Gatekeeping Historical Knowledge in the Digital Age
Writing this blog has been an interesting experience. Some people like what I write, and some don’t. What I have come to realize, however, is that the people who are…
When Ducks Shit Gold in Giao Chỉ
I remember that when I was little my father brought home a book one day called They Lit Their Cigars with Five Dollar Bills. It was about sheep farmers in…
Maria Ozawa, Ngọc Sơn Temple and Morality
So Japanese porn star Maria Ozawa is scheduled to visit Vietnam. I’m sure that there must be a lot of guys in Vietnam who are excited about this, but there…
Thailand in American Soap Operas
Brigham Young University has a very interesting website (here) that allows you to do word searches in various databases, one of which contains the scripts from American soap operas from…
Ah Chong and Tomato on the Tam O’Shanter
Whenever there is something in the news (and admittedly it’s not very often) about a ship running into some kind of trouble, it always amazes me to hear how international…
Multiple Ways of Reading in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam
One of the many morality books (thiện thư 善書) that was published in the nineteenth century in Vietnam was a work called Sovereign Quan Thánh’s Peach Garden Scripture for Illuminating…
1,000 Years of Caps and Robes and 21 Pages of Excellence
In 1971, Alexander Woodside published a work entitled Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Nguyễn and Ch’ing Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.…
Marrying the Ugly in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam
There was a genre of writings that were published extensively in nineteenth-century Vietnam called morality books (thiện thư 善書).Morality books were texts that had originally been revealed in China by…
Anh Hùng Dân Tộc and Repetitive Participatory Nationalism
I can remember watching a game show on Vietnamese television maybe a decade or so ago. It was around the time that TV programming in Vietnam was starting to change,…
The Textbook-ification of the Vietnamese Past
For a long time now I have felt that the first decade or so of the twentieth century is the most important period for anyone who studies Vietnamese history to…
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