Liễu Hạnh and Trần Hưng Đạo
I tried to experiment with Timeline JS. I couldn't get it to embed in Wordpress, and Vietnamese fonts do not look very good in it, but it’s obviously a powerful…
A Chinese Hawaiian Beauty Queen and Singaporean Satay in 1962
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii has been hosting a beauty pageant since 1950 as part of a larger event known as the Narcissus Festival. The pageant is for…
Researching the Savage Frontier in Vietnamese History
I recently wrote (here) about a concordance tool that I was able to get to work with the Hán (i.e., classical Chinese) text of the Đại Việt sử ký toàn…
Time to Take a Break
Summer is here. It's time for a vacation. I'm going to take a break from posting here for several weeks. In early August I will be back, and will do…
Equestrian Diplomacy in Thailand
I wrote a blog entry a while ago on “Bovine Diplomacy in South Vietnam” in which I talked about how the Australians sent cows to South Vietnam in the late…
Taking a Break
The holiday season is fast approaching. . . so it's time for me to find a place to hide for a while. . . I'll start posting again in January.…
Wise Words from Outsourced Spam Writers
Ok, to take a break (just this once) from being “serious,” I just noticed that this blog has a “spam” folder, and that it has some messages in it. I…