The History of the Sui (Suishu 隋書) was completed in 636. It has an account of Linyi which is translated below.(隋書／列傳 凡五十卷／卷八十二 列傳第四十七 南蠻／林邑)林邑之先，因漢末交阯女子徵側之亂，內縣功曹子區連殺縣令，自號為王。無子，其甥范熊代立，死，子逸立。日南人范文因亂為逸僕隸，遂教之築宮室，造器械。逸甚信任，使文將兵，極得眾心。文因間其子弟，或奔或徙。及逸死，國無嗣，文自立為王。其後范佛為晉揚威將軍戴桓所破。宋交州刺史檀和之將兵擊之，深入其境。至梁、陳，亦通使往來。The origins of Linyi date back to…
There is no account of the Kingdom of Linyi in the New History of the Tang (Xin Tangshu 新唐書), a work that was completed in 1060 AD.However, there is an…
The Old History of the Tang (Jiu Tangshu 舊唐書) was compiled in the mid-tenth century and presented to the emperor in 945.It contains two sections that provide information about the…
The Tongdian 通典 (Comprehensive Institutions) is a kind of encyclopedia that was compiled by scholar-official Du You 杜佑 (735-812) in the second half of the eighth century and completed in…
Rolf Alfred Stein, a Sinologist and Tibetologist, published a study of Linyi in 1947 entitled “Le Lin-yi, sa localisation, sa contribution à la formation du Champa et ses liens avec…
Linyi (林邑; Viet, Lâm Ấp) is the name of a kingdom that appears in Chinese sources in the first few centuries AD in the area of what is now central…
I recently wrote a blog post on the problems with the work of Japanese historian Tatsuo Hoshino, and what I see as the bigger problem of how scholars deal (or…
There is a place mentioned in the New History of the Tang called “Wendan” 文單. It appears in an itinerary that was recorded by Tang dynasty scholar-official Jia Dan in…
There is a Japanese historian by the name of Tatsuo Hoshino who wrote about premodern mainland Southeast Asia.In 1996, he published an article in the Journal of the Siam Society…