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…
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…
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…
“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”…
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,…
Over the past couple of months, I have spent some time exploring Vietnamese materials that the National Library of France has digitized. As I have done so, I have asked…
Several months ago, or maybe longer, I downloaded a new article that I wanted to read, but I’ve only now had time to do so.The article is by Trần Thị…
I recently co-wrote an article with my colleague, anthropologist Đinh Hồng Hải, on the “Lạc Việt” (Chn., Luoyue).This is a name that appears in ancient Chinese texts where it refers…
In the previous post I praised a recent article by Cuong Mai on premodern Vietnamese popular religion. What I particularly liked about it is the way that Cuong identified and…
I just read a really good article. It is entitled “The Karma of Love: Buddhist Karmic Discourses in Confucian and Daoist Voices in Vietnamese Tales of the Marvelous and Uncanny”…