Southeast Asian Scholars and Southeast Asian Studies
What I am going to say here is more impressionistic than “scientific.” So if anyone has opinions about this matter, please feel free to express them. About a year ago…
“Administration” in the Red River Delta During the Millennium of “Chinese” Rule
I have often read accounts that say that after the Han Dynasty incorporated the area of the Red River Delta into its empire, the “Chinese” set up an “administration” in…
Digitizing the Historical Geography of Vietnam with GIS
One digital humanities project that I would love to see take place would be the creation of a web page that would enable people to interactively examine the extensive amount…
It’s Time for Southeast Asian History to Go Digital
The “digital humanities” is, if not the hottest field in academia in the US today, certainly the fastest growing. If you observe the announcements that are posted to web sites…
Georges Coedès and the Sanskrit Inscriptions of Cambodia
I recently read a fabulous article by Alexis Sanderson, entitled “The Śaiva Religion among the Khmers (Part I)” in the Bulletin de l’Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient 90-91 (2003): 349-462. In this…
The Myth of the Southeast Asian Reality Concealed by Chinese Views
In 1979 Claude Jacques published an essay entitled “‘Funan,’ ‘Zhenla’: The Reality Concealed by these Chinese Views of Indochina.” His point in this short work was to argue that Western…
The Superficiality of Scholarship on Premodern Southeast Asian History
I got really depressed this weekend listening to a “senior scholar” in the field of premodern Southeast Asian history give a talk. The speaker is very well published, and has…
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