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This Should Be The Revision Age!!

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:December 7, 2023
Post category:Vietnamese Historical Scholarship Western Scholarship on Vietnam
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One point that I keep bringing up, but I don’t find it getting recognized, is the fact that the capabilities that we now have when we conduct research in the…

Popular Confucianism/Culture in Premodern Vietnam

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:December 6, 2023
Post category:Vietnamese Historical Scholarship
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If there is one topic in Vietnamese history that I think people today have the hardest time understanding it is the topic of “Confucianism.”Why is that?Well, it’s a long story,…

History in the AI Age: A Self-Reflection

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:December 3, 2023
Post category:AI & History AI Reading Asian history Asian Studies Digital Southeast Asia
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In the spring of 1994, during my first year of graduate school, I took a seminar on Chinese Intellectual History. In that seminar, in addition to weekly readings and discussions,…

The East Asian Context of Lý Dynasty Buddhism

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:November 19, 2023
Post category:Ly and Tran Dynasties
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I recently read a chapter by the late historian John K. Whitmore entitled “Building a Buddhist Monarchy in Đai Viêt: Temples and Texts under Lý Nhân-tông (r. 1072–1127)” and it…

Tianxia/Thiên Hạ in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:November 7, 2023
Post category:Uncategorized
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A few years ago, I was invited to write a paper on the concept of “Tianxia” (Thiên Hạ) in nineteenth-century Vietnam, and that paper has now been published.The paper is…

The Confucian Brain Drain in Ming Occupied Vietnam

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:November 5, 2023
Post category:Ly and Tran Dynasties
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I have been writing about the established narrative in English-language scholarship on premodern Vietnam which sees the Lý and Trần dynasty periods as a time when Confucianism played a limited…

Hồ Quý Ly’s Confucianism from an East Asian Perspective

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:November 2, 2023
Post category:Ly and Tran Dynasties
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If you read the extant scholarship on premodern Vietnam, you will discover that historians have presented a story about the past which argues that there is very little evidence of…

Pale Scholars in Trần Dynasty Vietnam

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:October 26, 2023
Post category:Ly and Tran Dynasties
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In the extant English-language scholarship on Vietnam, most scholars argue that there was little presence of Confucianism during the period of the Lý Dynasty (1009-1225) and that it was only…

Confucianism and Buddhism in Premodern Vietnam

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:October 24, 2023
Post category:Ly and Tran Dynasties
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I find that when it comes to talking about the religions/teachings of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism in Vietnamese history, many people have a difficult time understanding how they were related.The…

Lý Công Uẩn’s “Superstitious” Beliefs

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:October 21, 2023
Post category:Ly and Tran Dynasties
Post comments:4 Comments

As I mentioned in the previous post, in English-language scholarship on premodern Vietnamese history, the Lý Dynasty (1009-1225) is usually described as not being Confucian.In fact, many historians writing in…