The Lạc Việt – The Ancestors of BOTH the Việt AND the Zhuang?
I recently co-wrote an article with my colleague, anthropologist Đinh Hồng Hải, on the “Lạc Việt” (Chn., Luoyue).This is a name that appears in ancient Chinese texts where it refers…
Why We Know So Little About Premodern Vietnamese Popular Religion
In the previous post I praised a recent article by Cuong Mai on premodern Vietnamese popular religion. What I particularly liked about it is the way that Cuong identified and…
A Really Great Article on (Premodern) Vietnamese Religion
I just read a really good article. It is entitled “The Karma of Love: Buddhist Karmic Discourses in Confucian and Daoist Voices in Vietnamese Tales of the Marvelous and Uncanny”…
Vietnam at the Vanguard & the New Contexts for Knowledge Production about Vietnam
“Vietnam at the Vanguard.”Yes, we know what comes to your mind when you hear those words.You think of that legendary night.October 25, 1962.The Village Vanguard in Manhattan was packed with…
On the Wings of Eagles with Phan Lê Hà and Ngô Hồng Quang
In 2016, we invited multi-instrumentalist Ngô Hồng Quang to perform at the 8th Engaging With Vietnam conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.That encounter led to a collaboration between Ngô Hồng Quang and…
That Graduate Student. . . S/he’s Coming!!
Whenever I write something for publication, I always think about “that graduate student.”Who is that graduate student?It’s the intelligent and talented person who is going to appear in the future.…
Dismissing China/the Chinese in the Field of Southeast Asian History (in the English-Speaking World)
I have written and talked in the past about how I think that the generation that developed the field of Southeast Asian history in the English-speaking world in the 1960s…
Following the Footnotes
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Phan Văn Hùm, a Vietnamese journalist and intellectual who, among many other achievements, produced a book about the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming in…
The Program for the 12th Engaging With Vietnam Conference
The 12th Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference will be held next week, 24-28 August 2021.To see the conference program, please visit the conference website.
Art Deco Vietnam
The other day, Saigoneer posted some beautiful pictures of a movie theater in Vietnam that was recently built in the Art Deco style.I saw the post just as I was…
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