When I first started to learn about Vietnamese history, I was taught a certain “narrative” about the Vietnamese past. That narrative argued that in the early twentieth century Phan Bội…
Anh Tây Bụi just left a comment which mentioned the vast number of Vietnamese songs that have been written about ethnic minority peoples who live in the mountains. This reminded…
There is a 1969 North Vietnamese movie that I liked called The Highland Female Teacher (Cô giáo vùng cao). It’s about a 19 year-old Hmong woman who is sent up…
I have read countless times that in 1979 the Chinese invaded Vietnam to “punish” the Vietnamese for having invaded Cambodia, a “client state” of the PRC. I think that is…
I came across some articles from The Straits Times in 1975 that were talking about a movie that was being made in Singapore at the time called Full House. Apparently…
I was looking around in a searchable version of the Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times (Gujin tushu jicheng 古今圖書集成), an encyclopedic collection of…
I had a long conversation with a friend yesterday about knowledge, and I woke up today thinking about Thai historian and scholar Nidhi Aeusrivongse. Our conversation yesterday was about the…
Having come across the picture of the Hawaii Cinema in Phnom Penh (see the post below), I decided to try to see if I could find any advertisements for it.…
In the first half of the 1960s, American singer Elvis Presley made three movies in Hawaii: Blue Hawaii, Girls! Girls! Girls! and Paradise, Hawaiian Style. In at least one of…
I came across a report from October 1945 that was created by the US State Department. It contains biographies of nationalists in Indochina. In the fall of 1945, Ho Chi…