https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm-JiKiyFSE&feature=youtu.be Things people say can not be trusted, Gender is a category, socially constructed. (In) Southeast Asia, they got all kinds, Not just two, yours and mine. Those ladyboys, they…
Chầu văn is a type of Vietnamese music that one can hear during spirit séances, when mediums contact spirits. The ethnomusicologist, Barley Norton, has written a wonderful book about this…
As it became clear that the Chinese Communists would gain control of the mainland in 1949, many members of Shanghai’s film industry relocated to Hong Kong. Hong Kong already had…
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Continuing in my effort to bring academic ideas and knowledge to YouTube, I’ve decided to make a series of videos, in collaboration with Phan Lê Hà, that focus on a…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZwd1_JwGuE&feature=youtu.be Transcript: Late afternoon in Hanoi in July. A day after going to the Trưng sisters’ temple in Mê Linh to pray for rain, it still hasn’t rained. In fact,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSjowhZZ8nI&feature=youtu.be Transcript: Morning in Hanoi in July. I get up early to try to get some work done, to beat the heat, but then the power goes out. Apparently there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3Jh4KNpm4&feature=youtu.be Transcript: Late afternoon in Hanoi in July. Although it’s still incredibly hot, there are a lot of people out exercising. I suppose it’s good to sweat your brains out…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRVz00zeha8 Transcript: Hanoi in July. . . It’s hot! It’s really really hot!! About the only people out on the street are people on motorcycles and they are just going…