I was looking around in a searchable version of the Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times (Gujin tushu jicheng 古今圖書集成), an encyclopedic collection of…
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…
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…
In looking around in the Online Public Access page of the US National Archives, I came across a declassified CIA report from 1950 that was speculating about whether or not…
No, the late American comedian George Carlin never talked about Vietnamese history, as far as I know, but I wish he had. Today I got distracted (it happens a lot)…
Last year I wrote a post (here) in which I tried to refute the idea that Hò Chí Minh said in the late 1940s that “I prefer to sniff French…