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Theo Chân Trần Quang Đức/Following Trần Quang Đức #2

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Post published:January 20, 2015
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History, Bored Students and Chinese Men Without Pants in Vietnam

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:January 19, 2015
Post category:Vietnam
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Every summer when the college entrance exams are held, the Vietnamese media is filled with articles that lament the fact that students are not interested in history. Then every time…

Theo Chân Trần Quang Đức/Following Trần Quang Đức #1

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Post published:January 16, 2015
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Following Trần Quang Đức

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:January 11, 2015
Post category:Vietnam YouTube video
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Continuing in my effort to bring academic ideas and knowledge to YouTube, I’ve decided to make a series of videos, in collaboration with Phan Lê Hà, that focus on a…

Sexual Intercourse, Water Buffalos, Elephants, Daggers and Đông Sơn Culture

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:January 10, 2015
Post category:Southeast Asia Vietnam
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So I visited the History Museum in Hanoi a few weeks ago where they currently have a small (but wonderful) exhibit marking 70 years since the discovery of the first…

The Idea of a Vietnamese Pantheon

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:December 13, 2014
Post category:Vietnam
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I was reading a review of Keith Taylor’s A History of the Vietnamese that appeared in the journal Sojourn (29.3 [2014]: 738-53) in which an historian argues that Taylor went…

Bombing Distilleries in World War II Indochina

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:December 11, 2014
Post category:Cambodia Vietnam WWII and after in Southeast Asia
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I recently came across a report that the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) prepared during World War II on “Selected Industrial Sites in Indo-China.” In seeing this title, I assumed…

The Three Teachings (Tam Giáo) in Vietnam

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:December 7, 2014
Post category:Vietnam
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One topic about the Vietnamese past that I find is poorly understood is the issue of the “Three Teachings” (Tam giáo) of Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism. I just did a…

Working Women and Exploitative States in Premodern Southeast Asia

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:November 29, 2014
Post category:Southeast Asia Thailand Vietnam
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As the field of Southeast Asian Studies developed (particularly in North America and Australia) in the second half of the twentieth century, one of the ideas that came to be…

Searching for the Trưng Sisters and Rain (Part 4)

Post author:Le Minh Khai
Post published:November 25, 2014
Post category:Vietnam YouTube video
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZwd1_JwGuE&feature=youtu.be Transcript: Late afternoon in Hanoi in July. A day after going to the Trưng sisters’ temple in Mê Linh to pray for rain, it still hasn’t rained. In fact,…