Beautiful Saigon, Cambodian Girls and Cathay Pacific Airlines
There is a very famous Vietnamese song from the 1960s written by Y Vân called “Saigon is Beautiful” (Sài Gòn đẹp lắm). I remember being in Bangkok a few years…
Orientalism and Postage Stamps in French Indochina
A Vietnamese translation of Edward Said’s Orientalism has apparently just been published. That book became very influential after it first appeared in 1978, becoming a foundational text for the field…
Behind Each Great French Scholar in Indochina. . .
I have long known that the Yale University Library holds materials from the private collection of French scholar Maurice Durand, however I just realized today that some of these materials…
Indochinese Subaltern Cosmopolitanism
In many histories, members of the elite are usually portrayed as the people who brought change to society. In the case of Vietnam, for instance, intellectuals like Phan Bội Châu…
Banning Women in Bondage and Dragon Seed in French Indochina
I found a list of American movies that were banned in French Indochina in 1949-1951. It’s interesting to see the kinds of things that the colonial censors did not want…
A Lost Opportunity or Opportunism in 1945 Vietnam?
One idea that has been expressed a lot is the idea that the US lost an opportunity in 1945 when Truman did not respond to any of Hồ Chí Minh’s…
Conquest and Intermarriage in the Formation of the Annam Race
The concept of race is a concept that Vietnamese only came to learn about in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Once they had, some people tried to figure…
Mattie Calogreedy, Anna Leonowens and Marie Vannier – Hapa Women at Mainland Southeast Asian Courts in the Nineteenth Century
The story of the overthrow of the Konbaung Dynasty by the British in the late nineteenth century is a complex one, but a simplified explanation of the events of that…
Filial-Romantic-Marxist-Wartime Nationalism and Early Vietnamese History
In the 1950s, scholars in North Vietnam started drafting a new history. They ran into troubles, however, in trying to write about early history because 1) there were not many…
The Ancient Vietnamese Matriarchy and Western Theory
I keep coming across writings that claim that there was a matriarchal society in the Red River Delta at some point in the distant past that was later replaced by…
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