Over the past few months, I have been demonstrating that information in Chinese sources that has been used for the past century to write about the history of an imagined…
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,…
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…
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…
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…