CANH THÂN
Notes on Vietnamese history and culture
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 a historian, I knew...
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 was my first job as...
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 learned the ritual from...
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, a week before new year’s...
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 and scrubbed the website...
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 and scrubbed the website...