3 Comments

I see your work as New Viet Nam Studies, just as we call ours New Sinology. What choice do we have when almost everything everyone “knows” about our subject is wrong? I took your advice a decade ago and am hiding in plain sight in the stacks and plow rows. Does your PC mean Preach Christ or Plant Corn? Maybe it is Politically Correct 🥲

Expand full comment

My content so far grows from seeing that I have made visible, 4 times a week since early February, a world that does exist on which my sensibility affords a view through my authors. I can't think of a larger claim, on the one hand, and on the other therefore any such claim is unfounded. Rather than new call it old guy stuff. Old school. School for getting old.

Expand full comment

OG. Accurate. Succinct. Yes, the term “New Sinology” was coined by another big time smart person with a bigger ego than you. I keep throwing bricks and you keep uncovering jade. I really did learn how to engage the world at your kitchen table. Still learning.

Expand full comment