Cù Lao Hainan and Han-Việt Expansion
I was looking at collection of maps called Sketched Maps of the Southern and Northern Regions (Nam Bắc kỳ hội đồ 南北圻繪圖) that I’m guessing dates from the late nineteenth…
Subalterns Speaking in Colonial Burma
One form of history that is fascinating to read but a challenge to research is what is often referred to now as subaltern history or “history from below.” This is…
Vietnamese Learning for the Nation and Western Learning for Internationalization
In the late nineteenth century the Qing Dynasty official, Zhang Zhidong, coined a phrase that became very famous – “Chinese learning for substance and Western learning for function” (中學為體，西學為用 Zhongxue…
The Evils of Quốc Ngữ # 7
A long time ago I criticized the scholars who translated the Đồng Khánh địa dư chí into Vietnamese (here), because in that work the people whom we would today refer…
Georges Coedès and the Sanskrit Inscriptions of Cambodia
I recently read a fabulous article by Alexis Sanderson, entitled “The Śaiva Religion among the Khmers (Part I)” in the Bulletin de l’Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient 90-91 (2003): 349-462. In this…
Seo Ho-su’s Criticism of the King of Annam
As part of the diplomatic negotiations that took place after the Qing were defeated by the Tây Sơn, the Qing emperor, Qianlong, agreed to recognize Quang Trung as the “King…
Stone Inscriptions and Local Memories in Vietnam
There is an interesting post on the blog Archeological*Highlights about a stone inscription that was recently found in Bắc Ninh Province. Dated to 601 CE, it is now the earliest…
Ngô Sĩ Liên and the Articulation of Identity
Historian Keith Taylor made the comment a few decades ago in his The Birth of Vietnam that the Vietnamese “learned to articulate their non-Chinese identity in terms of China’s cultural…
The Myth of the Southeast Asian Reality Concealed by Chinese Views
In 1979 Claude Jacques published an essay entitled “‘Funan,’ ‘Zhenla’: The Reality Concealed by these Chinese Views of Indochina.” His point in this short work was to argue that Western…
Việt Nam’s Glorious History of. . . Conquest
In the early twentieth century, Vietnamese historical writing changed dramatically. After producing historical scholarship for centuries that highlighted the achievements and failures of monarchs, in the early twentieth centuries some…
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