Crazy Capitalist Cold War Propaganda Art in Southeast Asia
Back in the late 1980s I was friends with a guy who was the manager of a failing rock band in the Soviet Union. The band he managed was not…
Letters from Hồ Chí Minh in the US National Archives
Looking around again in the US National Archives through the Online Public Access portal, I found this letter from Hồ Chí Minh. To quote the description on the web page,…
Maps of Vietnam that have Not been Digitized
I came across this nice map of Vietnam in 1890 that the Library of Congress (LOC) has digitized. This then made me think about all of the wonderful old Vietnamese…
The “Asiatic Country” of British North Borneo
A while ago I wrote about a letter I found that US consul in Sandakan, British North Borneo (BNB) Lester Maynard wrote to the Buick Motor Company in 1907 in…
Taiwan, Vietnam, Lim Giong and Life at the Edge of Empire
If you want to understand the past, you have to engage in comparative history. If you just study about one place, then you cannot possibly gain an accurate understanding of…
Malaya’s Multiethnic Military?
I came across these images today by using the Online Public Access page of the US National Archives. Apparently the US Information Agency created these posters in 1953. Written in…
Predicting Apathy in 1950 Indochina
In looking around in the Online Public Access page of the US National Archives, I came across a declassified CIA report from 1950 that was speculating about whether or not…
Sappy Love Songs and the Meaning of Mainland Southeast Asian History During the Cold War
In 1966 John Denver wrote the song “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” When I was growing up, I didn't like that song. The version I heard the most when I…
Morality Books, Libraries and the Limits of Our Knowledge of the Vietnamese Past
As the post below indicates, there were many different morality books (thiện thư/shanshu 善書) that were produced in the past, but ultimately there was one that was the most popular,…
Printing Morality Books at Ngọc Sơn Temple
Before nationalism pushed him into the back room around 1950, Wenchang Dijun/Văn Xương Đế Quân 文昌帝君 was the main spirit honored at Ngọc Sơn Temple in Hanoi. Guansheng Dijun/Quan Thánh…
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