Japanese Archival Materials on the Paracel Islands
Someone mentioned to me today that a lot of Japanese government documents that relate to Asian history are available online through a web page managed by the Japan Center for…
Vietnam War Fashion in 1960s Thailand
Richard A. Ruth’s In Buddha’s Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War is a fascinating study of Thailand’s involvement in Second Indochina War. There is a good review of the…
March 9, 1945 – The Day of Vietnam’s Liberation
I love reading historical documents because they never fail to demonstrate how so much of what people think today is a recent invention/construction. I was reading a history that was…
The Khmer Rouge Ambassador to China
In August 1976, a message was sent presumably from the Australian Embassy in Beijing back to Canberra concerning the Khmer Rouge ambassador to China. The memo stated that “For a…
Mân People and Đại Việt
Everyone knows that “Vietnam” supposedly gained “independence” from “Chinese” rule in the tenth century CE. After that, however, we run into problems. There are Chinese historical sources which indicate that…
On the Road in Early 1970s Malaysia
Oh it must have been great to live in Malaysia in the early 1970s and to find out that “The Imp is here!!!” Was everybody a really talking about the…
Guy Phon’s Letter to the US Government (17 August 1945)
It is well known that Hồ Chí Minh sent some letters to American President Truman seeking his country’s support for Vietnam’s independence. It is also well known that Truman never…
The 1948 Burmese Olympic Team
The Nation reported on 12 August 1948 that members of the Burmese Olympic team were entertained at Buckingham Palace by none other than Their Majesties the King and Queen themselves.…
Meeting Hồ Chí Minh in December 1945
I came across a document that a British military officer, Lieutenant Colonel P. J. F. Chapman-Walker, wrote after visiting Hanoi in December 1945. The document was later given to a…
Guo Shoujing and China’s Indisputable Sovereignty over the Korean Peninsula
So I have long avoided the issue of “those rocks in the sea” because I’ve long felt that the things that people have been saying are just too idiotic to…
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