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Notes on Vietnamese history and culture

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5. ADVENTURES OF A FIRST-TIME AUTHOR: HOW MUCH IS THAT HISTORICAL PHOTO IN THE WINDOW?
I love looking at the photos in academic books, but I never had any idea how much work it was for authors to include them. I vaguely assumed that authors plucked these photos out of...
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4. ADVENTURES OF A FIRST-TIME AUTHOR: MY WRITING STRATEGIES
As I mentioned elsewhere, my first book was not based on the dissertation, and I actually researched and wrote it from scratch while on the tenure track. The difficulty of such a task...
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MEMORABLE MUSIC: A TOAST TO THE NEW YEAR WITH PHẠM ĐÌNH CHƯƠNG’S “A CELEBRATORY GLASS OF WINE”
Happy New Year! Chúc mừng năm mới! Another year, another holiday song… Phạm Đình Chương’s “A Celebratory Glass of Wine” was one of my favorite holiday songs for the Lunar New Year when...
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3. ADVENTURES OF A FIRST-TIME AUTHOR: THE WRITING PROCESS
“Writing is a process.” That was the mantra that was drilled into my head by countless teachers since about fifth or sixth grade. Yet it wasn’t until I wrote my first book that I developed...
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A GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST FROM HANOI, 1958
A ghost from Christmas past! That was my first thought upon laying eyes on the document. I was visiting Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, and I happened on a memo that recounted...
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2. ADVENTURES OF A FIRST-TIME AUTHOR: THE WRITING ROUTINE
The most common advice that first time authors receive is that they should develop a writing routine. There’s a great deal of good suggestions on the internet about writing routines...
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