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The Western Intellectual Debates Behind Kim Định’s Ideas – Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog. Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past. The Western Intellectual Debates Behind Kim Định’s Ideas. In reading the writings of South Vietnamese philosopher Kim Định, one point that I have found fascinating is seeing the degree to which Kim Định’s ideas were shaped by his awareness of some of the main intellectual debates in the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1871) that cultures evolve from a primitive state to a more complex state. Primitive people ...
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Visions of Modernity in French Indochina – Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog. Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past. Visions of Modernity in French Indochina. I recently discovered that the French Archives nationales de outré-mer. Has digitized a treasure trove of historical photographs from France’s former colonial possessions and has made those images available online for public viewing. However, there are many many many others in this online archive that, as far as I know, have never been made public before. Selecting a territoire, clic...
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Why the Field of Vietnamese History Needs a Joseph Levenson – Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog. Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past. Why the Field of Vietnamese History Needs a Joseph Levenson. I’ve said many times that the most important moment in Vietnamese history, in my opinion, is the early twentieth century, because it is the time when the Vietnamese world view changed 180 degrees. This intellectual transformation, however, has not been clearly documented and it does not get discussed much. This idea that the West is the main reason for change in Ch...
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog – Page 2 – Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog. Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past. 5 The BNĐC Series: What is a Đại Cáo/Dagao? Shortly before he died in 1043 BC, King Wu of the Zhou (周武王 Zhou Wuwang) succeeded in overthrowing the Shang Dynasty and establishing a new dynasty under his family name the Zhou. With his death, however, this newly established Zhou Dynasty faced an uncertain future. Continue reading “5. The BNĐC Series: What is a Đại Cáo/Dagao? August 11, 2016. August 11, 2016. Continue reading &#...
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Pua Kumbu and Digital Knowledge Mobilization – Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog. Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past. Pua Kumbu and Digital Knowledge Mobilization. On a recent trip to Malaysia I visited an exhibition on Textile Tales of Pua Kumbu at the University of Malaya Art Gallery that really impressed me. Pua kumbu are textiles that are woven by the Iban people on the island of Borneo. ( Pua is the Iban word for blanket, and kumbu means to wrap.). To view the video, one has to walk right up to the edge of the area where the video is p...
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Calligraphy and Young People: A Conversation with Independent Scholar Trần Quang Đức – Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog. Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past. Calligraphy and Young People: A Conversation with Independent Scholar Trần Quang Đức. This video is half in English and half in Vietnamese. The parts in English explain what is said in the parts in Vietnamese. Video này không có phụ đề, nhưng chỉ cần biết tiếng Anh hoặc tiếng Viết là có thể hiểu được. A citizen of planet earth. August 10, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Remixing the Past: Milk & Passion in a Time of War – Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog. Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past. Remixing the Past: Milk and Passion in a Time of War. This morning I was browsing through the digitized video and audio files that the Virtual Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University. Has placed online and decided to make a mashup. Of some of the materials there. Finally, the people in the videos are not the same as the people whose voices we hear. This short film is meant to be creative, not documentary. However, I...You a...
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The Far East at the Crossroads, According to Kim Định – Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog. Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past. The Far East at the Crossroads, According to Kim Định. At the end of his book,. Việt Lý Tố Nguyên. Kim Định has a few short chapters that discuss certain political and social issues of his day that can help us understand what he was trying to accomplish through his writings in the 1960s and early 1970s. As such, Kim Định was perhaps what we could label an eclectic traditionalist. At the same time, Kim Định did not really thi...
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Artists and Historians: A Conversation with Nguyễn Phương Linh of Nhà Sàn Collective – Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog
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Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog. Always rethinking the Southeast Asian past. Artists and Historians: A Conversation with Nguyễn Phương Linh of Nhà Sàn Collective. A citizen of planet earth. August 6, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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