Shepo 闍婆 was DEFINITELY in the Songkhla Area
Several years ago, I first suspected that a name that we find in Song-dynasty-era sources, Sanfoqi, referred to “Kambuja/Kampuchea” rather than what most of the rest of the scholarly world…
The Inland Water Route from Nakhon Si Thammarat to Songkhla
If you look at old European maps of the area of what is now southern Thailand, you will notice something odd. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, these maps…
Deciphering Siamese Placenames in Chinese
I recently upgraded some maps in Chinese that cover the area of Siam in the eighteenth century. In doing so, I did not update what we can know about the…
The Lake Songkhla to Kedah Trade Route in the 18th Century
For years, I have been arguing that the area between Lake Songkhla and Kedah was home to a trans-peninsular trade route of immense importance in the final centuries of the…
Three 18th-Century Siam-Related Chinese Maps
In 2012, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan held an exhibition of historical maps in its collection and published a catalog of that exhibition entitled “Mapping the Imperial Realm, an…
The Thai-icization of Zhenlifu (Chen-li-fu) and Southeast Asian History
Zhenlifu 真里富 (Chen-li-fu) is the name of a small kingdom in central Cambodia that briefly interacted with the Song dynasty at the beginning of the thirteenth century.If you search for…
The Thai-ification of Tang-era Chinese Placenames, or Why the Work of Scholars is Inconsequential
I recently wrote a blog post on the problems with the work of Japanese historian Tatsuo Hoshino, and what I see as the bigger problem of how scholars deal (or…
The Tai and Nanzhao
A reader left a comment recently on a blog post that I wrote 14 years ago about what I thought was evidence of some Tai-language speaking people in the area…
Agrarian Transformation in Thailand, and Rural-Urban Interactions
One of the great joys of my work is making videos of conversations with scholars who research about Southeast Asia. It was my great pleasure and honor to recently make…
The History of Domestic Tourism in Thailand
As is well known, in the 1960s and 1970s Thailand became a major destination for international tourists.
During those same years, Thailand’s domestic tourism market also expanded.
I was in the library the other day and came across a magazine that targeted potential Thai tourists in the 1960s and 1970s. In just looking at the images on the front cover of this magazine it’s interesting to see the kind of image of Thailand that was being promoted.
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