Vietnam and China
Vietnam and China
Need to explain how this category differs from the one on “Sino-Vietnamese Historical Issues.”
Historicizing the Ngô
I’ve long argued that the 15th century document, the “Bình Ngô đại cáo” (Great Proclamation on Pacifying the Ngô), does not represent a “declaration of
“The Annam Maiden” and a Chinese Call for Asian Unity in 1943
I recently came across a poem in Chinese that was written by Yan Jieren 嚴杰人 in 1943 called “The Annam Maiden” (Annan Nulang 安南女郎). Yan
Why the Field of Vietnamese History Needs a Joseph Levenson
I’ve said many times that the most important moment in Vietnamese history, in my opinion, is the early twentieth century, because it is the time
Documenting the Destruction of Bronze Drums
There are a couple of bronze drums that have been found in the Red River delta that have Chinese characters on them. One of them
The Yue/Việt Migration Theory and the “Hidden Network Approach”
There was a theory that emerged in the early twentieth century which argued that at the end of the first millennium BC, Vietnamese migrated to
Seeing Chinese Domination in the Vietnamese Past
A reader asked where the idea that the millennium when the Red River Delta was part of various “Chinese” empires can be seen as something
Trần Quốc Vượng and Disrespect for the Past
I was reading an essay by the late Trần Quốc Vượng in which he talked about Vietnamese and Chinese culture. Trần Quốc Vượng states at
The Yao/Dao, the Việt and the Impossibility of Thoát Trung (Escaping from China)
I spent some time today looking through a journal that was published in Hanoi in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries called Revue Indo-Chinoise. This was
Vietnamese, Japanese, Formosan Coolies and the U.S.S. Pargo in the Paracel Islands in World War II
Given that things are heating up now that the PRC is attempting to set up an oil rig in an area of the sea that
An Overseas Chinese Who Died for Vietnamese Independence in 1945
I was reading the newspaper, The Truth (Sự Thật, 7/12/46), and found an article about “An Overseas Chinese Intellectual Who Died for the Independence of
Sinicization and Hán Hóa
I’ve been doing some reading on the concept of Sinicization. It’s interesting to see that while the term has been widely used, very little effort
Chiang Kai-shek and Vietnam in 1945
Last year I wrote a post (here) in which I tried to refute the idea that Hò Chí Minh said in the late 1940s that
