Vietnamese Historical Scholarship
This Should Be The Revision Age!!
One point that I keep bringing up, but I don’t find it getting recognized, is the fact that the capabilities that we now have when
Popular Confucianism/Culture in Premodern Vietnam
If there is one topic in Vietnamese history that I think people today have the hardest time understanding it is the topic of “Confucianism.” Why
Local Spirits and “Nguyễn Dynasty Religion”
Several months ago, or maybe longer, I downloaded a new article that I wanted to read, but I’ve only now had time to do so.
The Lạc Việt – The Ancestors of BOTH the Việt AND the Zhuang?
I recently co-wrote an article with my colleague, anthropologist Đinh Hồng Hải, on the “Lạc Việt” (Chn., Luoyue). This is a name that appears in
Tạ Đức, Cao Sơn, Bronze Drums, Nationalism and History
A friend recently scanned and sent me some pages from a new book by Vietnamese author Tạ Đức on bronze drums in Vietnam called The
The Problem of “Textual Drift” in Studies on Premodern Vietnamese History
There is a new survey of Vietnamese history that has just been published. It is a book by Yale professor Ben Kiernan called Việt Nam:
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
WTXT: Resistance Against Foreign Aggression/Invasion (Chống Ngoại Xâm) Edition
Dr. K. and his friend, the Little Red Monster, respond to a question about the historicity of the idea that Vietnamese history can be characterized
The Destructive Divide in Vietnamese Academia
There was a brief article in VnExpress the other day called “What can you do if you study Hán Nôm?” “Hán” is the same as
