Vietnam

I’ve been engaged in a long discussion on Facebook about, among other things, the story of a Vietnamese spirit in Phù Đổng village known in as Saint Gióng (Thánh Gióng)…

I’m reading a book on the emergence of “early states” (nhà nước sơ khai) in the Red River Delta. This book claims to be based on archaeological evidence, but what…

Several decades ago in North America it was common for archaeologists to use historical texts to interpret and explain their findings. Then archaeologists started to realize that many historical texts…

A few years ago historian Hayden Cherry published a very nice article which among other things talked about the early years of archaeology in French Indochina. [“Digging up the Past:…

I’ve said many times before that the most important period for understanding all of Vietnamese history is the one period that has been studied the least – the early twentieth…

Not long after many colonized peoples around the globe gained independence in the middle of the twentieth century, some scholars started to notice that in many ways colonialism still existed,…

The text that I mentioned in the previous post, the An Nam chí nguyên, contains an entry on Mount Tản Viên which talks about a spirit there called Mị Nương…