Mud on Our Wheels in Cambodia
Several years ago I spent a few years studying Khmer. I eventually started to do some research in Khmer, but then I got distracted by other things. A few years…
Slow Telegrams and a Riffle-and-Opium Shopper in 1907 Sandakan
I need to learn more about how telegraph systems worked. I came across a couple of telegrams that were sent from Zamboanga in the Philippines to Sandakan on Borneo in…
Henry Chong – Cosmopolitan Clerk Extraordinaire
Beaufort is a nice provincial town on the western side Borneo in what is now Sabah, Malaysia. In 1912 it was part of British North Borneo, and in that year…
The Spirit of Phù Đổng and Anti-Folk Stories
I’ve been engaged in a long discussion on Facebook about, among other things, the story of a Vietnamese spirit in Phù Đổng village known in as Saint Gióng (Thánh Gióng)…
Oral Traditions on Borneo and in the Red River Delta
I’ve been having a long (and very productive) discussion with someone about an early Vietnamese text – the 15th-century – Lĩnh Nam chích quái liệt truyện (the Arrayed Tales of…
Romantic Nationalism in 1950s North Vietnam
A friend recently pointed out to me that there is an article that North Vietnamese historian Trần Huy Liệu wrote in 1956 that more or less set the guidelines by…
Texts, Archaeological Evidence and Vague Language
I’m reading a book on the emergence of “early states” (nhà nước sơ khai) in the Red River Delta. This book claims to be based on archaeological evidence, but what…
Early History and Multidisciplinary Scholarship in Vietnam
Several decades ago in North America it was common for archaeologists to use historical texts to interpret and explain their findings. Then archaeologists started to realize that many historical texts…
Drunk Russians and Loyal Natives in 1901 Singapore
I was looking at some documents from the Straits Settlements that are held in the Colonial Office in London and came across some letters and other documents related to the…
Staying Dreamflower-Fresh in 1954 Burma
I came across these images in some 1954 issues of The New Light of Burma newspaper. They are for Pond’s products, such as talcum powder, lipstick and “dreamflower powder.” Sprinkling…
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