Lý Đông A, Kim Định and a Mid-20th–Century Unorthodox Version of Early Việt History
I’ve written quite a lot on this blog about the South Vietnamese philosopher, Lương Kim Định, and his ideas about history. What was Kim Định’s view of the past? In…
Tạ Chí Đại Trường on the Tale of the Hồng Bàng Clan (Hồng Bàng thị truyện)
I was saddened to learn yesterday that South Vietnamese historian Tạ Chí Đại Trường has passed away. I never had the good fortune of meeting Tạ Chí Đại Trường, but…
Trần Trọng Dương: In His Own Words (Part 1)
Last summer (2015) at the Engaging With Vietnam conference that was held in Hanoi, scholar Trần Trọng Dương gave a keynote presentation on “The Utility of History: The Case of…
Trần Trọng Kim, Hu Shi (Hồ Thích) and the Yijing
I’ve long wondered why the Yijing (the Classic/Book of Changes) is so important for ultra-nationalist ideas in Vietnam. Extreme nationalists in Vietnam today regard the Yijing and its ideas as…
An Audiovisual Critique of Essentialized/Racialized Vietnamese History (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGHzv7Ur2Y8&feature=youtu.be UPDATE: If you cannot see the above video, either click where it says “Watch on YouTube” or click here. This is an audiovisual version of the first part (see…
Repeated Words: Giao Chỉ (The Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ld9vN5iq1Y For an explanation of this video, see the post below.
Repeated Words: Giao Chỉ
By the time medieval Việt scholars first started to compile historical records, Chinese scholars had already produced a considerable amount of historical information about the Red River Delta region. Medieval…
Racism in Vietnamese Scholarship (Part 5 – Conclusion)
In looking at all of the racialized/essentialist/Orientalist concepts that Trần Ngọc Thêm employs in his textbook, Searching for the True Nature of Vietnamese Culture (Tìm về bản sắc văn hóa…
Racism in Vietnamese Scholarship (Part 4)
Having developed a racialized/essentialist argument that Eurasia is divided into two main racial/cultural groups that can be described through various binary categories - East/West, Southeast/Northwest, agricultural/nomadic, static/dynamic - Trần Ngọc…
Racism in Vietnamese Scholarship (Part 3)
In his 1978 book, Orientalism, Edward Said documented how Western scholars and writers, particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, produced knowledge about “the Orient” which, taken together (as a…
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