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Mostly Asian History

Peter Huston

Asian, Chinese, and Chinese-American history and culture, mostly, Issues in pseudohistory or false claims about historical events. Since January 2025, I have been writing about American politics and current events as well. I couldn't help myself.

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Ostrich raising in Vietnam -Its modern history.

A cheerful ostrich farmer here in Vietnam. This was taken a few years ago.

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I am still in Vietnam, keeping busy (I really considered resubmitting an old post this week instead of writing...

9 days ago
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Racism, Anti-Racism, and Anti-Anti-Racism, Almost nobody in Asia cares about "Othering." Really

First, while I try to label my political columns with “POLITICS,” not only is this one pretty obviously politics, making me question the need for such a label, but it also has a lot of Asian culture content mixed in too, again, making me qu...

13 days ago

Getting Chinese names mostly right: the mid-19th Century Cantonese names in California and the "Ah" participle. And a bit about Hanoi today

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Photos of Hanoi this week. If you are viewing this on a laptop or large screen you should see a nice, structured block of nine photos. If you are seeing this on a phone or small screen, you are probably seeing a series of nine...

16 days ago
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POLITICS - my thoughts on "Border Czar" Tom Homan's announced plan to send a "wave" of ICE agents into my state. -And Mayor Mandani's rap career as Mr Cardamom

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Quick intro and thanks for being here. While my focus for the past two years has been sharing info on Chinese and Asian history and related subjects, mostly, around January of 2025, I began writing as well on US politics and cu...

20 days ago

Chinese Names, Cantonese Versus Mandarin Names, Getting Names right, and Being Aware of How Language and Dialect Affects Chinese Names

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你的貴姓嗎?

(what is your honorable name?)

When doing history, by which I mean researching and studying or writing about history, it’s important to get the names right. If you are writing about people and the things they did,...

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    Writer, EMT, large event security, journalist, author several books, published skeptic fringe & paranormal claims, independent scholar -East Asian history. ESL professor/instructor -refugees, immigrants, foreign students. USA, Shanghai, Taiwan.

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