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March 3, 2019 Great Transformation / Nguyễn Dynasty

Emperor Đồng Khánh’s First State Letter (Quốc Thư 國書)

The period from 1883-1885 was a dramatic time in Vietnamese history. The troubles began with the passing of Nguyễn Dynasty

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February 27, 2019 Great Transformation / Nguyễn Dynasty

Ngô Đình Khả’s Rise to the Top Through the Quốc Học

I have been trying to figure out the chronology of events that led to the establishment in 1896 of the

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February 25, 2019 Great Transformation / Nguyễn Dynasty

Emperor Thành Thái’s Edict to Establish the Quốc học in 1896

In 1896, the Nguyễn Dynasty established a school at the royal capital in Huế for teaching French. Known in Vietnamese

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February 19, 2019 Great Transformation / Nguyễn Dynasty

A Confucian/Anti-French Critique of the Đông Kinh Nghĩa Thục

I recently came across a fascinating text from the early twentieth century that contains a critique of the Dông Kinh

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February 18, 2019 Great Transformation / Nguyễn Dynasty

Reading Khải Định – The Last Vietnamese Emperor

One major “blind spot” that exists in our understanding of modern Vietnamese history concerns what happened at the Nguyễn Dynasty

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February 14, 2019 Evils of Quốc Ngữ / Nguyễn Dynasty

Erasing Confucian Temples (Văn Miếu 文廟) from Vietnamese History

I’ve recently been doing some research using a nineteenth-century geography called the Đại Nam nhất thống chí 大南一統志 (Unified Gazetteer

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January 13, 2019 Nguyễn Dynasty

Gia Long’s De-Localization of Hanoi’s Văn Miếu

When the Nguyễn Dynasty came to power in 1802, there was a Confucian Temple (Văn Miếu 文廟) in Long Hồ

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July 27, 2012 Nguyễn Dynasty / Vietnamese history sources

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”

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May 8, 2012 Nguyễn Dynasty

Vietnamese Métis in 1863 Paris

In 1862, the Nguyễn Dynasty granted the French some land in the Mekong Delta, after it had been occupied by

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February 28, 2012 Nguyễn Dynasty / Sino-Vietnamese Historical Issues

The Differing Customs of the Qing People

I was reading the Khâm Định Việt Sử Thông Giám Cương Mục and found some interesting entries in the year

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