Huanwang in the New History of the Tang
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…
Linyi in the Old History of the Tang
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…
Linyi in the Tongdian
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 Stein’s “Le Linyi”
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 in the History of the Jin
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…
The Thai-ification of Tang-era Chinese Placenames, or Why the Work of Scholars is Inconsequential
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…
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…
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