The Lost History of the Mekong Delta
Last weekend I participated in a weekly online forum in Vietnam called “Midnight Talks.” The topic this past week was on “The Lost History of the Mekong Delta.”I presented together…
The Zhu Fan Zhi and the Complete Mess Scholars Have Made
The scholarship on early Southeast Asian history that relies on Chinese sources is a complete mess.From the very beginning, scholars got a lot of things wrong, and then they just…
Seeing Trans-Peninsular Networks in Chinese Historical Sources (Part 1)
Chinese historical sources have long been used to try to gain an understanding of early Southeast Asian history.However, when scholars have made use of these sources, they have usually done…