CANH THÂN
Notes on Vietnamese history and culture
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Happy New Year! Chúc mừng năm mới!
A week ago, I made an offering to the Kitchen God on my stove top. The ritual is typically performed on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month,...
As I mentioned earlier, I worked on a series of teaching videos about the Vietnam War for the Choices Program a few years ago. Sadly, Brown University shut down the Choices Program...