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…
Rolf Stein’s “Le Linyi”
Rolf Alfred Stein, a Sinologist and Tibetologist, published a study of Linyi in 1947 entitled “Le Lin-yi, sa localisation, sa contribution à la formation du Champa et ses liens avec…
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…
Old Harbor in the Ming shilu
For the past five years, I have been arguing that a placename that appears in Chinese historical sources, Sanfoqi, was a reference to Cambodia, rather than to a proposed polity…
Sanfoqi, Old Harbor and the Baolin Polity in the Rekidai Hōan
For the past five years, I have been putting forth the argument that a Chinese place name, Sanfoqi, that scholars believe referred to a polity on Sumatra called “Srivijaya” was…
Sanfoqi in the Ming shilu
Many years ago now, in the 1990s, historian Geoff Wade translated the information about Southeast Asia in the Ming shilu (Veritable Records of the Ming), and then in the 2000s…
Southeast Asia in the History of the Song
The History of the Song (Songshi 宋史) is a very important source for the study of Southeast Asian history.One section of that work that is particularly important is Liezhuan 列傳…
Third-Fourth Century Maritime Southeast Asia in a Daoist Text
I recently came to realize that there is geographic information about third-fourth century maritime Southeast Asia in a Daoist text, the Grand Clarity Scripture of Divine Elixir Made from Liquid…
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…