Recently in a few different conversations that I’ve had with Vietnamese friends the topic of wet rice agriculture and respect for women has come up.Today there is a widely-held belief…
One of the most important books in English on Vietnamese history is David G. Marr’s Vietnamese Tradition on Trial 1920-1945.Published in 1984, Vietnamese Tradition on Trial is about the tremendous…
I’ll be giving a webinar talk this Sunday (20 September), 14:00 (Vietnam time) for the “Vietnam Studies Research Snapshot Webinars” series (https://www.facebook.com/VSRSwebinars).See the link below to register for the webinar.Here…
Higher education is going to be different when the Covid-19 pandemic ends, and I can see multiple forces at play that will collectively diminish fields like Asian Studies and Asian…
For basically as long as scholars have been writing in English about premodern Vietnamese history, there has been an effort to argue that Vietnam (or at least part of it)…
For the past decade I’ve been thinking and writing about the declining interest among students in History, the Humanities, Asian Studies, etc., and I’ve recently gotten a better sense of…
A few months ago a new genetic study that provides information about the early history of the area we now call “Vietnam” was published.The article is entitled “Extensive Ethnolinguistic Diversity…
This is an introduction to Burma that looks at the various peoples and places that make up that country.And yes, Rambo makes an appearance. . .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evIZt6uChJE
Recently many Vietnamese universities have started to become interested in rising up in the international university ranking system, and one of the main ways to do this is to get…
A long-time reader of this blog, “Saigon Buffalo,” shared information and documents that he discovered concerning religious descrimination towards Buddhists during the period of Ngô Đình Diệm’s presidency in South…