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  • Read more about the article “Savages” in Vietnamese History: An [AI] Tale of Borders and Beliefs

    “Savages” in Vietnamese History: An [AI] Tale of Borders and Beliefs

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:November 19, 2024
    • Post category:AI & History/AI Reading
    • Post comments:4 Comments

    In 2017, I wrote a blog post about a tool (AntConc) that can be used to search through texts, and I talked about how we could use that tool to…

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    Read more about the article History Is Over. So, Let’s Get Started.

    History Is Over. So, Let’s Get Started.

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:November 17, 2024
    • Post category:AI & History
    • Post comments:5 Comments

    Just about a year ago, I wrote a blog post in which I talked about ways in which AI can make life exciting and productive for historians.It was an optimistic…

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    Read more about the article Here is an Example of the Problem with the Scholarship on “Srivijaya”

    Here is an Example of the Problem with the Scholarship on “Srivijaya”

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:February 20, 2024
    • Post category:Srivijaya
    • Post comments:5 Comments

    As I have said a million times by now, there is a place name in Chinese historical sources, Sanfoqi 三佛齊, that in the early twentieth century, French scholar George Cœdès…

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    Read more about the article I FINALLY Found Sanfoqi!!

    I FINALLY Found Sanfoqi!!

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:February 14, 2024
    • Post category:Srivijaya
    • Post comments:24 Comments

    Off and on over the past few years, I have been researching about a place called “Sanfoqi” 三佛齊. This is a name that appears in Chinese sources from the tenth…

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    Read more about the article Global Vietnam Book Series and Journal

    Global Vietnam Book Series and Journal

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 10, 2023
    • Post category:Engaging With Vietnam
    • Post comments:0 Comments

    This year, Phan Lê Hà and I, with the support of a wonderful team of associate series editors, editorial board members and a series editorial assistant, launched a new book…

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    Read more about the article The Great Dispersal: Academia Today

    The Great Dispersal: Academia Today

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 8, 2023
    • Post category:Higher Education
    • Post comments:1 Comment

    I always enjoy looking around me and trying to get a sense of what is happening in my profession. I’m an historian of Southeast Asian history, but I also have…

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    Read more about the article This Should Be The Revision Age!!

    This Should Be The Revision Age!!

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 7, 2023
    • Post category:Vietnamese Historical Scholarship/Western Scholarship on Vietnam
    • Post comments:5 Comments

    One point that I keep bringing up, but I don’t find it getting recognized, is the fact that the capabilities that we now have when we conduct research in the…

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    Read more about the article Popular Confucianism/Culture in Premodern Vietnam

    Popular Confucianism/Culture in Premodern Vietnam

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 6, 2023
    • Post category:Vietnamese Historical Scholarship
    • Post comments:0 Comments

    If there is one topic in Vietnamese history that I think people today have the hardest time understanding it is the topic of “Confucianism.”Why is that?Well, it’s a long story,…

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    Read more about the article History in the AI Age: A Self-Reflection

    History in the AI Age: A Self-Reflection

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 3, 2023
    • Post category:AI & History/AI Reading/Asian history/Asian Studies/Digital Southeast Asia
    • Post comments:2 Comments

    In the spring of 1994, during my first year of graduate school, I took a seminar on Chinese Intellectual History. In that seminar, in addition to weekly readings and discussions,…

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    Read more about the article The East Asian Context of Lý Dynasty Buddhism

    The East Asian Context of Lý Dynasty Buddhism

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:November 19, 2023
    • Post category:Ly and Tran Dynasties
    • Post comments:6 Comments

    I recently read a chapter by the late historian John K. Whitmore entitled “Building a Buddhist Monarchy in Đai Viêt: Temples and Texts under Lý Nhân-tông (r. 1072–1127)” and it…

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