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Hồ Chí Minh, Truman and the “Lost Opportunity” (Part III)

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Post published:March 4, 2015
Post category:Vietnam
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJLix2XSxN0&feature=youtu.be

Hồ Chí Minh, Truman and the “Lost Opportunity” (Part II)

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Post published:February 26, 2015
Post category:Vietnam
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDG3El8MjI8

Hồ Chí Minh, Truman and the “Lost Opportunity” (Part I)

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:February 24, 2015
Post category:Vietnam
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476skwHLcnE&feature=youtu.be This video is the result of a month or so of a lot of work spent trying to learn how to use a DSLR camera, a Zoom h4n audio…

Circus Problems and the Colonizer-Colonized Convergence in Late Colonial Burma

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Post published:February 18, 2015
Post category:Burma
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I recently came across some images from the 1930s that were advertising “giraffe-necked women.” Apparently in the 1930s there were Padaung women from Burma who were put on display at…

Making Traditional Music Cool in Sarawak

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Post published:February 13, 2015
Post category:Sarawak
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Lamenting the loss of tradition is something that you hear all around the world, but there are some places that succeed in keeping the traditional world alive. The way they…

Tạ Chí Đại Trường and Historical Norms

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:February 10, 2015
Post category:Vietnam
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In early 1976, a book by South Vietnamese historian Tạ Chí Đại Trường was the subject of a long critique in the journal, Historical Research (Nghiên cứu lịch sử). The…

Documenting the Destruction of Bronze Drums

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:February 3, 2015
Post category:Vietnam and China
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There are a couple of bronze drums that have been found in the Red River delta that have Chinese characters on them.

One of them records a place name, Huihe zhou/Hồi Hà châu, and the weight of the drum (回河州鼓重兩千百八十二).

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“Same Same But Different” Music in Thailand

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:January 29, 2015
Post category:Southeast Asia Thailand
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I haven’t paid much attention to the Thai music scene for a while, but the other day I was looking around at recent music videos and came across the YouTube…

Theo Chân Trần Quang Đức/Following Trần Quang Đức #2

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:January 20, 2015
Post category:Vietnam YouTube video
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History, Bored Students and Chinese Men Without Pants in Vietnam

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:January 19, 2015
Post category:Vietnam
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Every summer when the college entrance exams are held, the Vietnamese media is filled with articles that lament the fact that students are not interested in history. Then every time…