Southeast Asian Rice and Vietnamese Ultranationalism
In the previous post I wrote about this Vietnamese ultranationalist idea that there was an ancient divide in Asia between agriculturalists (= the ancestors of the Vietnamese) and pastoralists (=…
The Great Agricultural (Nông Nghiệp) – Pastoral (Du Mục) Divide, or how Kim Định and Trần Ngọc Thêm Distorted Will Durant’s Ideas
One of the core tenets of Vietnamese ultranationalism is the idea that there is a fundamental division between Han Chinese and Vietnamese. In particular, the argument of Vietnamese ultranationalism is…
“Huyền Thoại” – A Little Word with Big Historical Significance
Vietnamese music expert and blogger Tây Bụi just drew my attention back to a topic that I have been thinking about for a long time now - Where does the…
Interspecies Sexual Encounters in the Dai Viet Su Ky Toan Thu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5jhFY9azR8
There was Never a Kingdom Called “Âu Lạc”
I’m really getting tired of seeing people mention the “Âu Lạc Kingdom” (甌貉國). That was never the name of an actual kingdom, but I keep seeing people mention it again…
WTXT’s Late Night Textual Healing Show: The Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9-Hrm7d654 This is a video of a radio broadcast from WTXT radio, located somewhere in the Pacific, about the Vietnamese story about Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh (the mountain spirit…
A Pure-Blooded French Woman and a Dark-Skinned Native in Colonial Indochina
The Internet Archive has obtained some digitized American radio broadcasts from the 1940s called “The Pacific Story.” One broadcast was about Hanoi and was entitled “Hanoi Perfume and Gunpowder.” That…
Ngô Thì Sĩ’s Logical Thinking and the Historical Agency of Southeast Asian Women
The more I read the comments that eighteenth-century scholar Ngô Thì Sĩ made about the Việt historical record the more I like this guy. Ngô Thì Sĩ did exactly what…
Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ Eloped??
There is a very famous story in the fifteenth-century collection of tales, the Arrayed Tales of Selected Oddities from South of the Passes (Lĩnh Nam chích quái liệt truyện), about…
Vụ Tiên and Âu Cơ are Not Names, or How the Modern Vietnamese Language Distorts Vietnam’s Written Heritage
There is one name that I’ve never been sure how to translate. It appears at the beginning of the fifteenth-century Việt history, the Complete Book of the Historical Records of…
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