Yearly Archives: 2021

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Chinese sources (the Ming shilu) record that in the late fourteenth century there was some kind of conflict between a place called Sanfoqi and Java, and that for some reason…

In 1377, the kingdom of Sanfoqi sent an envoy to the Ming court to request an official seal for the Sanfoqi monarch. The Ming Hongwu Emperor obliged, and sent an…

In the previous post, we saw that in various Chinese texts dating from the Song to the Ming periods, there was a kingdom called Sanfoqi that was located in the…

Sanfoqi is the Chinese name of an historical kingdom that scholars believe once existed on the island of Sumatra and was called “Srivijaya.”I disagree. I am 100,000% convinced that Sanfoqi…

Several months ago, I spent a couple of weeks quickly researching and writing about "Srivijaya." That is the name of a purported kingdom that was based at Palembang on the…