Ethnic Modernities in 1959 British Borneo
I was looking at a newspaper called the Borneo Bulletin. It started to be published in 1953 in Brunei, but it was directed at readers in Sawarak and Sabah as…
The Bách Việt and the Absence of Postcolonial History in Vietnam
Not long after many colonized peoples around the globe gained independence in the middle of the twentieth century, some scholars started to notice that in many ways colonialism still existed,…
The Ladies (and a few men) of Viet-Nam
There was a magazine that was published in North Vietnam from the late 1950s into the 1970s called “VIET-NAM.” It was published in foreign languages and was a kind of…
Mị Nương the Tai Monster
The text that I mentioned in the previous post, the An Nam chí nguyên, contains an entry on Mount Tản Viên which talks about a spirit there called Mị Nương…
An Important Text for Vietnamese History that Very Few People Read
In 1932, the École française d’Extrême-Orient published in Hanoi a text called the An Nam chí nguyên/Annan zhiyuan 安南志原. This publication contained an introductory study by Émile Gaspardone in which…
Crowdsourcing the Hồng Đức bản đồ
There are quite a few libraries these days that are using a technique called “crowdsourcing” to transcribe and digitize manuscripts that they have in their collections. Essentially what libraries are…
Making Money in World War II North Borneo
In 1945, the Australian Imperial Forces were given the task of retaking from the Japanese the former British territories on the island of Borneo. To do this, the Australians had…
Tours of Vietnam and Holiday Time in Thailand
There is a book that came out in 2009 called Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory by Scott Laderman. This is what the description about the book says:…
The Online Presence of Southeast Asian History Faculties/Departments
Partly out of curiosity, and partly because I often hear academics in Southeast Asia talk about their desire to “engage” internationally and to raise the stature of their respective universities…
Victor Goloubew and the Disappearance of the Indonesien Creators of the Bronze Drums
In 1929, Victor Goloubew, a Russian-born scholar who worked for the French École française d’Extrême-Orient, publshed an article in which he examined some of the materials that had been found by Louis Pajot in his excavations at Đông Sơn.
At that time, it was still not clear to scholars who had originally made the bronze drums. Hirth had argued that they had been created by the Chinese during their expeditions against savages (man 蠻) in the south in the first century CE, whereas De Groot had contended that the bronze drums were created by those very people whom the Chinese had campaigned against.
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