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…
The Problem of “Either-Or-but-not-Why” in Vietnamese History
After writing the post below about Ngô Thì Sĩ’s appraisal of Triệu Đà/Zhao Tuo, I came across a Wikipedia page in Vietnamese on the topic of “the problem of the…
Ngô Thì Sĩ’s Demotion of Triệu Đà/Zhao Tuo
I’ve been reading a text that was complied in the second half of the eighteenth century by Ngô Thì Sĩ (1726-1780). It is called the Former Compilation of the Historical…
Giặc Bắc đến xâm lược!: Translations and Exclamation Points
In the post below, I wrote about some information in an inscription that was inscribed on a bell at a Daoist temple in the Red River Delta, the Thông Thánh…
The Daoist Appropriation/Subordination of Bạch Hạc Spirits
Some of the earliest writings about the Red River Delta region were about its spirits. More specifically, they were about the appropriation of local spirits by the ruling elite. This…
Elephant Mountain and the Erasure of Việt Indigeneity
I remember visiting a cave once near Lake Inle in Burma. It had a sulphur spring inside, so when you went into the cave it felt warm and you could…
Why is Cổ Loa so Unimportant?
It recently came to my attention that archaeologist Nam Kim from the University of Wisconsin has just published a book entitled The Origins of Ancient Vietnam. This is great news…
A Woman’s Breasts, A Vomiting Dog and the (Un)Importance of High School History
There is a big discussion going on in Vietnam these days about high school history. The Ministry of Education and Training wants to subsume the topic of history at the…
The “Important People” in the Annan Zhiyuan
The Annan zhiyuan, a fifteenth-century gazetteer of the greater Red River Delta region that Ming Dynasty officials created contains a section on “people” (人物), or what it is probably better…
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