I Am Sitting in a Room and the Lạc Việt Created the Kinh Dịch
“I Am Sitting in a Room” is a very famous piece of experimental music which composer Alvin Lucier created in 1969. What Lucier did was to record himself reciting a…
The An Nam chí nguyên/Annan zhiyuan
A couple of years ago I posted about a book that is essential for understanding Vietnamese history which very few people have read or even know about, the An Nam…
Calligraphy and Stone Inscriptions: An Outing with Tiếu Chi (Nguyễn Hữu Sử) – Part Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTwVJiExR_k&feature=youtu.be Video này không có phụ đề, nhưng chỉ cần biết tiếng Anh hoặc tiếng Viết là có thể hiểu được. This video is half in English and half in…
Calligraphy and Stone Inscriptions: An Outing with Tiếu Chi (Nguyễn Hữu Sử) – Part One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZW85PKePKs Video này không có phụ đề, nhưng chỉ cần biết tiếng Anh hoặc tiếng Viết là có thể hiểu được. This video is half in English and half in…
Calligraphy and Young People: A Conversation with Independent Scholar Trần Quang Đức
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WvMmjqmpm4 This video is half in English and half in Vietnamese. The parts in English explain what is said in the parts in Vietnamese. Video này không có phụ đề,…
Remixing the Past: Milk & Passion in a Time of War
This morning I was browsing through the digitized video and audio files that the Virtual Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University has placed online and decided to make a “mashup”…
On Loving Vietnam, Rectangular Tables, Big Chairs and the Relics of Cold War Culture
There was an article a couple of days ago in the newspaper Dân Trí about the Vietnamese fetish for hearing foreigners say that they love Vietnam. Apparently when Manchester City…
Visions of Modernity in French Indochina
I recently discovered that the French Archives nationales de outré-mer has digitized a treasure trove of historical photographs from France’s former colonial possessions and has made those images available online…
The Exchange of Women (trao đổi đàn bà) in Obscure History (huyền sử)
In his book, The Philosophy of the Communal House (Triết Lý Cái Đình), Kim Định has a chapter entitled “The Three Strata of Communication” (Ba Giai Tầng Thông Giao) in…
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