Việt Origins (01): Ancient Races
Long before the Vietnamese language existed, and long before there was a culture that we can identify as Việt, the genes that today exist in the bodies of Vietnamese started…
Việt Origins (00): A Series
The topic of Việt origins is one that people always seem to be interested in. Every year there are articles that get published in the Vietnamese media about this topic.At…
Don’t Look Up: A Tsunami of International Publications is Coming!!
In two previous posts, I’ve talked about how the global university rankings system is affecting scholarship and the work of scholars. (here and here)Various metrics are used in creating university…
Global Rankings and the End of the Humanities
In an earlier post, I wrote about the ways in which journal rankings systems can make it difficult for people in small specialized fields to meet the “key performance indicators”…
“Gia Long” Does NOT Mean “Gia Định + Thăng Long”
I keep coming across references to this idea that in 1802, Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, the founder of the Nguyễn Dynasty, to quote Wikipedia: “crowned himself emperor, under the reign name…
University Rankings, Publishing, and the Future of Knowledge Production and Academic Employment
The world of academic knowledge production today is very different from what it was just 5-10 years ago and it will continue to change rapidly in the years ahead.I will…
Việt Origins (Nguồn gốc người Việt) – 2021 Version
The topic of Việt origins is one that many people find interesting. However, it is a topic that requires that one constantly update one’s knowledge.Over the past 10 years, a…
The Internet, Wokeism, and Vietnamese Confucian Scholars in the 1920s
For the past two decades, I have been working in higher education and observing how the Internet, and the digital revolution more generally, has transformed my profession (History).While there have…
Honoring the Emperor in the (Original) Gia Định Báo
“Gia Định báo” is the name of what many people consider to be the first Vietnamese newspaper. It was first published in 1865 in Vietnamese using the Latin script.“Gia Định”…
Le Minh Khai Exposed!!!
Well, no, that’s not what this post is actually about.Instead, it’s just that I recently published a new article in which I “expose” some of what I think about academia,…
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