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    Graveyards and the Han Dynasty’s Riverine Empire in Vietnam

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 28, 2020
    • Post category:Beyond Han and Viet
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    I’ve been reading a recent (2017) PhD dissertation from China that is on Han tombs in Vietnam. The dissertation is entitled “Archaeological Research on Han Tombs in Vietnam” (越南境内漢墓的考古研究) and…

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    Hats, Sandals and Ordering Society in Han Dynasty Vietnam

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 24, 2020
    • Post category:Beyond Han and Viet
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    In the first century AD there were a couple of Han Dynasty officials who reportedly tried to change certain cultural practices of some people in the area of what is…

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    Seeing “Vietnamese” and “Chinese” in a Zero-Sum Game

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 20, 2020
    • Post category:Beyond Han and Viet
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    In the early twentieth century, French scholar Henri Maspero came up with an undocumented theory about Han migration into the Red River delta in the first century AD (view the…

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    Han Chinese Refugees in the Red River Delta: The Persistence of a Colonial Myth

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 17, 2020
    • Post category:Beyond Han and Viet
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    Oh no! I did it again. While reading a work on Vietnamese history, I asked myself, “How does this author know that?” And once again that question set me off…

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    FFVN 02: The Migration Problem

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 14, 2020
    • Post category:Far From Vietnam
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    The way that many of us view the past today is the product of scholaship that has been produced in the post-colonial era, and that has in some cases specifically…

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    An “Open Letter” to Mr. Hà Văn Thùy

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 12, 2020
    • Post category:Uncategorized
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    When I started this blog 10 years ago, one of the first posts I wrote was a critique of an article on Vietnamese prehistory I found on the BBC Vietnamese…

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    FFVN 01: Race and Vietnam’s Knowledge Divide

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 7, 2020
    • Post category:Far From Vietnam
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    Before we can examine the latest information on Vietnamese prehistory, we have to address a couple of important issues: “race” and the “knowledge divide.”The term “race” can be found in…

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    Far From Vietnam: Series Introduction

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 7, 2020
    • Post category:Far From Vietnam
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    I recently published an article that dealt with the topic of the prehistory of the area of what is today Vietnam. The articled is entitled “The Centrality of ‘Fringe History’:…

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    Rethinking Nguyễn Đàng Trong (Cochinchina, Nam Hà)

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 5, 2020
    • Post category:Nguyễn Đàng Trong
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    I recently published a paper entitled “Taxation and Military Conscription in Early Modern Vietnam: Nguyễn Đàng Trong in Comparative Perspective.”While taxation and military conscription might not sound all that exciting,…

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    The Story of Champaca Flowers

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:March 8, 2020
    • Post category:Vietnamese Poetry 4.0
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    This latest installent of “Vietnamese Poetry 4.0” is of a poem by Phan Lê Hà entitled “Câu Chuyện Hoa Ngọc Lan/The Story of Champaca Flowers.”To find out what this poem…

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