The Three Teachings (Tam Giáo) in Vietnam
One topic about the Vietnamese past that I find is poorly understood is the issue of the “Three Teachings” (Tam giáo) of Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism. I just did a…
Jemadar Guptha, Loyal to the Empire and Beaten by the Japanese in World War II Sarawak
It is well known that after the Japanese occupied Southeast Asia in World War II, Indian nationalists formed something known as the “Indian National Army,” a military force that had…
The Dayang Muda “Puttin’ on the Ritz” in WWII Bombay
In looking around in the materials digitized by the Australian National Archives I came across a file called “Landing Permits Dayang Muda of Sarawak.” Sarawak, on the island of Borneo,…
Working Women and Exploitative States in Premodern Southeast Asia
As the field of Southeast Asian Studies developed (particularly in North America and Australia) in the second half of the twentieth century, one of the ideas that came to be…
Searching for the Trưng Sisters and Rain (Part 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZwd1_JwGuE&feature=youtu.be Transcript: Late afternoon in Hanoi in July. A day after going to the Trưng sisters’ temple in Mê Linh to pray for rain, it still hasn’t rained. In fact,…
Searching for the Trưng Sisters and Rain (Part 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSjowhZZ8nI&feature=youtu.be Transcript: Morning in Hanoi in July. I get up early to try to get some work done, to beat the heat, but then the power goes out. Apparently there…
Searching for the Trưng Sisters and Rain (Part II)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3Jh4KNpm4&feature=youtu.be Transcript: Late afternoon in Hanoi in July. Although it’s still incredibly hot, there are a lot of people out exercising. I suppose it’s good to sweat your brains out…
Searching for the Trưng Sisters and Rain (Part I)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVz00zeha8 Transcript: Hanoi in July. . . It’s hot! It’s really really hot!! About the only people out on the street are people on motorcycles and they are just going…
What is Southeast Asia? (or How to Hunt a Jackfruit)
The question of “what is Southeast Asia” is one that garnered a lot of attention in “the West” in the years following World War II. In the end, after years…
The Báo cực truyện as a Collection of Buddhist Miracle Tales
An importance source for the early history of the Red River Delta is a text known as the Báo cực truyện 報極傳. This text dates perhaps from the late eleventh…
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