'Coedes' Histories of Cambodia'
The case against George Coedès, not as an epigraphist but as an 'historian with the wrong framework'.
Publications Books A History of Early South East Asia
A major study on regional and global trade historic phases, their impact on development of polities and kingdoms around 1th-16th...
Publications A proposed relationship between Champa and Chola dynasties during the 11th and 13th centuries
"Although the connection of artistic features of Champa with the characteristics of South Indian art that were first noticed by...Books Bridging The Gulf: Maritime Cultural Heritage of the Western Indian Ocean
Fishing and seafaring in the history of India and her contacts with the rest of the world.
Publications Chen-Li-Fu, A State on the Gulf of Siam at the Beginning of the 13th Century
Where was located Chên Li Fu, a Gulf of Siam State under Khmer influence around the years 1200-1250?
Publications Coastal Connectivity: Long-Term Trading Networks Across the South China Sea
The prehistory of cultural and commercial exchanges across the South China Sea and mainland Southeast Asia.
Publications Contacts between the Upper Thai-Malay Peninsula and the Mediterranean World
This essay presents a selection of artefacts originating from the region of the Mediterranean Sea and mainly dating from the...Publications Early China and the Indian Ocean Networks
Early China’s interactions with the maritime world and the eventual emergence of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) as a leading naval...
Publications Facts and Fiction: The Myth of Suvaṇṇabhūmi Through the Thai and Burmese Looking Glass
More about Suvarnabhumi (Sanskrit) or Suvaṇṇabhūmi (Pali), the 'Golden Land' that attracted Indian sailors to the east.
Publications Indians in Southeast Asia: Sojourners, Settlers, Diasporas
From the earliest times, there were substantial movement of people between the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka and Southeast asia.
Publications Rivers, Oceans, and Spirits: Water Cosmologies, Gender, and Religious Change in Southeast Asia
The centrality of water in Southeast Asian cosmologies.
Publications Routes maritimes et contacts culturels entre la Méditerranée et l'Asia | Maritime Routes and Mediterranean-Asian Cultural Swaps
How the Greeks made their own discovery of the monsoon trade winds.
Themes SEA & Cambodia
Publications Spice Routes and Cultural Influences: The India-Cambodia Culinary Dialogue
A background reading selection about the rich and complex interrelation between India and Cambodia from ancient times to nowadays respective...
Publications The Power of Images: Coin Portraits of Roman Emperors on Jewellery Pendants in Early Southeast Asia
The drive for image imitation in jewelry items and the early Southeast Asian maritime routes
Books Ying-yai Sheng-lan 瀛涯勝覽 | 'The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores'
The reference travelogue of Ma Huan, interperter and translator with Zheng He's flotilla: how China saw the world in the...
Publications Политическая история и политическая организация раннесредневековой Индонезии (V–начало X в.) | Early Indonesian States, 5th-10th centuries
На островах Индонезии в V–VIII вв. сложились индиани-зированные ранние государства.