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…
Behind Each Great French Scholar in Indochina. . .
I have long known that the Yale University Library holds materials from the private collection of French scholar Maurice Durand, however I just realized today that some of these materials…
Vietnamese, Japanese, Formosan Coolies and the U.S.S. Pargo in the Paracel Islands in World War II
Given that things are heating up now that the PRC is attempting to set up an oil rig in an area of the sea that is claimed by Vietnam, I…
Darkness and Javanese Soldiers in Australia during World War II
On 5 September 1945 the acting premier of New South Wales, J. M. Baddeley, sent a letter to the prime minister of the Commonwealth of Australia to report about complaints…
Shit People Say About [Country Name] History – or, History in the Age of YouTube
A decade or so ago, whenever I was preparing to teach a class in a course that I had already taught a few times, I would always spend time on…
Indochinese Subaltern Cosmopolitanism
In many histories, members of the elite are usually portrayed as the people who brought change to society. In the case of Vietnam, for instance, intellectuals like Phan Bội Châu…
Banning Women in Bondage and Dragon Seed in French Indochina
I found a list of American movies that were banned in French Indochina in 1949-1951. It’s interesting to see the kinds of things that the colonial censors did not want…
Coca-Cola by the People and for the People in the Philippines
Today I came across an educational film that the Coca-Cola Company made in 1955 about Coca-Cola in the Philippines. The video is called “Pearl of the Orient.” As the video…
“Straightening Out” Southeast Asia in the 1960s
In the 1960s, modernization theory was very popular. Essentially what modernization theory argued is that all societies go through similar processes in becoming “modern,” and that it is therefore possible…
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