I was recently in Sabah, on the island of Borneo, were someone told me that the local name (in Malay) for proboscis monkeys is “blanda” (or “orang blanda”) which means…
Continuing in my effort to bring academic ideas and knowledge to YouTube, I’ve decided to make a series of videos, in collaboration with Phan Lê Hà, that focus on a…
So I visited the History Museum in Hanoi a few weeks ago where they currently have a small (but wonderful) exhibit marking 70 years since the discovery of the first…
I'll be taking a break from posting to this blog until sometime in January. Thank you to everyone for reading and commenting. See you again next year!!
I was reading a review of Keith Taylor’s A History of the Vietnamese that appeared in the journal Sojourn (29.3 [2014]: 738-53) in which an historian argues that Taylor went…
I recently came across a report that the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) prepared during World War II on “Selected Industrial Sites in Indo-China.” In seeing this title, I assumed…
I was looking at a report that the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) compiled during World War II about Filipinos who were collaborating with the Japanese. One of the people…
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One topic about the Vietnamese past that I find is poorly understood is the issue of the “Three Teachings” (Tam giáo) of Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism. I just did a…
It is well known that after the Japanese occupied Southeast Asia in World War II, Indian nationalists formed something known as the “Indian National Army,” a military force that had…