In the summer of 1972, the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa held a conference on the Chinese Neo-Confucian scholar, Wang Yangming (1472–1529).This conference was part of…
In 1930, a Vietnamese teacher by the name of Trần Trọng Kim published a book called Confucianism (Nho giáo).Printed in four volumes, it covered the history of Confucian philosophers and…
It recently dawned on me that it must be time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “Le Minh Khai’s SEAsian History Blog.” Then I checked and realized that I began…
The Google Ngram Viewer shows how many times certain terms appear in digitized printed texts.The image below shows what we see when we input the terms “Srivijiya” and “Sri Vijaya”…
George Cœdès (1886-1969) was a French scholar of the Southeast Asian past who published prolifically, and through his writings, has exerted an enormous influence on the writing of premodern Southeast…
The 12th Engaging With Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue conference is set to begin in just over a month.All of the pieces are starting to come together, and we’re looking forward…
On 8 October 1431, the king of Chuzan 中山, one of the principalities that made up the Kingdom of Ryukyu on the island of Okinawa, sent a letter to the…
Did you know that Angkorian kings used to regularly travel to the lower Mekong region to worship a female deity?No, you didn’t know that. I know you didn’t.But don’t feel…
In researching about “Srivijaya” recently, I have been reading about Southeast Asian history in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and I’ve come to realize something that I had not thought…
Over the past few months, I have been demonstrating that information in Chinese sources that has been used for the past century to write about the history of an imagined…