I Am Sitting in a Room and the Lạc Việt Created the Kinh Dịch
“I Am Sitting in a Room” is a very famous piece of experimental music which composer Alvin Lucier created in 1969. What Lucier did was to record himself reciting a…
Kmart Music – the Reason why “the West” will always be the Pioneer in Humanities/Social Sciences Scholarship
I spent several years in Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During that time, I had a routine where I would go into central Taipei early in the…
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…
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