Angkor’s Route to the Sea Is Hiding in Plain Sight
There is a major blind spot in the scholarship on Angkor. Scholars know that Angkor was connected by water from the Tonle Sap Lake to the Tonle Sap River and…
Angkor’s Lost Canal – What Archaeologists Are Missing
There is a major gap in the scholarship on the Cambodian empire of Angkor. That gap concerns Angkor’s access to the sea and international trade.More specifically, scholars don’t really know…
The Thai-icization of Zhenlifu (Chen-li-fu) and Southeast Asian History
Zhenlifu 真里富 (Chen-li-fu) is the name of a small kingdom in central Cambodia that briefly interacted with the Song dynasty at the beginning of the thirteenth century.If you search for…
Zhenlifu (Chen-li-fu) was NOT in Thailand!!
There is a kingdom by the name of Zhenlifu 真里富 (also, Chen-li-fu) that is mentioned in a Song dynasty source known as the Song huiyao jigao 宋會要輯稿 (Draft Institutional History…
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…
The History of Cambodia You Never Knew About
As I have been writing for years now, there is a place name in Chinese sources, Sanfoqi 三佛齊, which, for the past 100+ years, scholars have thought indicated a place…
Locating Zhenla
Update: No, I'm wrong in this post. I didn't realize people can cover so much distance in a month. To get from Champa to say Sambor Prei Kuk in that…
Intermarriage in Early Cambodia and Indian Colonies in the East
I recently translated the section on Zhenla, a polity that appears to have existed in the area of what is now Cambodia and southern Vietnam, in the History of the…
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