Where was the Đông Thổ (東土)?
In the eleventh lunar month of the fifth year of Emperor Gia Long’s reign (1806), Minister of the Ministry of War Lê Quang Định submitted to the emperor a completed…
The Illustrated Treatise on An Nam
As readers of this blog will know, I’m not very interested in the big fight over the North Borneo Sea (or the Austronesian Sea, as I’ve called it here). However,…
Ethnicity South of the Yangzi
In his 1983 work, The Birth of Vietnam, Keith Taylor stated that by the time of the establishment of an autonomous polity in the Red River delta in the tenth…
The Yao versus the Việt
So the Yao (or Dao in Vietnamese) maintained a story about themselves which they got from early Chinese sources. This story claims that they are descended from a dog-man named…
The Yao and the Việt
I have never seen anyone compare the Yao with the Việt, but someone should. The Yao (or Dao in Vietnamese) are a people who lived in the mountains in an…
Burma in Blur
Driving from Pyin Oo Lwin down to Mandalay late one afternoon, the rays of the setting sun were lighting up parts of trees and catching a lot of dust that…
Trần Quốc Vượng, Identity and Power
The late Professor Trần Quốc Vượng was a creative thinker and a wonderful storyteller. He wrote extensively, and his writings are enjoyable to read. One aspect of thầy Trần Quốc…
Ieng Sary and Radio Stung Treng
Ieng Sary, a man who served as the foreign minster of the Khmer Rouge, recently died at the age of 87. Seth Mydans has an article about him (here) in…
From Chinese to American by Conquest in Siam
In 1898, shortly after US naval forces had captured Manila, a man of Chinese ethnicity arrived at the port in Bangkok on a boat from Manila and claimed to be…
Lim Boon Keng’s Ambiguous Protest
The American decision at the turn of the twentieth century to prohibit Chinese from entering the Philippines, that I wrote about below, obviously must have offended some people at the…
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