I spent several years in Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During that time, I had a routine where I would go into
A couple of years ago I posted about a book that is essential for understanding Vietnamese history which very few people have read or even
I recently came across a small booklet that the South Vietnamese government published in English in 1973 entitled Vietnamese Studies and Their Relationship to Asian
The following works are referenced in this video: K. W. Taylor, “How I Began to Teach about the Vietnam War,” Michigan Quarterly Review vol. 43,
Inspired by the “Bed-In for Peace” that John Lennon and Yoko Ono held in 1969, this is a “Bed-In” review of the book Misalliance: Ngo
The digitization of archival materials, newspapers, etc., is fantastic for researchers, but I also find it a bit frightening as there is undoubtedly information that
I recently started reading a new survey of Southeast Asian history by a well-known historian when I was surprised to come across this paragraph about
I wrote below about some materials that I came across in British Colonial Office records regarding some British citizens who sought a license to lease
In is 1970 work, Việt Lý Tố Nguyên, Lương Kim Định presented an outline of his understanding of the early history of East Asia. The
I recently came across a poem in Chinese that was written by Yan Jieren 嚴杰人 in 1943 called “The Annam Maiden” (Annan Nulang 安南女郎). Yan
Following up on the previous post, I found some more information about the case of certain British citizens wishing to lease some islands in the
I was looking at some microfilms that contain records from the British Colonial Office. The ones that I have access to have largely melted over
I was at a conference this summer where someone made a good presentation about the existing scholarship on the “Indianization” of Southeast Asia, that is,
Video này không có phụ đề, nhưng chỉ cần biết tiếng Anh hoặc tiếng Viết là có thể hiểu được. This video is half in
Video này không có phụ đề, nhưng chỉ cần biết tiếng Anh hoặc tiếng Viết là có thể hiểu được. This video is half in
This video is half in English and half in Vietnamese. The parts in English explain what is said in the parts in Vietnamese. Video này
This morning I was browsing through the digitized video and audio files that the Virtual Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University has placed online and
There was an article a couple of days ago in the newspaper Dân Trí about the Vietnamese fetish for hearing foreigners say that they love
On a recent trip to Malaysia I visited an exhibition on Textile Tales of Pua Kumbu at the University of Malaya Art Gallery that really
At the end of his book, Việt Lý Tố Nguyên, Kim Định has a few short chapters that discuss certain political and social issues of
In reading the writings of South Vietnamese philosopher Kim Định, one point that I have found fascinating is seeing the degree to which Kim Định’s
I’ve said many times that the most important moment in Vietnamese history, in my opinion, is the early twentieth century, because it is the time
One of the things that makes reading the works of South Vietnamese philosopher Kim Định so interesting is that they are filled with ideas. Kim
I recently discovered that the French Archives nationales de outré-mer has digitized a treasure trove of historical photographs from France’s former colonial possessions and has
In his book, The Philosophy of the Communal House (Triết Lý Cái Đình), Kim Định has a chapter entitled “The Three Strata of Communication” (Ba
As I stated in an earlier post, structural anthropologists like Claude Lévi-Strauss sought to employ a “synchronic” (hàng dọc) approach to the study of human
I’ve been thinking about several topics that I’ve written about before on this blog: the promotion of Vietnam’s integration into the global world of scholarship;
In his 1973 work, Việt Nho Structure (Cơ Cấu Việt Nho), Kim Định introducted the theory of structuralism to his readers. Relying heavily on information
I’m spending the summer reading the writings of Kim Định, a Catholic priest, philosopher and historian who wrote extensively in the 1960s and early 1970s
It’s time to contemplate the meaning of life. . . or maybe just to get some work done rather than make videos all the time.
Michigan State University (MSU) recently announced a “soft launch” of a digital archive that some people at MSU are creating to document materials produced and
The term “huyền sử,” which means something like “obscure history,” is a term that one can find in Vietnamese writings from the late twentieth century
The idea that Bangkok is a center of sex tourism is something that is now widely known. If I remember correctly, the first time I
I created a series of videos to critique some core ideas in the field of Southeast Asian Studies. Introduction: The Mandala: The Man of Prowess:
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
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
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
As an historian, not only do I enjoy learning about the past, but I also have a strong desire to travel back in time to
I have been learning a lot about making music in the digital age recently, and one aspect of making music today that I find fascinating
