Agrarian Transformation in Thailand, and Rural-Urban Interactions
One of the great joys of my work is making videos of conversations with scholars who research about Southeast Asia. It was my great pleasure and honor to recently make…
Vietnamese Prehistory and International Scholarship – Part 2: Thought & Solheim
In 1971, archaeologist Wilhelm "Bill" Solheim made some comments in the magazine National Geographic about the origins of agriculture. His comments were premature, and turned out to be false. Then…
Vietnamese Prehistory and International Scholarship – Part 1: Introduction
For the past half century or so there has been an idea circulating in the Vietnamese world that holds that the ancestors of the Vietnamese were the first people to…
Tiền sử Việt Nam và học thuật quốc tế (phần 1)
This is my first attempt at making a video in Vietnamese. . . You gotta start somewhere. . . In recent years some Vietnamese people interested in history, both inside…
How May I Help You?
Following up on the ideas in the previous post about how valuable it is to try to understand what "users" of a product/service actually think, and given that I've been…
This Blog Needs UX!! Academia Could Use Some Too!!
I keep thinking about the times we are living in, about how dramatically technology is transforming our lives, and about how the professional world I inhabit (academia/the Humanities/area studies) does…
Engaging With Vietnam #11 in Leiden
I've been in conference-organization mode, but the conference is now ready for takeoff. For anyone interested, the program for the 11th Engaging With Vietnam conference is available here.
How Nguyễn Phúc Khoát Declined to Become Emperor
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, “Vietnam” was under the rule of a single dynasty, the Lê Dynasty, but the land was actually divided in two, with each half ruled…
Nguyễn Đăng Thịnh’s 1744 Request that Nguyễn Phúc Khoát Become Emperor
According to the official chronicles of the Nguyễn Dynasty, the Đại Nam thực lục (hereafter ĐNTL), in 1744 Nguyễn Đăng Thịnh, an official in Đàng Trong, presented a petition to…
Nguyễn Phúc Khoát, Liu Bang and the Grand Transversal
In 1744 Nguyễn Đăng Thịnh, an official in Đàng Trong, presented a letter to his ruler, Nguyễn Phúc Khoát, the “Nguyễn lord” of Đàng Trong, encouraging him to take the…
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