I recently published a paper entitled “Taxation and Military Conscription in Early Modern Vietnam: Nguyễn Đàng Trong in Comparative Perspective.”While taxation and military conscription might not sound all that exciting,…
This latest installent of “Vietnamese Poetry 4.0” is of a poem by Phan Lê Hà entitled “Câu Chuyện Hoa Ngọc Lan/The Story of Champaca Flowers.”To find out what this poem…
My colleague, historian Rommel Curaming of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD), has recently published a new book entitled Power and Knowledge in…
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Rui Oliveira Lopes, an art historian in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) about two recent…
Chinese sources have been important for the writing of Southeast Asian history. In the colonial period, for instance, several scholars turned to Chinese historical materials in an effort to try…
One of the many things that I like about my work is that there are several historians who I can learn from, and I get the pleasure of making video…
Engaging With Vietnam is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 12th Engaging With Vietnam conference to be held 15-18 October 2020 in Brunei Darussalam.The conference theme is…
After spending years thinking about how to adapt what I do (teach History) in a way that can fit with the world that the Digital Revolution has created, I think…
My BA degree was in Russian language and literature. As an undergraduate student, I read thousands of pages of Russian novels (in English translation), and I loved every minute of…
One of the first posts that I ever wrote for this blog was called “Hà Văn Thùy and Ancient Việt Races (Has the BBC Gone Mad?) [5 May 2010]. I…