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”…
“Vietnam at the Vanguard.”Yes, we know what comes to your mind when you hear those words.You think of that legendary night.October 25, 1962.The Village Vanguard in Manhattan was packed with…
In 2016, we invited multi-instrumentalist Ngô Hồng Quang to perform at the 8th Engaging With Vietnam conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.That encounter led to a collaboration between Ngô Hồng Quang and…
Whenever I write something for publication, I always think about “that graduate student.”Who is that graduate student?It’s the intelligent and talented person who is going to appear in the future.…
I have written and talked in the past about how I think that the generation that developed the field of Southeast Asian history in the English-speaking world in the 1960s…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Phan Văn Hùm, a Vietnamese journalist and intellectual who, among many other achievements, produced a book about the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming in…