The Rise of the Pu’s – FINALLY EXPLAINED
Last year I wrote a couple of blog posts on a term, “Pu” 蒲, that appears in Song dynasty sources: “When the Cham Ruled the Seas” and “More Evidence for…
Locating Linyi
There is a place name in early Chinese sources called “Linyi” 林邑.For 100+ years, scholars have been trying to figure out where exactly it was, and how it was related…
Linyi in the History of the Sui
The History of the Sui (Suishu 隋書) was completed in 636. It has an account of Linyi which is translated below.(隋書／列傳 凡五十卷／卷八十二 列傳第四十七 南蠻／林邑)林邑之先，因漢末交阯女子徵側之亂，內縣功曹子區連殺縣令，自號為王。無子，其甥范熊代立，死，子逸立。日南人范文因亂為逸僕隸，遂教之築宮室，造器械。逸甚信任，使文將兵，極得眾心。文因間其子弟，或奔或徙。及逸死，國無嗣，文自立為王。其後范佛為晉揚威將軍戴桓所破。宋交州刺史檀和之將兵擊之，深入其境。至梁、陳，亦通使往來。The origins of Linyi date back to…
Huanwang in the New History of the Tang
There is no account of the Kingdom of Linyi in the New History of the Tang (Xin Tangshu 新唐書), a work that was completed in 1060 AD.However, there is an…
Linyi in the Old History of the Tang
The Old History of the Tang (Jiu Tangshu 舊唐書) was compiled in the mid-tenth century and presented to the emperor in 945.It contains two sections that provide information about the…
Linyi in the Tongdian
The Tongdian 通典 (Comprehensive Institutions) is a kind of encyclopedia that was compiled by scholar-official Du You 杜佑 (735-812) in the second half of the eighth century and completed in…
Linyi in the History of the Jin
Linyi (林邑; Viet, Lâm Ấp) is the name of a kingdom that appears in Chinese sources in the first few centuries AD in the area of what is now central…
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…
The Jawa – Cham Connection
I was recently reading an article by historian Nicolas Weber entitled “Malays in the Indochinese Peninsula: Adventurers, Warlords and Ministers” [Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society…