For the past two decades, I have been working in higher education and observing how the Internet, and the digital revolution more generally, has transformed my profession (History).While there have…
“Gia Định báo” is the name of what many people consider to be the first Vietnamese newspaper. It was first published in 1865 in Vietnamese using the Latin script.“Gia Định”…
Over the past couple of months, I have spent some time exploring Vietnamese materials that the National Library of France has digitized. As I have done so, I have asked…
The other day, Saigoneer posted some beautiful pictures of a movie theater in Vietnam that was recently built in the Art Deco style.I saw the post just as I was…
A few years ago I visited a farm in the countryside of Vietnam. The farmer had two types of pigs: he had several Vietnamese pigs, “our pigs” (lợn ta), and…
In the summer of 1972, the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa held a conference on the Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar, Wang Yangming (1472–1529).This conference was part of…
I came across a Vietnamese newspaper from the late 1930s-early 1940s called the “Tràng An Báo.” This name is interesting. “Tràng An” is usually written now as “Trường An” and…
I came across this nice image in an early issue of the journal Phong Hóa. A wife is surprised to see her husbands powdering his face, and he responds that…
In the early 1950s, some members (or employees) of the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) microfilmed some of the materials which they possessed in their library in Hanoi. One item that…
I haven't had much time recently to post anything new here. I'm still busy, but I thought I would post a document which some people might find interesting. It's a…