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 […]
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, I can see that yet more dramatic change has taken place. While there are many different ways in which I detect change, such as an increase in global name-brand stores […]
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 Dependency Theory and the Politics of Agency in Area Studies: The Case of Anglophone Vietnamese Studies from the 1960s to the 2010s,” the article was written by Yufen Chang of […]
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 of the Marvelous and Uncanny” (long title!) and it was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. The article is written by Cuong T. Mai. I […]
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