The Timing of the 1979 Chinese Invasion of Vietnam
I have read countless times that in 1979 the Chinese invaded Vietnam to “punish” the Vietnamese for having invaded Cambodia, a “client state” of the PRC. I think that is…
Kiều Chinh and the International Asian Film World in the 1960s-70s
I came across some articles from The Straits Times in 1975 that were talking about a movie that was being made in Singapore at the time called Full House. Apparently…
The Loyal An Nam Wives of Guizhou Men in the Sixteenth Century
I was looking around in a searchable version of the Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times (Gujin tushu jicheng 古今圖書集成), an encyclopedic collection of…
The Nidhi Model in Our Flattening World
I had a long conversation with a friend yesterday about knowledge, and I woke up today thinking about Thai historian and scholar Nidhi Aeusrivongse. Our conversation yesterday was about the…
Multilingual Movies in 1963 Phnom Penh
Having come across the picture of the Hawaii Cinema in Phnom Penh (see the post below), I decided to try to see if I could find any advertisements for it.…
Hawaii in Southeast Asia
In the first half of the 1960s, American singer Elvis Presley made three movies in Hawaii: Blue Hawaii, Girls! Girls! Girls! and Paradise, Hawaiian Style. In at least one of…
Visualizing Nationalists in 1945 Vietnam
I came across a report from October 1945 that was created by the US State Department. It contains biographies of nationalists in Indochina. In the fall of 1945, Ho Chi…
Korea, Vietnam and Area Studies
[A few days ago I posted this piece, but then I deleted it because I thought people might see it as too negative. My intent in writing this piece, however,…
Watching (a Curveless Version of) 42nd Street at the Sala Chalermkrung in 1933
In 1933, Warner Brothers released a musical film called 42nd Street. The film has been called a “backstage musical” as it focuses on a group of dancers and actors who…
A Chinese College in Late-19th-Century Singapore
The internationalization of higher education is a major trend around the globe at the moment. One of the manifestations of this phenomenon is that Western universities are setting up programs…
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