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…
Racism in Vietnamese Scholarship (Part 2)
Having argued, by distorting the ideas of Soviet ethnologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Cheboksarov, that humankind was divided into two main racial groups in the early Paleolithic that then led to the…
Racism in Vietnamese Scholarship (Part 1)
So I was reading Trần Ngọc Thêm’s Searching for the True Nature of Vietnamese Culture (Tìm về bản sắc văn hóa Việt Nam), a textbook on Vietnamese culture that has…
John Pershing and the Myth of Bullets Dipped in Pig’s Blood
A few days ago, Donald Trump made an incendiary comment in public about the supposed actions of an American military officer in the Philippines more than a century ago. In particular, he repeated a myth that an American officer by the name of John Pershing had ordered that Muslims be executed with bullets that had been dipped in pig’s blood.
I had never heard of this myth, and I’m not sure where it came from, but in looking at some information about John Pershing one can get a sense of how such a myth could have been created.
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