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Zhaolin Xu

Portrait of Zhaolin   Xu

Xu Zhaolin 許肇琳 [simplified 许肇琳] (b. 1936, Udong, Cambodia) is a Cambodian historian who settled in China at an early age, a professor at 中山大学东南亚研究所 [Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Sun-Yatsen University] who been writing extensively on China-Cambodia relations since the earliest times, precisely the 3th century CE according to his research.

After growing up in Phnom Penh, Xu Zhaolin went to China with his father in 1950, graduated in history from Zhong Shan University, Guangzhou, in 1959. With his expertise in Cambodia-China cultural exchanges and Khmer language, he advised Chinese researcher Xia Nai in the latter’s edition of Zhou Daguan’s Customs of Cambodia. 

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Xu Zhaolin (with cap) among students and professors at Sun Yat-sen University seminar 中国柬埔寨研究的过去, 现在与未来”学术研讨 [“Past, Present and Future of Cambodian studies in China], Nov. 2020. [source: thep​a​per​.cn; thanks to Pascal Médeville for the tip]

Publications

  • 法國在柬埔塞的殖民統治及共捐潰 [“French Colonial Rule in Cambodia and the Collapse of the Communist Party”], in 慶祝中山大學建校六十週年(1924 – 1984) 東南亞 登史論文集, [Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of Sun Yat-sen University (1924−1984), Southeast Asia Historical Essays], 1984, pp. 66 – 75.
  • 中国古籍中的柬埔寨史料 [Cambodian Historical Data in Chinese Ancient Books], with 陈显泗, 赵和曼, 詹方瑶, 张万生 [Chen Xiansi, Zhao Heman, Zhan Fangyao, Zhang Wansheng], 1985.
  • 中柬首先開始問題辨析 [“China and Cambodia, analyzing the issue of origin”], in 中山大学学报 (Journal of the Institute of Southeast Asian History, Sun Yatsen University), Vol.3. Guangzhou: Zhong shan daxue, 1986, 99 p. 
  • 泰国泰族探源 [“Exploring the origin of the Thai People in Thailand], 中山大学学报（社会科学版）[Journal of Sun Yat-sen University (Social Science Edition)] 31(3), 1991.
  • “Overseas Chinese Identities”, contribution to The Luodi-Shenggen Conference, University of California, Berkeley, Nov.1992 [speakers: Chu Hong-yuan, Taipei; Xiang Dayou, Nanning; Xu Zhaolin, Albert Yee]; see Myra Sidharta, ​“Report on the Luodi-Shenggen Conference held by the University of California (Berkeley, November 26 – 29, 1992)”, Archipel, vol 45, 1993. pp. 27 – 30).
  • [ 與張天樞 ] 柬埔寨, 廣西人民出版社 [with Zhang Tianshu] Cambodia, Guangxi People’s Publishing House, 1995.