Cause and Effect and Forgotten Books in Vietnam
There are numerous old books (dating from before the twentieth century) that one can find in Vietnam that originally came from China. In some cases, these books were brought from…
Researching the Savage Frontier in Vietnamese History
I recently wrote (here) about a concordance tool that I was able to get to work with the Hán (i.e., classical Chinese) text of the Đại Việt sử ký toàn…
The Multiple Meanings of Khe Sanh
The Battle of Khe Sanh was an extended conflict that took place in Quang Tri Province in the first half of 1968. A few weeks ago in Vietnam there were…
A Review of “A Thousand Years of Caps and Robes”
I’ve been meaning to write a more formal review of Trần Quang Đức’s A Thousand Years of Caps and Robes (Ngàn năm áo mũ). The customary manner to write such…
The Three Teachings (Tam Giáo) and Anxiety
I often read and hear people say that the intermixture of, and equal respect for, the “three teachings” (tam giáo 三教) is something that defined Vietnamese society in the past.…
Embarrassment and the Writing of Southeast Asian History
Buddhist-Muslim violence is taking place in Burma right now. I haven’t followed this issue closely, but at first it looked to me like a localized issue in the Rakhine State.…
Visualizing Daoism in Trần Dynasty Vietnam
I’m reading a book called Computers, Visualization, and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past by David J. Staley. This is how the book is summarized…
A New Vietnamese History
A few days ago someone pointed out to me that a new general history called A History of the Vietnamese by Keith Taylor is now listed on Amazon, and is…
Critiquing Monographs, Encyclopedias and Dissertations
I’ve been in situations where I have been amazed at what I see as an almost encyclopedic knowledge that many Vietnamese scholars have about the work of other Vietnamese scholars.…
Sinicization, Localization and Big-Same-Small-Different
As is well known, during the colonial period, various European scholars came to envision a process in the past where Southeast Asia came to be influenced by outside forces. In…
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