I’ve seen it written countless times before that after the Han Dynasty extended its empire into into the area of what is now Vietnam, that “the Chinese” tried to Sinicize…
The Han Chinese who lived in the area of what is today Vietnam during the time of the Han Dynasty were afraid of something. This is obvious from the houses…
I’ve been reading a recent (2017) PhD dissertation from China that is on Han tombs in Vietnam. The dissertation is entitled “Archaeological Research on Han Tombs in Vietnam” (越南境内漢墓的考古研究) and…
In the first century AD there were a couple of Han Dynasty officials who reportedly tried to change certain cultural practices of some people in the area of what is…
In the early twentieth century, French scholar Henri Maspero came up with an undocumented theory about Han migration into the Red River delta in the first century AD (view the…
Oh no! I did it again. While reading a work on Vietnamese history, I asked myself, “How does this author know that?” And once again that question set me off…
The way that many of us view the past today is the product of scholaship that has been produced in the post-colonial era, and that has in some cases specifically…
When I started this blog 10 years ago, one of the first posts I wrote was a critique of an article on Vietnamese prehistory I found on the BBC Vietnamese…
Before we can examine the latest information on Vietnamese prehistory, we have to address a couple of important issues: “race” and the “knowledge divide.”The term “race” can be found in…
I recently published an article that dealt with the topic of the prehistory of the area of what is today Vietnam. The articled is entitled “The Centrality of ‘Fringe History’:…