Vietnam and China
Vietnam and China
Need to explain how this category differs from the one on “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
Chang’an News from Vietnam
I came across a Vietnamese newspaper from the late 1930s-early 1940s called the “Tràng An Báo.” This name is interesting. “Tràng An” is usually written
Vietnamese Schools in China in the 1950s-1970s
Earlier this year as part of the “Vietnam ‘67” series of essays that appeared in the New York Times, historian Olga Dror published a piece
The Rise of (Historical Scholarship on Vietnam in) China
I recently gained access to a database of PhD dissertations and MA theses in China. Out of curiosity, I did a search for “越南” (Vietnam)
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
A Musical.ly Review of “The People between the Rivers”
There is a wonderful book by Catherine Churchman coming out in a couple of weeks called The People between the Rivers: The Rise and Fall
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
Phan Bội Châu, the Later Trần and the Ngô
I love the early twentieth century, as that is when the Vietnamese worldview started to change dramatically, and the documents from that period make that
Who Were the Ngô?
Responding to a call from “Jacques from France,” Dr. K. and guest The Midnight Dreamer discuss the question of “Who were the Ngô?” on the
The Ngô in the Dư Địa Chí were not the Ming
There is a fifteenth-century document that is today very famous in Vietnam. It is called the “Bình Ngô đại cáo” (The Great Proclamation on Pacifying
Trần Trọng Dương on De-Sinicization
In this video Trần Trọng Dương talks about the effort of some Vietnamese scholars to interpret the past in ways that they hope will distance
Lý Văn Phức’s Barbarian Guesthouse Slam
In 1831 the Nguyễn Dynasty official, Lý Văn Phức, escorted some stranded Chinese sailors back to Fujian province. When he arrived there, the guesthouse where
Who Were the Ancient Yue/Việt?
The above video is meant to introduce a new book – Erica Fox Brindley’s Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern
Trần Trọng Kim, Hu Shi (Hồ Thích) and the Yijing
I’ve long wondered why the Yijing (the Classic/Book of Changes) is so important for ultra-nationalist ideas in Vietnam. Extreme nationalists in Vietnam today regard the
Giặc Bắc đến xâm lược!: Translations and Exclamation Points
In the post below, I wrote about some information in an inscription that was inscribed on a bell at a Daoist temple in the Red
The “Important People” in the Annan Zhiyuan
The Annan zhiyuan, a fifteenth-century gazetteer of the greater Red River Delta region that Ming Dynasty officials created contains a section on “people” (人物), or
Trần Ích Tắc and the Crimes of Wikipedia/Nationalist History
Today I read about Trần Ích Tắc on Wikipedia. Trần Ích Tắc was a Trần Dynasty prince who submitted to the Mongols when they attacked
A Ming Inspiration for the Bình Ngô Đại Cáo?
When it comes to the period of the Ming occupation of the Red River delta in the fifteenth century, there is one source that is
