A Year of the Fire Horse View of Asian History/Studies and the Humanities
As I was having my morning coffee today, an announcement for the latest issue of the Journal of Asian Studies popped up on my screen. I took a look at…
Temasek is NOT Mentioned in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư
The other day I was looking for information about “Temasek,” an early name associated with Singapore, and I came across a webpage hosted by the National Library Board (NLB) of…
A Translation of the 1304 Dade Nanhai zhi
The Gazetteer of the Southern Seas during the Dade Era (Dade Nanhai zhi 大德南海志), also known simply as the Gazetteer of the Southern Seas (Nanhai zhi 南海志) is a Yuan-dynasty…
Elephants and Dragon Teeth Gate (Longyamen)
In developing the idea that Chinese sources provide evidence of a kingdom called “Srivijaya” at Palembang on the island of Sumatra, a placename called “Longyamen” 龍牙門, meaning “Dragon Teeth Gate,”…
Why I like Grok – Knowledge in the AI Age
When it comes to LLMs, I have always had a positive view of Grok. The other day, I asked the free version of Grok using its “thinking” mode the following…
Southeast Asia in the Zhufan zhi
The Treatise on the Various Barbarians (Zhufan zhi 諸蕃志), completed in 1225 by Zhao Rukuo 趙汝适 (1170—1231), is a very important work for the study of early Southeast Asian history.An…
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…
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