Southeast Asia in the “Miscellaneous Records of the Island Barbarians”
The “Miscellaneous Records of the Island Barbarians” (Dao Yi zazhi 島夷雜誌) is the name of a section within a kind of encyclopedia called the Expansive Record of the Forest of…
An Insulting Assessment of My Work
I was looking around for something on the Journal of the Siam Society website and saw a new article by Pierre-Yves Manguin on “George Coedès and Śrīvijaya: From Epigraphy to…
Angkor’s Lost Canal – What Archaeologists Are Missing
There is a major gap in the scholarship on the Cambodian empire of Angkor. That gap concerns Angkor’s access to the sea and international trade.More specifically, scholars don’t really know…
How Digital-Age Scholarship is Different
All fields are different, but the field I am most active in now (looking at early Southeast Asia through Chinese sources) is very different today than it was just 10…
The Thai-icization of Zhenlifu (Chen-li-fu) and Southeast Asian History
Zhenlifu 真里富 (Chen-li-fu) is the name of a small kingdom in central Cambodia that briefly interacted with the Song dynasty at the beginning of the thirteenth century.If you search for…
Zhenlifu (Chen-li-fu) was NOT in Thailand!!
There is a kingdom by the name of Zhenlifu 真里富 (also, Chen-li-fu) that is mentioned in a Song dynasty source known as the Song huiyao jigao 宋會要輯稿 (Draft Institutional History…
The Rise of the Pu’s – FINALLY EXPLAINED
Last year I wrote a couple of blog posts on a term, “Pu” 蒲, that appears in Song dynasty sources: “When the Cham Ruled the Seas” and “More Evidence for…
Zhenla in the Tang and Song
I recently learned/realized that during the Tang dynasty period, there was an overland trade route that went from what is now central Vietnam over to Cambodia and then south to…
Chinese Tributary Names as Geographic Containers
There is something that I have come to realize as I’ve worked with Chinese sources on early Southeast Asian history, and it is that the scholars who have written on…
The Gradual Advance of AI
When technology advances gradually, we tend to not fully appreciate the scale of the transformation that it brings. This is because we adapt to its gradual changes, and lose track…
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