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 eve according to the traditional lunar calendar. I cleaned the stove, placed three apples […]
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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 of the program’s contents. Therefore, I wanted to post my teaching videos here. This last set of videos are
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I am marking the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War in 1975 with an irregular series that reflects on the war’s end and its aftermath. This is my second post, and it builds on my first one about Phan Nhật Nam’s Stories Along the Road, a book that reflects the long arc of recent Vietnamese
Today is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975. I wanted to mark the occasion with an irregular series that reflect on the war’s end and its aftermath. My very first post in the series is about Phan Nhật Nam’s Stories Along the Road, a book that reflects