History and Anti-Foreign Discourses
The temperature is rising in Asia these days, and it has a lot to do with two countries that are very closely related but that pretend not to be –…
The Foreign Origins of Premodern Monarchs
Some people are very defensive about the issue of the origins of people like Lý Công Uẩn and the Trần family that founded the Trần Dynasty. There are accounts that…
When an Apsara Ruled the Universe
The apsaras, or celestial female spirits, of Hindu-Buddhist mythology are figures of grace and elegance. They are renowned for their beauty. . . but did any of those apsaras ever…
Khoa Học and the Bình Ngô Đại Cáo
Continuing from the entry below, there is another way to look at this same issue. Of course we can never be certain what a writer had in his/her mind when…
Why did bắc nam become Bắc Nam?
“Nước non bờ cõi đã chia, phong tục Bắc Nam cũng khác.” This famous line comes from the fifteenth-century “Bình Ngô đại cáo” (Great Proclamation upon the Pacification of the…
Is There a Purpose to this Blog?
Is there a purpose to this blog? I guess I would say “sometimes.” If there is a purpose to this blog it would be to counter the negative effects of…
Nazis in the Netherlands East Indies
For more than twenty years now scholars have recognizing that when we talk about colonialism, we have to realize that it was much more complex than a simple story of…
The Progress of Khmer Women in Nagaravatta
Nagaravatta was a very important paper that was published in Cambodia in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It is a great source for gaining an understanding of the ideas…
The Origins of Patriotic Education in Vietnam
Following the ideas of the previous two blog entries below, one of the main elements of the dominant paradigm of Vietnamese history is that Vietnamese have always felt patriotic towards…
Patriotism and History in Malaysia and Hong Kong
There have been a couple of related news events recently that are quite interesting. A few days ago media in Malaysia reported that a new history curriculum is being developed…
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