I FINALLY Figured Out Yijing!!
If you don’t know what this title means, then you can read these blog posts to find out more:“Yijing did NOT Visit Jambi/Srivijaya”“I Found “Malayu / Malaya / Malāyur!!!”The gist…
There is no Pulau Aur in Song Dynasty Era Sources
A few days ago, I posted a translation of information about maritime Southeast Asia in Zhou Qufei’s 周去非 1178 work, Lingwai daida 嶺外代答 [Representative Responses about the Region Beyond the…
Geographic Space in the Lingwai Daida
I have just shared a translation that ChatGPT and I made of the sections in Zhou Qufei’s twelfth-century Lingwai daida that relate to maritime Southeast Asia. I would like to…
12th-Century Maritime Southeast Asia in the Lingwai Daida
Zhou Qufei’s 周去非 1178 work, Lingwai daida 嶺外代答 [Representative Responses about the Region Beyond the Passes], is a very important Chinese source for information about maritime Southeast Asia at that…
Cham Pu Muslims
In previous posts I have been challenging a long-held belief that a “surname” that appears in Chinese sources, “Pu,” indicates the Arab name, “Abu” or the Javanese-Malay title, “mpu/empu.”In this…
More Evidence for the Cham Pu/Po in Chinese Historical Sources
In a recent blog post, I talked about how in Song dynasty era sources, there is a “surname” that appears in numerous Chinese records about tribute missions coming from Southeast…
More Evidence of Two “Javas”
I have made the argument that there was a trans-peninsular empire/polity in the area of Songkhla – Kedah that foreigners referred to by the name “Java/Jaba,” and that it was…
More Evidence for the Trans-Peninsular Crossing at Kedah – Songkhla
In the previous post, I mentioned that there was a tribute mission from the Chola Kingdom in 1015 that was led by a certain Suolisanwen (娑里三文) with a deputy envoy…
When the Cham Ruled the Seas
In Song dynasty era sources, there is a “surname” that appears in numerous records about tribute missions coming from Southeast Asia (and beyond), and that is “Pu” 蒲. This character…
The Angkorian Independence from Java “Myth”
Several years ago, when I first started researching about “Srivijaya” and quickly realized that a place name in Chinese sources (Sanfoqi) that scholars thought indicated that supposed polity on Sumatra…