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
Category: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
