Digital
Southeast
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History in the AI Age: A Self-Reflection
In the spring of 1994, during my first year of graduate school, I took a seminar on Chinese Intellectual History. In that seminar, in addition
Digital Humanities, Bronze Drums and Buffaloes
Dông Sơn bronze drums are today a symbol of Vietnam. The images of bronze drums and the details on them (birds, etc.) can be found
Hồ Chí Minh, Wikipedia, Blogs and Knowledge Production in the Digital Age
One of the reasons why I decided to start writing this blog back in 2010 was in order to share some of the things that
Shit People Say About [Country Name] History – or, History in the Age of YouTube
A decade or so ago, whenever I was preparing to teach a class in a course that I had already taught a few times, I
Mapping Military Posts in French Indochina
Following on the post below, here is an attempt at making a map of military posts in French Indochina in World War II. On the
Mapping the “Ban” in Colonial-Era Vietnam
A few days ago I wrote an entry about a secret report about Caodaism from 1944. I found that report in a text called the
Southeast Asian History Through Ngrams
In 2010, Google released its “Ngram Viewer” which allows people to search through many of the millions of books that it has scanned and to
Text Mining the Đại Việt Sử Ký Toàn Thư
There is an emerging “field” in places like North America and Europe that people are calling the “Digital Humanities.” People who work in this field
Hồ Chí Minh and Wikipedia
Following on the entry below, I came across a reference to a kind of search engine called WolframAlpha. Actually, the folks behind this project say
