Vietnamese History Sources
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
Digital Humanities, Bronze Drums and Buffaloes
Dông Sơn bronze drums are today a symbol of Vietnam. The images of bronze drums and the details on them (birds, etc.) can be found
Nguyễn Phương’s Lost History
I’ve written briefly about the work of the historian Nguyễn Phương on this blog before. Nguyễn Phương published a book in Vietnamese in Huế in
Digitizing Cultural Heritage
A few years ago I was extremely pleased to see that the National Library of Vietnam was starting to digitize some of the Hán Nôm
Chen Jinghe’s 1950 Study of Kẻ
“Kẻ” is a Vietnamese word which many scholars have attempted to explain. I have yet to hear a convincing explanation. In this post here I
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
Chen Jinghe’s Notes on the Gia Định thành thông chí
Not long after the French obtained control over the area around Saigon, Louis Gabriel Galderic Aubaret published a French “translation” of an early-nineteenth-century gazetteer of
An Examination of the Name Giao Chỉ/Jiaozhi
Chen Jinghe/Trần Kinh Hòa was an historian who was born in 1917 in the Japanese colony of Taiwan. However, he went to school, from elementary
