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 we conduct research in the Digital Age enable us to easily significantly revise, if not outright refute, the scholarship that was produced in the Analog Age. I’ve spent a lot […]
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 is that? Well, it’s a long story, but we can start with the Japanese. In the nineteenth century, some Japanese intellectuals tried to learn about Western societies and they discovered […]
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 article is by Trần Thị Xuân and it is a study of the granting of official recognition to local spirits during the first several decades of Nguyễn Dynasty rule […]
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 ancient Chinese texts where it refers to a group of people who inhabited an area somewhere around what is now Guangxi/northern Vietnam. In the twentieth century, this group of people […]
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