Equestrian Diplomacy in Thailand
I wrote a blog entry a while ago on “Bovine Diplomacy in South Vietnam” in which I talked about how the Australians sent cows to South Vietnam in the late…
Blood Matters in Colonial Cambodia
I was looking at pictures that have been digitized by the French National Library and came across some interesting images of people from Cambodia that were taken by a photographer…
The Isaan Vietnamese in 1970
In 1999, Christopher Goscha published a pioneering study called Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of the Vietnamese Revolution (1885-1954) in which he looked at the importance of places outside…
Phan Huy Chú on Ancient Geography
In the early nineteenth century, Phan Huy Chú recorded a lot of geographical information. He has a “Treatise on the Territory” section in his massive Cataloged Record of the Institutions…
Serving the Japanese in Southeast Asia during WW II
The National Archives of Australia has quite a few materials on the activities of Japanese in Southeast Asia during World War II as the Australians were involved in the effort…
Bovine Diplomacy in South Vietnam
In 1959, South Vietnam welcomed some new “immigrants” – 120 cows and 10 bulls from Sydney, Australia. I found some promotional photographs about this in the National Archives of Australia.…
Hu Nim on Clandestine Radio in 1973 Cambodia
Alexander Hinton’s Why Did They Kill: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide is a fascinating study of the ideas that the Khmer Rouge employed to recruit supporters, and to then…
Where was the Đông Thổ (東土)?
In the eleventh lunar month of the fifth year of Emperor Gia Long’s reign (1806), Minister of the Ministry of War Lê Quang Định submitted to the emperor a completed…
The Illustrated Treatise on An Nam
As readers of this blog will know, I’m not very interested in the big fight over the North Borneo Sea (or the Austronesian Sea, as I’ve called it here). However,…
Ethnicity South of the Yangzi
In his 1983 work, The Birth of Vietnam, Keith Taylor stated that by the time of the establishment of an autonomous polity in the Red River delta in the tenth…
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