Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam has recently published a chapter entitled “Tianxia as Anticosmopolitan and Protoracial: A Case Study of Late Imperial Vietnam” in a book entitled Tianxia in Comparative Perspectives: Alternative Models for a Possible Planetary Order that was edited by Roger T. Ames, […]
Read MoreLiam C. KELLEY
Associate Professor
PhD (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Room: FASS 2.33
Email: liam.kelley@ubd.edu.bn
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About
Liam C. Kelley is an Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies in The Institute of Asian Studies.
His background is in premodern Vietnamese history, but he is particularly interested in how the premodern Vietnamese past has been reinterpreted and re-purposed since the early twentieth century.
Beyond Vietnam, Professor Kelley has taught numerous courses on modern Southeast Asian history and is interested in re-conceptualizing the narrative of modern Southeast Asian history.
Professor Kelley is also very interested in the ways in which the Digital Revolution is transforming how scholars can produce and disseminate their ideas and has been at the forefront of the effort to employ new digital media for academic purposes.
Dr. Kelley is Founding and Series Co-Editor of the book series Global Vietnam (Springer) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies (Brill).
Finally, together with Professor Phan Le Ha in the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE), Professor Kelley organizes an annual conference called Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.
Research Interests
• Vietnamese history
• Modern Southeast Asian history
• Premodern Southeast Asian history
• Digital Humanities
• The Intersection of New Media and Academic Scholarship
Select Publications
Journal Articles
Liam C. Kelley, “Rescuing History from Srivijaya: The Fall of Angkor in the Ming Shilu (Part 1),” China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies Vol. 4, No. 1 (2022): 38-91.
Liam C. Kelley, “The Decline of Asian Studies in the West and the Rise of Knowledge Production in Asia: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Mobility, Knowledge Production and Academic Discourses,” Research in Comparative and International Education (RCIE), Vol.15, No. 3 (2020):273-290.
Liam C. Kelley, “Taxation and Military Conscription in Early Modern Vietnam: Nguyễn Đàng Trong in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies Vol. 15, No. 2 (2020): 1-39.
Liam C. Kelley, “The Centrality of ‘Fringe History’: Diaspora, the Internet and a New Version of Vietnamese Prehistory,” International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies Vol. 16, No. 1 (2020): 71–104.
Phan Lê Hà, Liam C. Kelley, and Jamie Gillen, “Introduction: The Collaboration Project between Engaging With Vietnam and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies Vol. 15, No. 1 (2020): 1-5.
Liam C. Kelley, “From a Reliant Land to a Kingdom in Asia: Premodern Geographic Knowledge and the Emergence of the Geo-Body in Late Imperial Vietnam,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 5.2 (2016): 460-496.
Liam C. Kelley, “Moral Exemplar, Our General, Potent Deity, Confucian Moralizer and National Hero: The Transformations of Trần Hưng Đạo,” Modern Asian Studies 49.6 (2015): 1963-1993.
Liam C. Kelley, “Tai Words and the Place of the Tai in the Vietnamese Past,” Journal of the Siam Society 101 (2013): 55-84.
Liam C. Kelley, “The Biography of the Hồng Bàng Clan as a Medieval Vietnamese Invented Tradition,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 7.2 (2012): 87-130.
Book Chapters
Liam C. Kelley, “Betwixt and Between Generational, Areal and Digital Divides: Studying Vietnam and Southeast Asia as a Generation X Sinologist in the Age of Globalization and the Digital Revolution,” in Fieldwork and the Self: Changing Research Styles in Southeast Asia, edited by Jérémy Jammes and Victor T. King (Singapore: Springer-IAS “Asia in Transition” Series, 2021), 353-380.
Dinh Hong Hai and Liam C. Kelley, “Competing Imagined Ancestries: The Lạc Việt, the Vietnamese, and the Zhuang,” in Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community, edited by Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, and Phan Le Ha (Singapore: Springer-IAS Asia in Transition Series, forthcoming 2021), 89-107.
Liam C. Kelley, Jamie Gillen, and Phan Le Ha, “Introduction,” in Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community, edited by Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, and Phan Le Ha (Singapore: Springer-IAS “Asia in Transition” Series, 2021), 1-14.
Liam C. Kelley, “Connecting to Power: Imagined Genealogies in Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia,” in The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History: Circulation, Movement, Encounters, edited by May Hawas (London: Routledge, 2018), 289-297.
Liam C. Kelley, “Convergence and Conflict: Dai Viet and the Sinic Order,” in Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Johanna “Miek” Boltjes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Liam C. Kelley, “Constructing Local Narratives: Spirits: Dreams, and Prophecies in the Medieval Red River Delta,” in China’s Encounters on the South and Southwest: Forging the Fiery Frontier, James Anderson and John K. Whitmore, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 78-105.
Liam C. Kelley, “Inventing Traditions in Fifteenth-Century Vietnam,” in Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours, edited by Victor Mair and Liam C. Kelley (Singapore: ISEAS, 2015), 161-193.
