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4. WHEN HISTORIANS GET MARRIED: 5 WAYS TO HONOR YOUR VIETNAMESE HERITAGE ON YOUR WEDDING DAY
This post continues a short series about marriage traditions and my own adaptation of them for my wedding years ago. In my first two posts, I identified a few defining characteristics...
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3. WHEN HISTORIANS GET MARRIED: MARRIAGE RITUALS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY VIETNAM… AND TODAY?
This post continues a short series about marriage traditions and my own adaptation of them for my wedding years ago. In the first and second post, I identified a few defining characteristics...
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2. WHEN HISTORIANS GET MARRIED: WHAT IS TRADITION ANYWAYS? (PART 2)
This post continues a short series about marriage traditions and my own adaptation of them for my wedding years ago. In this post and the previous, I identify a few defining characteristics...
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1. WHEN HISTORIANS GET MARRIED: WHAT IS TRADITION ANYWAYS? (PART 1)
Wedding season is just around the corner in the US, and every wedding season makes me think of my own wedding years ago. I wanted my wedding to reflect Vietnamese tradition, but as...
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ASIAN HISTORY THROUGH ASIAN EYES
About 15 years ago, I decided to take a job at an international women’s university in Bangladesh and taught there for an academic year. It was a year of many firsts for me. It...
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SENDING OFF THE KITCHEN GOD (Part 2)
Chúc mừng năm mới! Happy New Year! In the first part of this two-part post, I described the practice of making an offering to the Kitchen God a week before Lunar New Year and how I...
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