Teaching the Nation in 1969 North Vietnam
There is a 1969 North Vietnamese movie that I liked called The Highland Female Teacher (Cô giáo vùng cao). It’s about a 19 year-old Hmong woman who is sent up…
The “Việt Nam Trung Hoa” Song
A reader pointed out that the melody and lyrics for the song that I included in the post below, “Việt Nam Trung Hoa,” was published in Nhân dân on September…
Sino-Vietnamese Relations in Film and Song
I was reading the Renmin ribao 人民日报 (People’s Daily) and came across a reference to a 1971 film called “The Visit to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam by a Delegation…
Chen Jinghe and the Historical Document Translation Project at the University of Hue
I was looking around in the Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive when I found quite a few materials that were from an organization called the American Friends of Vietnam (AFV).…
South Vietnam and the Free Chinese World
I was looking at an issue of a kind of magazine/newsletter that the South Vietnamese Embassy in the US used to publish called Viet-Nam Bulletin. In 1969 there was an…
The Diary of an Infiltrator
Looking around more in the Virtual Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University I came across a short English-language text from 1966 called Diary of an Infiltrator. It is not actually…
Singing “Ode to the Motherland” on the Hồ Chí Minh Trail
I was looking around in the Virtual Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University today when I started to come across “infiltrator diaries.” That is how the diaries of North Vietnamese…
SVN Army Behavior Posters from the 1950s
I came across a series of seven “Army Behavior Posters” in the US National Archives that were created in the 1950s by the United States Information Service (but it was…
USIS Posters for the South Vietnamese Military
In the US National Archives I came across these posters that were made by the United States Information Service in support of the South Vietnamese military. “Helping the people in…
Bombs, Scientists and the Call of the Front in 1969 North Vietnam
I was looking through the Imperial War Museum again and came across this picture of a “BLU-3 anti-personnel (‘Pineapple’) Bomblet.” I was immediately reminded of a scene in a movie…