I was looking around in a searchable version of the Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times (Gujin tushu jicheng 古今圖書集成), an encyclopedic collection of…
I came across a report from October 1945 that was created by the US State Department. It contains biographies of nationalists in Indochina. In the fall of 1945, Ho Chi…
[A few days ago I posted this piece, but then I deleted it because I thought people might see it as too negative. My intent in writing this piece, however,…
I was looking at an issue of Phụ nữ tân văn (Women’s News) from 1934 and came across an article written by a certain Nguyễn Thị Manh Manh about a…
I came across a wonderful picture on Facebook today. This is Prince Maung Maung Gyi, a member of the (deposed) royal family of Burma. Not knowing anything about this man,…
Looking through some of the newspapers that the National Library of Vietnam has digitized, I came across a weekly newspaper called Sông Hương (Perfume River). In its first issue, published…
I recently found out that the National Library of Vietnam has digitized some newspapers. They’ve done a very good job, and it is wonderful to be able to read these…
I was looking around in the Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive when I came across an issue of a magazine called “Life in Vietnam.” This was clearly a magazine that…
I was looking around in the Texas Tech Virtual Vietnam Archive when I found quite a few materials that were from an organization called the American Friends of Vietnam (AFV).…
Today I was looking at a work that was published in 1985, the History of Vietnam (Lịch sử Việt Nam). The first chapter deals with archaeological information and the second…