Western Scholarship on Vietnam
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
Foreign Knowledge Production about Vietnam and Nhậu: A Theorization
For the past 20+ years, I’ve watched Vietnam change dramatically. Now as I visit the country after a three-year absence because of the COVID pandemic,
“Reverse Academic Dependency” in English-Language Writings on Premodern Vietnam (+ Free Article!!)
The Journal of Historical Sociology has just published a special issue that contains an interesting article on English-language scholarship on premodern Vietnamese history. Entitled “Academic
A Really Great Article on (Premodern) Vietnamese Religion
I just read a really good article. It is entitled “The Karma of Love: Buddhist Karmic Discourses in Confucian and Daoist Voices in Vietnamese Tales
Colonial Republicanism and the Revolutionary Narrative of Modern Vietnamese History
I used to teach a course on modern Vietnamese history (19th and 20th centuries), but I stopped teaching it a few years ago because I
The Red River Delta’s Limited Rice Supply in the First Century AD
As far as I know, no one has ever written a history of rice cultivation in the Red River Delta. Instead, I think most people
The Other North American View of “The 30-Years War in Vietnam” – the View that Will Never Change as Long as Academics only Speak to Fellow Intellectuals
In the previous post I commented on a recent essay that historian Christopher Goscha published in the New York Times called “The 30-Years War in
The 30-Years War in Vietnam, and 30 Years of Western Scholarship
Historian Christopher Goscha had an essay published in the New York Times yesterday (7 February 2017) entitled “The 30-Years War in Vietnam.” This essay is
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
