Population in 15th-Century Vietnam – What We Don’t Know
From the late 1980s into the early 2000s, there was a trend in the field of early modern Asian history to write synthetic volumes that tried to document economic and…
This Should Be The Revision Age!!
One point that I keep bringing up, but I don’t find it getting recognized, is the fact that the capabilities that we now have when we conduct research in the…
Foreign Knowledge Production about Vietnam and Nhậu: A Theorization
For the past 20+ years, I’ve watched Vietnam change dramatically. Now as I visit the country after a three-year absence because of the COVID pandemic, I can see that yet…
“Reverse Academic Dependency” in English-Language Writings on Premodern Vietnam (+ Free Article!!)
The Journal of Historical Sociology has just published a special issue that contains an interesting article on English-language scholarship on premodern Vietnamese history.Entitled “Academic Dependency Theory and the Politics of…
Why We Know So Little About Premodern Vietnamese Popular Religion
In the previous post I praised a recent article by Cuong Mai on premodern Vietnamese popular religion. What I particularly liked about it is the way that Cuong identified and…
A Really Great Article on (Premodern) Vietnamese Religion
I just read a really good article. It is entitled “The Karma of Love: Buddhist Karmic Discourses in Confucian and Daoist Voices in Vietnamese Tales of the Marvelous and Uncanny”…
Following the Footnotes
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Phan Văn Hùm, a Vietnamese journalist and intellectual who, among many other achievements, produced a book about the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming in…
Kelley on Vietnamese History, Area Studies & Asian Studies
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). . . and we talked about his research…