Legrand de la Liraye and the Missing Word for Nation in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam
I mentioned in the post below that in the 1860s a Frenchman by the name of Théophile Marie Legrand de la Liraye published a book called Notes historiques sur la…
Legrand de la Liraye’s 1865 History of the Annamite People
I’ve recently been reading a book that Théophile Marie Legrand de la Liraye published in (I think) 1865 called Notes historiques sur la nation annamite (Historical Notes on the Annamite…
Premodern Mapmakers and the Question of Sovereignty
I’m really getting tired of seeing people hold up premodern maps as documents that they believe can demonstrate sovereignty. They don’t, and therefore if people want to demonstrate an historical…
Getting High (on Music) at the Pink Pussycat in 1970s Singapore
On 18 November 1973, The Straits Times ran an article on its front page announcing that the Liquor Licensing Board was cancelling the liquor licenses for 12 discotheques and nightclubs…
Ethno-Symbolism and the Vietnamese Nation
The study of nations and nationalism is a massive and complex field of study, but it’s possible to point to three main approaches that have been employed in the study…
Trưng Trắc’s Husband Thi [Sách]
I read an article that South Vietnamese historian Nguyễn Phương wrote in the 1960s on the Trưng sisters. I had never looked closely at the sources of information for their…
Beautiful Saigon, Cambodian Girls and Cathay Pacific Airlines
There is a very famous Vietnamese song from the 1960s written by Y Vân called “Saigon is Beautiful” (Sài Gòn đẹp lắm). I remember being in Bangkok a few years…
Orientalism and Postage Stamps in French Indochina
A Vietnamese translation of Edward Said’s Orientalism has apparently just been published. That book became very influential after it first appeared in 1978, becoming a foundational text for the field…
Where History and Sovereignty Intersect
For years I’ve been avoiding the topic of the islands in the Southeast Asian Sea, in part because I’ve been turned off by the way that many people have approached…
The Dog of the Paracels
The other day I came across some materials in the National Archives of Australia that talked about an American submarine attack on Japanese forces on Woody Island in the Paracels…
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