The An Nam chí nguyên/Annan zhiyuan
A couple of years ago I posted about a book that is essential for understanding Vietnamese history which very few people have read or even know about, the An Nam…
What If Scholarship in South Vietnam. . .
I recently came across a small booklet that the South Vietnamese government published in English in 1973 entitled Vietnamese Studies and Their Relationship to Asian Studies. Written by Nguyễn Khắc…
An EDM Festival Review of Historical Scholarship on the Vietnam War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1IsXP-__cA&feature=youtu.be The following works are referenced in this video: K. W. Taylor, “How I Began to Teach about the Vietnam War,” Michigan Quarterly Review vol. 43, no. 4 (2004): 637–647.…
A “Bed-In” Review of “Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnUqp3E6KBM Inspired by the “Bed-In for Peace” that John Lennon and Yoko Ono held in 1969, this is a “Bed-In” review of the book Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United…
Crossing Boundaries in 1930s-1940s Sarawak and England
The digitization of archival materials, newspapers, etc., is fantastic for researchers, but I also find it a bit frightening as there is undoubtedly information that is now freely available that…
Deconstructing the Trope of the “Equivalent Though Different” Role of Women in Traditional Southeast Asia
I recently started reading a new survey of Southeast Asian history by a well-known historian when I was surprised to come across this paragraph about women in traditional Southeast Asia…
The Mystery of the British License to Work Islands in. . . that Sea
I wrote below about some materials that I came across in British Colonial Office records regarding some British citizens who sought a license to lease some islands in the East/North…
Remixing the Past: The Peopling of Asia (According to Kim Định)
In is 1970 work, Việt Lý Tố Nguyên, Lương Kim Định presented an outline of his understanding of the early history of East Asia. The main point that Kim Định…
“The Annam Maiden” and a Chinese Call for Asian Unity in 1943
I recently came across a poem in Chinese that was written by Yan Jieren 嚴杰人 in 1943 called “The Annam Maiden” (Annan Nulang 安南女郎). Yan Jieren was a writer and…
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