North Vietnamese Scholarship
The Long Shadow of a “Family Crime” in the Field of History in 1950s North Vietnam
The 1950s in North Vietnam witnessed a great deal of debate in the field of historical scholarship about how to produce a postcolonial history for
Modern Vietnamese Historians and the “Dân Tộc” Question
In the nineteenth century when reformist Japanese scholars sought to learn about the West, they had to come up with many new terms in order
Writing History and Denouncing an Historian in 1950s North Vietnam
In 1958, North Vietnamese scholar Văn Tân published an article in the journal Văn Sử Địa entitled “Contributing to the Building of a General History
Interrogating Đào Duy Anh: A Tokyo Love Story
Once again Lê Minh Khải was transported in time, this time to Japan where he was asked about historians who had worked for a pro-Japanese
Interrogating Đào Duy Anh: Everything’s Bigger in Texas
Michelle/Natasha and Lê Minh Khải went to a meeting with an American intelligence official named Hank (a friend of Papa François) where they talked about
Interrogating Đào Duy Anh: One Night in Tunis
Having rescued Lê Minh Khải from Dr. Wu, Natasha takes him to meet her Papa in Tunisia where they talk about the declining influence of
Interrogating Đào Duy Anh: Dr. Wu’s Shoes
Lê Minh Khải is again transported back in time and forced to answer questions about Vietnamese historian Đào Duy Anh’s scholarship. This time he ends
Interrogating Đào Duy Anh: From Moscow With Love (Part 2)
This video contains some more discussion of some of the conclusions that Đào Duy Anh reaches in his 1938 work, An Historical Outline of Vietnamese
Interrogating Đào Duy Anh: From Moscow With Love (Part 1)
This video contains a discussion of some of the conclusions that Đào Duy Anh reaches in his 1938 work, An Historical Outline of Vietnamese Culture
Đào Duy Anh’s (French) Characterization of Vietnamese Intellectual Inferiority
In his 1938 work, An Historical Outline of Vietnamese Culture (Việt Nam văn hóa sử cương), Vietnamese historian Đào Duy Anh tried to do something
Dancing With Đào Duy Anh: Vidalian Geography
This video relates to this blog post on the influence of the ideas of French geographer Paul Vidal de La Blache on Vietnamese historian Đào
Đào Duy Anh and Vidalian Geography
As the previous post demonstrated, while it is clear that in writing his An Historical Outline of Vietnamese Culture (Việt Nam văn hóa sử cương,
Dancing With Đào Duy Anh: Modern Chinese Scholarship
This video relates to this blog post on the influence of scholarship from the Republic of China on Vietnamese historian Đào Duy Anh’s 1938 work,
Dancing With Đào Duy Anh: Introduction
Get ready for a video series on the historical scholarship of the great twentieth-century Vietnamese scholar Đào Duy Anh. . .
The Premodern Past that Haunts Modern Vietnamese
There at it again. For the past few days Vietnamese cyberspace has been filled with articles and discussions about whether Chinese characters (chữ Hán) should
Filial-Romantic-Marxist-Wartime Nationalism and Early Vietnamese History
In the 1950s, scholars in North Vietnam started drafting a new history. They ran into troubles, however, in trying to write about early history because
The Western Expression of Vietnamese Traditions in 1960s North Vietnam
I was reading an article in Nhân dân that prime minister Phạm Văn Đồng wrote in 1969 on the occasion of the death anniversary of
The Politicization of Archaeology in 1960s North Vietnam
Archaeology garners a lot of respect in Vietnam. It is seen as being much more “scientific” (khoa học) than a field like history, as historical
What’s so “Colonial” about Colonial-Era Scholarship?
I came across an article that Đào Duy Anh published in 1954 in the journal Văn Sử Địa. In this article, Đào Duy Anh argues
The Disappearance of Class Contradictions and Struggle in Vietnamese Folk Literature
I was trying to figure out when the idea of the “folk” (dân gian) started to be used by scholars in Vietnam. In looking at