Edited Books and Special Issues
Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, and Phan Le Ha, eds., Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community, edited by (Singapore: Springer-IAS Asia in Transition Series, forthcoming 2021).
Phan Lê Hà, Liam C. Kelley and Jamie Gillen, eds., “Special Issue: The Collaboration Project between Engaging With Vietnam and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies Vol. 15, No. 1 (2020).
John D. Phan and Liam C. Kelley, eds., “Buddhist Literacy in Early Modern Vietnamese Print Culture,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies Vol. 13, No. 3 (2018).
Victor Mair and Liam C. Kelley, eds., Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours (Singapore: ISEAS, 2015).
News
Articles on Globalization, Vietnam, and ASEAN
Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) has recently co-edited a special section of four articles for the journal Suvannabhumi: Multi-disciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies on “Globalization, Vietnam and ASEAN.” The four articles were first presented at the 12th Engaging With Vietnam conference, […]
Read MoreNew Article on Sinology in Vietnam
Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) has recently published an article on “Sinology in Vietnam” in the Journal of Chinese History. Sinology is the study of “China,” and although the Vietnamese educated elite read and wrote classical Chinese for centuries, this paper argues […]
Read MoreWorking Paper on the Chinese Sources on Early Southeast Asian History
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No 73: Revisiting the Chinese Sources on Early Southeast Asian History by Liam C. Kelley. Please see below for details. Download the Working Paper Abstract: Chinese sources have played a very important role in the writing […]
Read MoreSeminar on Southeast Asian History
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “Reconceptualizing Southeast Asian History: The Under-recognized Role of the Malay Peninsula, 600-1400” by Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley. For more information, please see the flyer below.
Read MoreNew IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” Volume on Vietnam
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume in the IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” Series: Vietnam at the Vanguard: New Perspectives Across Time, Space, and Community edited by Jamie Gillen, Liam C. Kelley, and Phan Le Ha. This transdisciplinary edited book […]
Read MoreLiam C. Kelley on Vietnamese History & Area/Asian Studies
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to share a video interview with Dr. Liam C. Kelley of IAS on Vietnamese History & Area/Asian Studies. For more information about Dr. Kelley, please visit his IAS staff page:https://ias.ubd.edu.bn/liam-kelley/ Articles mentioned in the video: Liam C. Kelley, “The Decline of Asian Studies in […]
Read MoreWebinar on Vietnamese and International Scholarship
Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) presented a webinar on 20 September 2020 on “Việt Origins in Vietnamese and International Scholarship: Unequal Knowledge in the Global Age” as part of “The Vietnam Studies Research Snapshot (VSRS) Webinar Series.” The VSRS Webinar Series seeks […]
Read MoreKelley Appointed Co-Editor of New Journal
Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley has been appointed co-editor of China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies (CAHS). Founded by Professor Han Xiaorong of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, CAHS is a peer-reviewed English-language forum for historical research on relations between China and other regions of Asia during both the pre-modern and modern periods. […]
Read MoreNew Article on Vietnamese History
In a new article on Vietnamese history, Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley reinterprets what we know about the historical development of the southern half of Vietnam. The southern half of Vietnam has long been characterized by historians as historically less-centralized, less-Confucian, and less-bureaucratic than the Vietnamese heartland in the Red River delta. However, through a […]
Read MoreSeminar on Rethinking Trade and the Environment in Southeast Asian History
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 March 2020 for a talk by Dr. Liam C. Kelley, Associate Professor at IAS, on “Rethinking Trade and the Environment in Southeast Asian History.” For more information, please see the flyer below.
Read MoreKelley Co-Edits Journal Issue on Vietnam
Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Entitled “The Collaboration Project between Engaging With Vietnam and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies,” this special issue contains three papers from an annual multi-disciplinary conference on Vietnam called Engaging […]
Read MoreKelley on Vietnamese “Fringe History”
Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam has just published an article on “The Centrality of ‘Fringe History’: Diaspora, The Internet and a New Version of Vietnamese Prehistory” in the International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies. The abstract of the article is as follows: Until recently, virtually […]
Read MoreSeminar on Vietnam as a “Royal Nation”
Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley will give a talk for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Seminar Series on “The Forgotten Role of the ‘Royal Nation’ of Vietnam.” For more information, please see the flyer below.
Read MoreIAS Working Paper on Early British North Borneo
The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam is pleased to announce the publication of IAS Working Paper No. 45: Stranger Kings and Strangers in an Asiatic Country: The Ambiguity of Human Relations in Early British North Borneo by Liam C. Kelley. Please see below for details. Abstract: This paper seeks to understand how […]
Read MoreWednesday Seminar on “Diaspora, the Internet and Vietnamese History”
Please join us at 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 October 2018, for a talk by IAS Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley on “Diaspora, the Internet and the Re-Invention of Early Vietnamese History.” For more information, please see the flyer below.
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