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…
Lương Trúc Đàm, Education, and the Knowledge of the West and the Center
The words that we use have a tremendous influence on how we see and understand the world, and this is particularly the case with the names of nations. As soon…
The Death and Afterlife of the Public Phone in Southeast Asia
I was in the Rangoon airport a while ago when I came across this scene here. It is a space for some kind of public phone, but there is no…
Wanted for Murder in 1900 Sarawak
I came across this “wanted” poster in the January 2, 1900 edition of the Sarawak Gazette. Eight (possibly) Teochew Chinese were wanted for the murder of pepper planter Liong Ten…
From Bridge to Bridge with Lê Quang Định in Early Nineteenth-Century Vietnam
In the early nineteenth century, Nguyễn Dynasty official Lê Quang Định compiled a kind of geographical text called the Hoàng Việt nhất thống dư địa chí. Essentially what this work…
- Go to the previous page
- 1
- …
- 90
- 91
- 92
- 93
- 94
- 95
- 96
- …
- 118
- Go to the next page