More Evidence for the Cham Pu/Po in Chinese Historical Sources
In a recent blog post, I talked about how in Song dynasty era sources, there is a “surname” that appears in numerous Chinese records about tribute missions coming from Southeast…
More Evidence of Two “Javas”
I have made the argument that there was a trans-peninsular empire/polity in the area of Songkhla – Kedah that foreigners referred to by the name “Java/Jaba,” and that it was…
More Evidence for the Trans-Peninsular Crossing at Kedah – Songkhla
In the previous post, I mentioned that there was a tribute mission from the Chola Kingdom in 1015 that was led by a certain Suolisanwen (娑里三文) with a deputy envoy…
When the Cham Ruled the Seas
In Song dynasty era sources, there is a “surname” that appears in numerous records about tribute missions coming from Southeast Asia (and beyond), and that is “Pu” 蒲. This character…
The Angkorian Independence from Java “Myth”
Several years ago, when I first started researching about “Srivijaya” and quickly realized that a place name in Chinese sources (Sanfoqi) that scholars thought indicated that supposed polity on Sumatra…
The Myth of Jambi as a Capital of “Srivijaya”
I was reading a book that was published in 2022 called The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia. It contains a chapter on “Srivijaya” by Pierre-Yves Manguin.In that chapter, there…
Engaging With Vietnam #15
THE 15TH ENGAGING WITH VIETNAM EVENT SERIESANNOUNCING THE GRAND EVENT:“Knowledge Production, Creative Industries, Education, and the AI Age in Vietnam: Looking Back and Moving Forward”, 10-13 December 2025, Hanoi, VietnamEngaging…
Rescuing History from Srivijaya – Part 2
A couple of years ago, I published an article entitled “Rescuing History from Srivijaya: The Fall of Angkor in the Ming Shilu (Part 1).” A continuation of that article, “Rescuing…
Hard Drives
I recently made an international move. In preparation for moving, I copied all of the important files from all of the computers and hard drives that I had onto a…
Cambodia for the Cambodians in 1938
Years ago, when I was reading the Cambodian newspaper Nagara vatta, I remember seeing articles that showed the kinds of problems that the Cambodian elite discussed in the late 1930s…
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