Wendan was Sambor Prei Kuk
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…
Chitu in Cambodia: A “Vigorous Rejection” of Tatsuo Hoshino’s Work
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…
Infinitely Scrolling Through the Past
Last night I was looking through documents from British North Borneo and came across a record from 1886 about the murder the previous year in Palawan, then under Spanish rule,…
Engaging With Vietnam #15 Grand Event
The “Grand Event” of the 15th Engaging With Vietnam (EWV) conference, to celebrate the conference’s fifteenth anniversary, will be held in Hanoi from 12-16 December 2025 with the collaborative support…
Grokipedia and the Hồng Bàng Dynasty
On October 27, 2025, Elon Musk’s company xAI released the first version (version 0.1) of an alternative to Wikipedia, called Grokipedia.It appears that the creation of Grokipedia was the result…
Going on a Mission
Oh, all this talk about the evils of area studies has made me nostalgic for the past. I'm going on a mission for a bit and won't be updating this…
Is the End of Area Studies Finally Here?
I grew up in Vermont near a small liberal arts college, Middlebury College. Every summer the campus would transform, as the college would hold its “language schools” where students would…
The Seventeenth-Century Rise of Hà Tiên and Singora
One of the first papers I ever published was called “Thoughts on a Chinese Diaspora: The Case of the Mạcs of Hà Tien” (2000). I wrote it as a final…
James A. Anderson’s “The Dong World”: An AI Reading
A while ago I became aware that historian James A. Anderson has published a new book entitled The Dong World and Imperial China’s Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State…
They’re Coming!!
When I was working in the US, I never got an email from a predatory/scam journal.Then I went to work at a university in Southeast Asia, and I immediately started…
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