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  • Theo Chân Trần Quang Đức/Following Trần Quang Đức #1

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:January 16, 2015
    • Post category:Vietnam
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    2014 in review

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:January 14, 2015
    • Post category:Uncategorized
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    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about…

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    Dutchmen, Forest Men, and the (Blurry) Line Between Western and Indigenous Knowledge

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:January 14, 2015
    • Post category:Indonesia/North Borneo
    • Post comments:3 Comments

    I was recently in Sabah, on the island of Borneo, were someone told me that the local name (in Malay) for proboscis monkeys is “blanda” (or “orang blanda”) which means…

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    Following Trần Quang Đức

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:January 11, 2015
    • Post category:Vietnam/YouTube video
    • Post comments:4 Comments

    Continuing in my effort to bring academic ideas and knowledge to YouTube, I’ve decided to make a series of videos, in collaboration with Phan Lê Hà, that focus on a…

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    Sexual Intercourse, Water Buffalos, Elephants, Daggers and Đông Sơn Culture

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:January 10, 2015
    • Post category:Southeast Asia/Vietnam
    • Post comments:8 Comments

    So I visited the History Museum in Hanoi a few weeks ago where they currently have a small (but wonderful) exhibit marking 70 years since the discovery of the first…

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    Taking a Break

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 13, 2014
    • Post category:Uncategorized
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    I'll be taking a break from posting to this blog until sometime in January. Thank you to everyone for reading and commenting. See you again next year!!

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    The Idea of a Vietnamese Pantheon

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 13, 2014
    • Post category:Vietnam
    • Post comments:12 Comments

    I was reading a review of Keith Taylor’s A History of the Vietnamese that appeared in the journal Sojourn (29.3 [2014]: 738-53) in which an historian argues that Taylor went…

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    Bombing Distilleries in World War II Indochina

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 11, 2014
    • Post category:Cambodia/Vietnam/WWII and after in Southeast Asia
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    I recently came across a report that the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) prepared during World War II on “Selected Industrial Sites in Indo-China.” In seeing this title, I assumed…

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    Dr. Francisco Africa and the Burmese Mission in WW II Southeast Asia

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 10, 2014
    • Post category:Burma/Philippines/WWII and after in Southeast Asia
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    I was looking at a report that the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) compiled during World War II about Filipinos who were collaborating with the Japanese. One of the people…

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    Choosing Culture in Southeast Asia

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:December 8, 2014
    • Post category:Southeast Asia/YouTube video
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