Teaching Vietnamese to the Cham in South Vietnam
Today I also found some texts that were used to teach the Vietnamese language to ethnic minorities in South Vietnam. This one is for the Cham, but there were other…
Vietnamese and English at the University of Hue
The academic world in many parts of Asia has become “English crazy” in recent years. In an effort to “internationalize” education, universities in countries where English is not a native…
Missing Voices in Vietnamese History
Scholars in the English-speaking world really did not start to research and write about Vietnamese history until the 1960s-1970s. At that time Vietnam had already become independent from French colonial…
Modern Indonesians and Medieval Việt
I recently started reading the famous Indonesian novel Never the Twain (Saluh Asuhan) by Abdoel Moeis. Written in 1928, it is about a young Minangkabau man, Hanafi, who has become…
A Chinese Hawaiian Beauty Queen and Singaporean Satay in 1962
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii has been hosting a beauty pageant since 1950 as part of a larger event known as the Narcissus Festival. The pageant is for…
Music and the (Un)Importance of a Southeast Asian Cultural Substratum
In 1993, the same year that O. W. Wolters gave the speech in Jakarta about Southeast Asia that I mentioned in the previous post, Vietnamese scholar Đinh Gia Khánh published a…
Flying Heads, Third Gender Spirit Mediums and Southeast Asia as a Southeast Asian Field of Study
Someone asked me today to suggest some books about the general history of Southeast Asia, and this reminded me of a larger “problem” that I’ve been thinking about for a…
Maps of Islands in the West Philippine Sea from the 1770s
The Philippines is one of several Southeast Asian nations that is challenging China’s claim to various islands in what Chinese call the South China Sea, but what people in the…
Electrifying the Male Body in Early-20th-Century Singapore
A few months ago I wrote about an advertisement that I found in a Chinese-language newspaper from Singapore in the early twentieth century for a “manhood creator.” Today I came…
A French Barbie in the Bà Nà Hills
I’m not a big fan of museums. I think some are ok, but in general I just don’t enjoy looking at objects in glass cases. So whenever I find myself…
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