CANH THÂN
Notes on Vietnamese history and culture
November 6, 2026
This summer, I put together a short packet of background reading on Brandon Hoang’s The Crossbow of Destiny for K-12 educators, and I am sharing a slightly revised version of that material here. The young...
October 25, 2026
Canh Thân is three years old!
I started this blog three years ago, and I’ve decided it is now high time I pay tribute to the musician Canh Thân. Canh Thân was a famous musician in the 1940s, and...
October 23, 2026
I think of teaching at the college level as part curriculum development and part pedagogy. Curriculum is what you teach, and pedagogy is how you teach. For me, curriculum development includes designing...
September 25, 2026
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Chúc các bạn một mùa Trung Thu vui vẻ!
The holiday of Mid-Autumn Festival (Trung Thu, also known as Moon Festival in English) falls on the full moon of the eighth month of the...
September 4, 2026
I said that my last post was the conclusion to my short series about marriage traditions and my own adaptation of them for my wedding years ago, but I wanted to share some sources and readings for readers...
August 21, 2026
This post continues a short series about marriage traditions and my own adaptation of them for my wedding years ago. In the early posts, I identified a few defining characteristics of Vietnamese marriage...
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