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Việt-Nam Khảo-Cổ Tập-San #1

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:September 27, 2017
Post category:South Vietnamese Scholarship Vietnamese history sources
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At the beginning of 1956, the president of the Republic of Vietnam ordered the establishment of the Historical Research Institute (Viện Khảo-Cổ) under the Ministry of Education.

This institute had a broad mission. It was to research about the history and culture of Vietnam from the past to the present and to do so in a multidisciplinary manner.

In 1960 the institute began publishing a journal, the Transactions of the Historical Research Institute (Việt-Nam Khảo-Cổ Tâp-San).

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Streaming From Saigon: Hoàng Vân Nội’s Migration Theory

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:August 17, 2016
Post category:South Vietnamese Scholarship YouTube video
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This is a video about a book that was published in South Vietnam in 1974 about the origins of the Vietnamese people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbpYJ0YXvTg

Kim Định and History that “Is”

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:May 16, 2016
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The topic of the importance (or non-importance) of South Vietnamese philosopher Lương Kim Định has come up again and this has forced me to think more about this issue. I…

Lý Đông A, Lương Kim Định, Trần Ngọc Thêm and Terrien de Lacouperie’s Ancient Chinese Migration

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:April 21, 2016
Post category:Fringe History Sino-Vietnamese Historical Issues South Vietnamese Scholarship
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As I’ve mentioned numerous times on this blog, there is an idea that is of central importance to Vietnamese ultra-nationalists, and that is that in antiquity the Chinese migrated into…

Lý Đông A, Kim Định and a Mid-20th–Century Unorthodox Version of Early Việt History

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:March 29, 2016
Post category:South Vietnamese Scholarship Vietnamese Early History
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I’ve written quite a lot on this blog about the South Vietnamese philosopher, Lương Kim Định, and his ideas about history. What was Kim Định’s view of the past? In…

The Great Agricultural (Nông Nghiệp) – Pastoral (Du Mục) Divide, or how Kim Định and Trần Ngọc Thêm Distorted Will Durant’s Ideas

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:January 15, 2016
Post category:Fringe History Lương Kim Định South Vietnamese Scholarship
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One of the core tenets of Vietnamese ultranationalism is the idea that there is a fundamental division between Han Chinese and Vietnamese. In particular, the argument of Vietnamese ultranationalism is…

Remixing the Past: The Peopling of Asia (According to Kim Định)

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:August 30, 2015
Post category:Lương Kim Định Remixing the Past South Vietnamese Scholarship YouTube video
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In is 1970 work, Việt Lý Tố Nguyên, Lương Kim Định presented an outline of his understanding of the early history of East Asia. The main point that Kim Định…

The Far East at the Crossroads, According to Kim Định

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:July 4, 2015
Post category:Lương Kim Định Sino-Vietnamese Historical Issues South Vietnamese Scholarship
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At the end of his book, Việt Lý Tố Nguyên, Kim Định has a few short chapters that discuss certain political and social issues of his day that can help…

The Western Intellectual Debates Behind Kim Định’s Ideas

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:July 3, 2015
Post category:Lương Kim Định South Vietnamese Scholarship
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In reading the writings of South Vietnamese philosopher Kim Định, one point that I have found fascinating is seeing the degree to which Kim Định’s ideas were shaped by his…

Archaeology, the Mã Lai Origins of the Việt, Orientalism, Complicity in Colonial Scholarship, Confucianism as the Foundation of Việt Culture. . . All in Two Pages of a Kim Định Book

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:June 30, 2015
Post category:Lương Kim Định South Vietnamese Scholarship
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One of the things that makes reading the works of South Vietnamese philosopher Kim Định so interesting is that they are filled with ideas. Kim Định of course had his…