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…
Dương Bá Trác on the Historical Evolution of Vietnamese Society
A few months ago I wrote a post on a scholar from the early twentieth century, Dương Bá Trác, and his ideas about the origins of the Vietnamese race as…
Early Vietnamese History Translations
I just saw an announcement on an email listserv that I’m on for a site which has translations of texts that deal with early Vietnamese history. The site has English-language…
The Two Joan of Arcs of Việt Nam
I visited the Vietnamese language page of Radio France International and came across an article on the Trưng sisters. It was nationalistic, and like most nationalistic writings, it projected the…
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