I’ve been thinking about several topics that I’ve written about before on this blog: the promotion of Vietnam’s integration into the global world of scholarship; the absence of engagement with…
I’m spending the summer reading the writings of Kim Định, a Catholic priest, philosopher and historian who wrote extensively in the 1960s and early 1970s in South Vietnam. In reading…
Michigan State University (MSU) recently announced a “soft launch” of a digital archive that some people at MSU are creating to document materials produced and collected by a technical assistance…
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Chầu văn is a type of Vietnamese music that one can hear during spirit séances, when mediums contact spirits. The ethnomusicologist, Barley Norton, has written a wonderful book about this…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=476skwHLcnE&feature=youtu.be This video is the result of a month or so of a lot of work spent trying to learn how to use a DSLR camera, a Zoom h4n audio…
In early 1976, a book by South Vietnamese historian Tạ Chí Đại Trường was the subject of a long critique in the journal, Historical Research (Nghiên cứu lịch sử). The…