Hats, Sandals and Ordering Society in Han Dynasty Vietnam
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…
Seeing “Vietnamese” and “Chinese” in a Zero-Sum Game
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…
Han Chinese Refugees in the Red River Delta: The Persistence of a Colonial Myth
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…
FFVN 02: The Migration Problem
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…
An “Open Letter” to Mr. Hà Văn Thùy
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…
FFVN 01: Race and Vietnam’s Knowledge Divide
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…
Far From Vietnam: Series Introduction
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’:…
Rethinking Nguyễn Đàng Trong (Cochinchina, Nam Hà)
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,…
The Story of Champaca Flowers
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…
Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia
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…
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