Sargon and Hùng: Heroes of the Ancient World!!
I was amazed to find the other day on the French National Library’s web site that in 1892 a Frenchman by the name of Abel des Michels published a French…
Olov Janse, Buffalo Boys, Spirits and the Foundation of Archaeology in Indochina
A few years ago historian Hayden Cherry published a very nice article which among other things talked about the early years of archaeology in French Indochina. [“Digging up the Past:…
Willoughby Wallace Hooper’s Photographs from the time of the Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885-86)
I was looking through the British Library’s online gallery of images from its Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections when I came across some amazing pictures of Burma in the late…
De-Westernizing Vietnamese History
I’ve said many times before that the most important period for understanding all of Vietnamese history is the one period that has been studied the least – the early twentieth…
Mahjong and Dondang Sayang
A few weeks ago I wrote about a new book with accompanying CDs called Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast Asia. One of the songs in…
“Chinese” Movie Theaters in Early-1960s Bangkok
For those who don’t know about it, there is a wonderful web page/project called The Southeast Asia Movie Theater Project where someone is going around primarily mainland Southeast Asia, and…
Liễu Hạnh and Trần Hưng Đạo
I tried to experiment with Timeline JS. I couldn't get it to embed in Wordpress, and Vietnamese fonts do not look very good in it, but it’s obviously a powerful…
Ethnic Modernities in 1959 British Borneo
I was looking at a newspaper called the Borneo Bulletin. It started to be published in 1953 in Brunei, but it was directed at readers in Sawarak and Sabah as…
The Bách Việt and the Absence of Postcolonial History in Vietnam
Not long after many colonized peoples around the globe gained independence in the middle of the twentieth century, some scholars started to notice that in many ways colonialism still existed,…
The Ladies (and a few men) of Viet-Nam
There was a magazine that was published in North Vietnam from the late 1950s into the 1970s called “VIET-NAM.” It was published in foreign languages and was a kind of…
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