Visit to Đại Việt in 1293
I mentioned in the post below about the various Lý Công Uẩn films that there is an account that a Chinese envoy who visited Đại Việt in 1293 CE wrote.…
Lý Công Uẩn in Film and TV
There were several films and TV series made recently about Lý Công Uẩn. They were meant to coincide with the 1,000-year anniversary of Thăng Long/Hà Nội, but some were not…
Hồ Chí Minh and Wikipedia
Following on the entry below, I came across a reference to a kind of search engine called WolframAlpha. Actually, the folks behind this project say that WolframAlpha is not a…
Hồ Chí Minh Said What???
There are many books in English about Vietnam that claim that in 1946 Hồ Chí Minh stated that “I prefer to sniff French shit for five years than eat Chinese…
A “Word Cloud” of This Blog
I just tried out "Wordle" (http://www.wordle.net/). It's a "toy" which creates "word clouds" of text. You input the text (or a link to a web page) and the program creates…
Forging Maps to “Prove” Sovereignty in Vietnam
The Voice of Vietnam just published an article (here) by PGS.TS. Phạm Thị Thùy Vinh in which she introduces a nineteenth century text that she claims contains a map which…
Nationalist Victim Narratives in China and Vietnam
Recently there have been anti-Japan demonstrations in China, and anti-China demonstrations in Vietnam. These demonstrations in both instances are related to issues about certain uninhabited islands (“rocks in the sea”…
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