South Vietnamese Scholarship
Việt-Nam Khảo-Cổ Tập-San #1
At the beginning of 1956, the president of the Republic of Vietnam ordered the establishment of the Historical Research Institute (Viện Khảo-Cổ) under the Ministry
Streaming From Saigon: Hoàng Vân Nội’s Migration Theory
This is a video about a book that was published in South Vietnam in 1974 about the origins of the Vietnamese people.
Kim Định and History that “Is”
The topic of the importance (or non-importance) of South Vietnamese philosopher Lương Kim Định has come up again and this has forced me to think
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
Lý Đông A, Kim Định and a Mid-20th–Century Unorthodox Version of Early Việt History
I’ve written quite a lot on this blog about the South Vietnamese philosopher, Lương Kim Định, and his ideas about history. What was Kim Định’s
The Great Agricultural (Nông Nghiệp) – Pastoral (Du Mục) Divide, or how Kim Định and Trần Ngọc Thêm Distorted Will Durant’s Ideas
One of the core tenets of Vietnamese ultranationalism is the idea that there is a fundamental division between Han Chinese and Vietnamese. In particular, the
Remixing the Past: The Peopling of Asia (According to Kim Định)
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
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
The Western Intellectual Debates Behind Kim Định’s Ideas
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
Archaeology, the Mã Lai Origins of the Việt, Orientalism, Complicity in Colonial Scholarship, Confucianism as the Foundation of Việt Culture. . . All in Two Pages of a Kim Định Book
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
Kim Định’s Diachronic Synchronic Approach to Studying the Past
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
Kim Định, Zhuangzi and Lévi-Strauss
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
Kim Định’s Concept of Huyền Sử
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 Emotional Appeal of Lương Kim Định
On 14 July there was apparently a seminar in Hanoi to honor the work of philosopher Lương Kim Định on the occasion of the 15th
Nguyễn Phương on the Origins of the Vietnamese Nation
Nguyễn Phương was a Catholic priest and historian who worked at the University of Hue in the 1960s. In 1965 he published a book entitled
The Indonesian Masters of Đông Sơn Culture
I haven’t had much time to post to this blog recently. I still don’t have much time, but I’m putting up this article here for
