Hard Drives
I recently made an international move. In preparation for moving, I copied all of the important files from all of the computers and hard drives that I had onto a…
Bluesky, Listening, and Scholarship
When I think back on life, I realize that one of the most formative experiences that I had growing up was the time I spent listening.I grew up on a…
Le Minh Khai Exposed!!!
Well, no, that’s not what this post is actually about.Instead, it’s just that I recently published a new article in which I “expose” some of what I think about academia,…
Why We Know So Little About Premodern Vietnamese Popular Religion
In the previous post I praised a recent article by Cuong Mai on premodern Vietnamese popular religion. What I particularly liked about it is the way that Cuong identified and…
That Graduate Student. . . S/he’s Coming!!
Whenever I write something for publication, I always think about “that graduate student.”Who is that graduate student?It’s the intelligent and talented person who is going to appear in the future.…
Dismissing China/the Chinese in the Field of Southeast Asian History (in the English-Speaking World)
I have written and talked in the past about how I think that the generation that developed the field of Southeast Asian history in the English-speaking world in the 1960s…
10 Years (+1) of Le Minh Khai
It recently dawned on me that it must be time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Le Minh Khai’s SEAsian History Blog.” Then I checked and realized that I began…
Premodern Southeast Asian Imperialism, Decolonizing Historical Knowledge, and the Liberal Bias in Western Historical Scholarship
In researching about “Srivijaya” recently, I have been reading about Southeast Asian history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and I’ve come to realize something that I had not thought…