How Digital-Age Scholarship is Different
All fields are different, but the field I am most active in now (looking at early Southeast Asia through Chinese sources) is very different today than it was just 10…
Zhenla in the Tang and Song
I recently learned/realized that during the Tang dynasty period, there was an overland trade route that went from what is now central Vietnam over to Cambodia and then south to…
What the Heck is Happening on Wikipedia?!!
In 2024, the Wikipedia page for Chenla [Zhenla], contained the following sentence:“According to Paul Pelliot, Sambhupura was the capital of Land Chenla [km] (Upper Chenla) and Vyadhapura was the capital…
Wendan was Sambor Prei Kuk
There is a place mentioned in the New History of the Tang called “Wendan” 文單. It appears in an itinerary that was recorded by Tang dynasty scholar-official Jia Dan in…
Chitu in Cambodia: A “Vigorous Rejection” of Tatsuo Hoshino’s Work
There is a Japanese historian by the name of Tatsuo Hoshino who wrote about premodern mainland Southeast Asia.In 1996, he published an article in the Journal of the Siam Society…
Zhenla was “Cambodian”????!!!!!
A confession: the history of early maritime Southeast Asia is not my field. I just stumbled into it starting about five years ago.Yes, before that time, I had at times…