LMK Vlog #09: Reading The End of Concern
I’ve been reading a new, and very interesting, book called The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies (Duke 2017) by Fabio Lanza. It is about a group…
LMK Vlog #08: The Son of Heaven (Thiên tử 天子)
It is well known that Vietnamese emperors in the past saw themselves as the “Son of Heaven” (Thiên tử 天子), that is, as the main intermediary between the supreme power…
Finding Confucianism in Vietnam (LMK Vlog #07)
Plenty has been written about Confucianism in Vietnam, but I find that the studies to date (particularly those in English) have generally not examined the types of texts that can…
This History of Vietnam Will BLOW YOUR MIND (LMK Vlog #06)
I've long said that Christopher Goscha's survey of Vietnamese history, Vietnam: A New History, will blow readers' minds. Well, here is video evidence of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPOwAVjrjRQ
Spacing Out & Goscha’s History of Vietnam (LMK Vlog #05)
This video is about the importance of spacing out, and it also comments on Christopher Goscha's "Vietnam: A New History." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQOyUgJ5GB8
Watching Vietnamese Films in Chinese (LMK Vlog #04)
This vlog introduces and discusses a 1969 film from North Vietnam called "The Front is Calling" (Tiền Tuyến Gọi). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS2rYAPGKiI
Hot Dogs & Ancient Việt Totems (LMK Vlog #03)
This week's Vlog is about totems, a book by anthropologist Đinh Hồng Hải (Những biểu tượng đặc trưng trong văn hoá truyền thống Việt Nam, tập 3: Các con vật…
Reading “Ming China and Vietnam” (LMK Vlog #02)
I recently had the pleasure of reading and writing a review of Kathlene Baldanza’s Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016). Published…
Reading Phan Bội Châu (LMK Vlog #01)
I think it's time to start Vlogging. Here is my first Vlog, on Phan Bội Châu's 1908 "Examination of Vietnamese History" (Việt Nam quốc sử kháo 越南國史考) and its Vietnamese translation.…