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    Visions of Modernity in French Indochina

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:June 29, 2015
    • Post category:Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam
    • Post comments:2 Comments

    I recently discovered that the French Archives nationales de outré-mer has digitized a treasure trove of historical photographs from France’s former colonial possessions and has made those images available online…

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    Music and Power in Mainland Southeast Asia

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:October 29, 2013
    • Post category:Cambodia/Laos/Thailand
    • Post comments:9 Comments

    Recently I’ve been reading and listening to a new book with accompanying CDs called Longing for the Past: The 78 rpm Era in Southeast Asia. In the early 20th century,…

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    The Map of the Great Savage Kingdom

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:August 31, 2013
    • Post category:Laos/Thailand/Vietnam
    • Post comments:14 Comments

    A kind reader has encouraged me to look at an old Vietnamese map of the Mekong region known as the Đại Man quốc đồ 大蠻國圖 (Map of the Great Savage…

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    Sappy Love Songs and the Meaning of Mainland Southeast Asian History During the Cold War

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:August 12, 2013
    • Post category:Cambodia/Laos/Thailand/Vietnam
    • Post comments:7 Comments

    In 1966 John Denver wrote the song “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” When I was growing up, I didn't like that song. The version I heard the most when I…

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    Mapping Military Posts in French Indochina

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:April 28, 2013
    • Post category:Cambodia/Digital Southeast Asia/Laos/Vietnam
    • Post comments:0 Comments

    Following on the post below, here is an attempt at making a map of military posts in French Indochina in World War II. On the map page you can switch…

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    The Imagined Communities of the Tai Dam

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:March 8, 2013
    • Post category:Laos/Vietnam
    • Post comments:2 Comments

    I pointed out in the post below on “The Other Voices in ‘Vietnamese’ History” that in a place like the Nguyễn Dynasty empire the Việt were not the only people…

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    Smoking in 1960s Laos

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:March 29, 2012
    • Post category:Advertisements/Laos
    • Post comments:2 Comments

    Ever wonder what people in Laos were smoking in the 1960s as they cruised around in their new Mazdas? Well here is the answer. Consulate cigarettes, for one, a brand…

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    Twentieth-Century Events From a Tai Perspective

    • Post author:Le Minh Khai
    • Post published:March 17, 2012
    • Post category:Burma/Laos/Minorities
    • Post comments:2 Comments

    In the late 1940s and early 1950s two of the most important events in the twentieth century took place on the Asian mainland. In 1949 there was a revolution in…

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