Medieval Vietnamese Invented Traditions
Kinh Dương Vương as a Medieval Invented Tradition
King Kinh Dương (i.e., 涇陽王, Kinh Dương Vương) is an interesting historical figure. There are no records of him in Chinese sources. He is entirely
May 16, 2010
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Why Was Hoa Lư a “Grotto”?
I noticed in the Đại Việt Sử Ký Toàn Thư that Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, the founder of the Đinh Dynasty, was from a place called
May 6, 2010
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Premodern Vietnamese Plagiarism
Well I just made a “discovery” only to find that someone else has already made the same discovery. This happens to me a lot. I
May 1, 2010
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Ngô Thì Sĩ and Distant Antiquity
The other day I came across this passage in a nineteenth-century Vietnamese geographical text, the Lê triều cống pháp 黎朝貢法 (A.53, pages 1b-2a). This is
April 4, 2010
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