Ge Hong’s Five Kingdoms
In the previous post, I translated information about Southeast Asia in an early fourth-century text entitled Grand Clarity Scripture of Divine Elixir Made from Liquid Gold (Taiqing jinye shendan jing…
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…
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…