Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog (+ More)

A colleague and friend pointed out to me that I should look at information in a work known as The Crystal Sands: The Chronicles of Nagara Sri Dharrmaraja.This is a…

A while ago I made a video where I said something like “no place called Srivijaya ever existed”. . .I kind of knew at the time that I might end…

At long last, the first part of a 2-part article on “Srivijaya” has just been published. In this article, I argue that information in Chinese sources (about “Sanfoqi” 三佛齊) that…

I have recently come up with a new picture of premodern Southeast Asian history by revisiting Chinese, Siamese, and Cambodian sources.In particular, I have come to conclude that there was…

As I stated in the previous post (The “One Country - One King” Problem in Premodern Southeast Asian History), when historians have looked at the records of tribute missions to…

There is a major problem that plagues the scholarship on premodern Southeast Asian history, and I call it the “one king - one country” problem.When European scholars during the colonial…

I can see everything clearly now. It all falls into place. It all makes sense. . .Over the past couple of years, I have provided extensive evidence to overturn the…

I am well aware that many people are going to respond with immediate disbelief to the idea of the article that I am about to publish that there was no…