Sino-Vietnamese Historical Issues
New Article – “Sinology in Vietnam”
An article that I wrote a year or two ago has just been published. It is called “Sinology in Vietnam.” There are people who would
Reading “Ming China and Vietnam” (LMK Vlog #02)
I recently had the pleasure of reading and writing a review of Kathlene Baldanza’s Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia (Cambridge:
4. Going Backwards: Cherry Picking Outdated Information
In his Việt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present, Ben Kiernan argues that in the early history of Vietnam there were two
Revisiting Norman and Mei’s Austroasiatic-Speakers in Ancient South China
In 1976, linguists Jerry Norman and Tsu-Lin Mei published an influential article entitled “The Austroasiatics in Ancient South China: Some Lexical Evidence.” In this article,
3. Going Backwards: The Yue Migration Theory
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French missionaries, military officials and scholars all asked questions about the Vietnamese that the Vietnamese had never
Who Were the Yue?
In her Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c. 400 BC-50 CE, historian Erica Brindley opens the book with
Đào Duy Anh and ROC Intellectual Influence in Colonial Vietnam
One of the (many) problems with the way that modern Vietnamese history has been written about (both by historians inside and outside of Vietnam) is
Hồ Chí Minh and China’s Destiny
I was reading a newspaper from Republican China today called the Central Daily (Zhongyang ribao 中央日報). On 19 May 1946 it published a brief article
A Review of “The People between the Rivers”
In 1976, Edward Schafer published a book about “the South” in the medieval Chinese imagination called The Vermilion Bird: T’ang Images of the South. Filled
Lý Đông A, Lương Kim Định, Trần Ngọc Thêm and Terrien de Lacouperie’s Ancient Chinese Migration
As I’ve mentioned numerous times on this blog, there is an idea that is of central importance to Vietnamese ultra-nationalists, and that is that in
The Far East at the Crossroads, According to Kim Định
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
What is so Important about Thời Bắc Thuộc?
In many histories of Vietnam, there is a period that is referred to as “thời Bắc thuộc” or “the period of Chinese rule.” This term
Gia Long the Ming Descendant
Yesterday a bright young scholar offered me one idea he has as for why the Nguyễn Dynasty referred to themselves and some other people in
August 1966
I was looking at an August 1966 issue of the magazine China Reconstructs. The first two articles in that issue dealt with Vietnam, and were
History and Anti-Foreign Discourses
The temperature is rising in Asia these days, and it has a lot to do with two countries that are very closely related but that
Chen Fu’s Visit to Đại Việt in 1293
I mentioned in the post below about the various Lý Công Uẩn films that there is an account that a Chinese envoy who visited Đại
Nationalist Victim Narratives in China and Vietnam
Recently there have been anti-Japan demonstrations in China, and anti-China demonstrations in Vietnam. These demonstrations in both instances are related to issues about certain uninhabited
Mân People and Đại Việt
Everyone knows that “Vietnam” supposedly gained “independence” from “Chinese” rule in the tenth century CE. After that, however, we run into problems. There are Chinese
Sovereignty, Maps, etc.
To understand the past we have to know the history of ideas. If we do not know when the ideas we have about the world
The Red Chinese Colonization of North Vietnam
Did you know that the Communist Chinese colonized North Vietnam? That is what the Vietnam Press (Việt Nam Thông Tấn Xã) in South Vietnam reported
