Guo Shoujing and China’s Indisputable Sovereignty over the Korean Peninsula
So I have long avoided the issue of “those rocks in the sea” because I’ve long felt that the things that people have been saying are just too idiotic to…
Chen Jinghe’s Notes on the Gia Định thành thông chí
Not long after the French obtained control over the area around Saigon, Louis Gabriel Galderic Aubaret published a French “translation” of an early-nineteenth-century gazetteer of the region, Trịnh Hoài Đức’s…
Representing Minorities in North Vietnam
These are some images from the early 1960s from the North Vietnamese magazine Viet Nam. The above pictures seem to represent the happy and idyllic traditional lifestyle of minority peoples.…
Masaharu Homma and José Laurel
Today I came across some documents from the office of José Laurel when he was “commissioner” of the Philippines in 1942. In 1942 the Philippines had just come under Japanese…
Competing Representations of the Nation in 1970s Vietnam
In the 20th century, the governments of many countries produced glossy magazines in foreign languages which were used to promote the nation’s image overseas. Recently I was looking at two…
Dương Bá Trác on the Origins of the Vietnamese Race
Scientists have long noted that there is no biological basis for race. Races of human beings do not actually exist. They are social constructs. People create different categories of human…
Noraini and Choo are Smarter than You
I came across these advertisements for The Chartered Bank in a magazine called Malaysia from the early 1970s. I find the logic that these advertisements use to communicate with the…
An Examination of the Name Giao Chỉ/Jiaozhi
Chen Jinghe/Trần Kinh Hòa was an historian who was born in 1917 in the Japanese colony of Taiwan. However, he went to school, from elementary to university, in Japan. As…
Coercing the Natives in 1870s Sarawak
Kuching, Sarawak is a lovely place. Clean and with a relaxing atmosphere, it is difficult to imagine it as a place of suffering. However, for many of its early years…
The Emotional Appeal of Lương Kim Định
On 14 July there was apparently a seminar in Hanoi to honor the work of philosopher Lương Kim Định on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of his death. Born…
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