Engaging With Vietnam #14
The 14th Engaging With Vietnam Conference will be held in Hue (1-6 August 2023). The overall theme of the conference is “Living with Heritage, (Re)Creating Heritage: Vietnam and the World,”…
Searching for Sujidan
There is a thirteenth-century Chinese text called the Treatise on the Various Barbarian Lands (Zhu fan zhi 諸蕃志) that has information about a place on the island of Java that…
Engaging With Vietnam #13
The 13th Engaging With Vietnam conference will be held next week, with the main academic part of the conference running from 26 - 28 October.To get a sense of what…
The Lost History of the Mekong Delta
Last weekend I participated in a weekly online forum in Vietnam called “Midnight Talks.” The topic this past week was on “The Lost History of the Mekong Delta.”I presented together…
The Zhu Fan Zhi and the Complete Mess Scholars Have Made
The scholarship on early Southeast Asian history that relies on Chinese sources is a complete mess.From the very beginning, scholars got a lot of things wrong, and then they just…
Seeing Trans-Peninsular Networks in Chinese Historical Sources (Part 1)
Chinese historical sources have long been used to try to gain an understanding of early Southeast Asian history.However, when scholars have made use of these sources, they have usually done…
Srivijaya 3.0 (21): The Language of Jāba – I Can’t Figure It Out
I have recently been writing a lot about a place that I refer to as “Jāba,” a kingdom that I argue was based in the area of what is now…
Srivijaya 3.0 (20): “Jāba” in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư
By now I think that I have clearly established the fact that there was a kingdom located in the area of what is now Songkhla that was at the center…
Srivijaya 3.0 (19): A Vietnamese Encounter with “Cha Ba” in the Early 19th Century
In 1810, two Vietnamese officials presented to Emperor Gia Long a map of the routes to, and within parts of, Siam with an accompanying text based on information they had…
Srivijaya 3.0 (18): The Burma-Jāba Connection
In many recent posts, I have been writing about a place that I call “Jāba.” This was the center of a major trans-peninsular trade empire, and it was located around…
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