Deconstructing Srivijaya is Easy!
How can it be possible to deconstruct/debunk 100 years of scholarship in a couple weeks/months?In 2021, it's actually pretty easy, and this video explains why that is the case.For more,…
Srivijaya 2.0 (11): The Okinawan Evidence for Sanfoqi = Angkor
In these posts I have been demonstrating that a Chinese name (Sanfoqi) that scholars think refers to a kingdom on the island of Sumatra (Srivijaya) actually referred to “Kambuja,” that…
Life and Nats in Old Burma
After a hiatus (too busy with work!), I'm back to making videos. Here is the latest installment of the Southeast Asian History Course.For the previous videos, please visit the course…
Srivijaya 2.0 (10): Sanfoqi in the Ming shilu
As I stated at the beginning of this series, there is the name of a kingdom in Chinese sources, Sanfoqi, that scholars have long argued indicates “Srivijaya,” the name of…
Srivijaya 2.0 (9): Foreigners in 14th-Century Cambodia
As we saw in an earlier post, there is a chronology for fourteenth-century Cambodian history that is recorded in a group of chronicles that we can call the Nong texts.As…
Srivijaya 2.0 (8): Ayutthaya in the Ming shilu
To be able to understand the information that the Ming shilu 明實錄 (Veritable Records of the Ming) contains about Cambodia in the fourteenth century, we have to also get a…
Srivijaya 2.0 (7): External Evidence for the Nong Chronicle
For Cambodian history, there are various chronicles that record information, and the main chronicles begin by discussing events in the fourteenth century. However, the current versions of these chronicles were…
Srivijaya 2.0 (6): Claude Jacques and the Reality Revealed by Chinese Views of Indochina
In 1979, French archaeologist Claude Jacques published an article that has been frequently cited entitled “‘Funan,’ ‘Zhenla’: The Reality Concealed by these Chinese Views of Indochina.”In this article, Jacques criticized…