The COVID-19 Pandemic and Vietnamese Chicken Manuals from French Indochina
A few years ago I visited a farm in the countryside of Vietnam. The farmer had two types of pigs: he had several Vietnamese pigs, “our pigs” (lợn ta), and…
The Great Vietnamese Wang Yangming Scholar You’ve Never Heard Of
In the summer of 1972, the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa held a conference on the Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar, Wang Yangming (1472–1529).This conference was part of…
Trần Trọng Kim and the Vernacularization of Confucian Philosophy
In 1930, a Vietnamese teacher by the name of Trần Trọng Kim published a book called Confucianism (Nho giáo).Printed in four volumes, it covered the history of Confucian philosophers and…
10 Years (+1) of Le Minh Khai
It recently dawned on me that it must be time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Le Minh Khai’s SEAsian History Blog.” Then I checked and realized that I began…
Take a Look at These Images and Ask Yourself. . .
The Google Ngram Viewer shows how many times certain terms appear in digitized printed texts.The image below shows what we see when we input the terms “Srivijiya” and “Sri Vijaya”…
Srivijaya 2.0 (14): If Coedès was This Bad when it Came to Srivijaya. . .
George Cœdès (1886-1969) was a French scholar of the Southeast Asian past who published prolifically, and through his writings, has exerted an enormous influence on the writing of premodern Southeast…
Engaging With Vietnam 12 is Coming!!
The 12th Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference is set to begin in just over a month.All of the pieces are starting to come together, and we’re looking forward…
Srivijaya 2.0 (13): The Ryukyu Letter to Siam that Proves Sanfoqi = Kambuja
On 8 October 1431, the king of Chuzan 中山, one of the principalities that made up the Kingdom of Ryukyu on the island of Okinawa, sent a letter to the…
The Female Deity Worshipped by the Kings of Angkor
Did you know that Angkorian kings used to regularly travel to the lower Mekong region to worship a female deity?No, you didn’t know that. I know you didn’t.But don’t feel…
Premodern Southeast Asian Imperialism, Decolonizing Historical Knowledge, and the Liberal Bias in Western Historical Scholarship
In researching about “Srivijaya” recently, I have been reading about Southeast Asian history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and I’ve come to realize something that I had not thought…
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