Chinese Opposition to “Big Thai Race-ism” in 1949
On May 16, 1949, the PRC’s Renmin ribao 人民日报 (People’s Daily) carried a story about the change of name from Siam to Thailand. In 1939, Prime Minister Phibunsongkhram changed the…
José Rizal, Hoài-Thanh and the Spectre of Comparisons
Looking through some of the newspapers that the National Library of Vietnam has digitized, I came across a weekly newspaper called Sông Hương (Perfume River). In its first issue, published…
Overseas Chinese in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945
I recently found out that the National Library of Vietnam has digitized some newspapers. They’ve done a very good job, and it is wonderful to be able to read these…
The Man in Pumpuang Duangjan’s Dream
Pumpuang Duangjan (พุ่มพวง ดวงจันทร์) was a very famous singer of lukthung, or Thai “country” music in the 1980s who died tragically young in 1992. What follows is a translation of…
Suraphol Sombatcharoen’s 16 Years
Following World War II, the US government invested heavily in “area studies” in an effort to gain knowledge about the world which it was seeking to dominate. Southeast Asia was…
Following My Boy Lollipop into Southeast Asia
My Boy Lollipop is an American pop song that has been recorded many times around the world. There is a Finnish version of this song from 1964 that I have…
The Bad Chinese Food that Foreigners Eat in Vietnam
I was looking around in the Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive when I came across an issue of a magazine called “Life in Vietnam.” This was clearly a magazine that…
1960s Thai Shadow Bands and the Burmese Axe Dance
On YouTube I came across some music that Sublime Frequencies put out on a CD a few years ago called “Shadow Music of Thailand.” This is what the Sublime Frequencies…
The Bee Jays and the Trailers at the El Amigo in 1973
In 1973 at the “el amigo nite club” on Kitchener Road in Singapore a band called the Bee Jays performed nightly. With a name like Bee Jays, one can’t help but…
Chen Jinghe and the Historical Document Translation Project at the University of Hue
I was looking around in the Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive when I found quite a few materials that were from an organization called the American Friends of Vietnam (AFV).…
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