Digitizing the Historical Geography of Vietnam with GIS
One digital humanities project that I would love to see take place would be the creation of a web page that would enable people to interactively examine the extensive amount…
What do Đông Sơn Bronze Drums have to do with the Việt?
Đông Sơn bronze drums are beautiful artifacts that attest to the sophistication of the people who made them, but how were those people related to the people who eventually came to refer to themselves as the Việt?
I was thinking about this question while reading an entry in Lê Tắc’s fourteenth-century Brief Treatise on An Nam (An Nam chí lược) about the “Lạo Tử” (獠子).
It’s Time for Southeast Asian History to Go Digital
The “digital humanities” is, if not the hottest field in academia in the US today, certainly the fastest growing. If you observe the announcements that are posted to web sites…
Agro-Cultural Complexes Instead of Ethnic Groups in Mainland SEAsia
Well since the “Vietnamese Historical Scholarship is Dead” post is getting some attention these days, it’s a good chance to follow up on something that I only mentioned in passing…
A Vietnamese View of Interracial Couples in 1919 London
Having just written about Eurasians in Singapore during World War II, let us now take a look at how Eurasians come about – through interracial relationships. I came across some…
Betraying Eurasians in WW II Singapore
I think it would be safe to say that anthropologist Ann Stoler is one of the pioneers of the study of “mixed-race” peoples in colonial settings, and in European colonies…
Daw Pyu the Mac Phsu Balm Queen
You may have heard of the two “Tiger Balm Kings” (Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par) that is, the two ethnic Chinese from Burma who went on to create…
The King of Seasonings in 1950s Thailand
I came across this advertisement for Aji-No-Moto brand monosodium glutamate (MSG) from a Chinese-language newspaper from Thailand in the 1950s. It is called “The King of Seasonings” and the advertisement…
What is Historical Scholarship in Vietnam Integrating With?
So the Fourth International Conference on Vietnamese Studies is taking place at the moment in Hanoi (or perhaps just coming to an end right about now). The theme of the…
Đông Sơn Headhunters
A couple of weeks ago I met someone who told me about Bác sĩ Kiều Quang Chẩn and said that she had heard him give an interesting talk in California…
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