China & Cambodia

A 1879 French "adaptation" of photographer and geographer John Thomson's "The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China" (1875).

In French

The reference travelogue of Ma Huan, interperter and translator with Zheng He's flotilla: how China saw the world in the early Ming dynasty era.

In English

A useful online resource on Chinese history, literature, religions and philosophies.

In English & Chinese

吴哥数据库的最新收录书籍，周达观于1296年所记录的吴哥见闻《真腊风土记》：1/原本的复印本 2/2016年新版的由中国考古学家夏鼐于1981年所著的真腊风土记校注

In Chinese

Paul Pelliot's groundbreaking translation and annotation of the 13th century account on Angkor by Chinese traveler Zhou Daguan.

In French & Chinese

吴哥数据库的最新收录书籍，周达观于1296年所记录的吴哥见闻《真腊风土记》：1/原本的复印本 2/2016年新版的由中国考古学家夏鼐于1981年所著的真腊风土记校注

In Chinese

Seventy years ago, Prime Minister Nehru went to Angkor Wat and Banteay Srei during a diplomatic mission which took him to China, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

In English

First volume of the monumental work led by Indian scholar Haraprasad Ray, collecting "Data for the study of India-China relations through history."

In English

How a scholar and translator from India at the Chinese Tang court went twice to Chenla to spread the Tantric-Buddhist faith and collect "divine medicine".

In French & Chinese

Probably the most exhaustive study on Chinese descriptions and perceptions of Cambodia in pre-Angkorean and Angkorean times.

In English

Novel insights on Funan and Chenla as reflected in Chinese chronicles, by a renowned linguist.

In French

Pluridisciplinary, encyclopaedic, ambitious and often highly enjoyable synthesis and sum of Angkorean research to the date.

In English

How global trade, spices and maritime routes impacted the links between India and ancient Southeast Asia.

In English

Two major restoration projects in Angkor Thom led by the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (CACH)

In English & Chinese

Academic journal of Chinese archaeology published by the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

While the Angkorian civilization never developed a real monetary system, the kingdoms of Funan and Chenla did use various types of money in their transactions.

In English

First part of King Norodom Sihanouk's memoirs

In English

A pleasant read from a typical French 'grand reporter' of the 1930s who befriended famous journalist Albert Londres.

In French

A reference essay on Cambodian history and culture by Chinese historian Duan Lisheng

In Chinese

From protohistory to traditional craftmanship, from Burma to Sulawesi, a rich collection of studies in Southeast Asia arts.

In French

'In the Context of Intercultural Contacts Between Bronze Age Inhabitants of the Lower Yangtze Valley and Indochina Peninsula'.

In English

Early China’s interactions with the maritime world and the eventual emergence of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) as a leading naval power in the 15th century.

In English

The centrality of water in Southeast Asian cosmologies.

In English

The 1982 handbook of an oustanding collection of art from Japan, Korea, China, The Himalayas, India, Southeast Asia, and Islamic art.

Where did Angkor get horses from?

In English

Online library for access to Chinese books and articles | 用于访问中文书籍和文章的在线图书馆

Photo depository on early Asian architecture nurtured by numerous contributors around the world

The website reflecting work and publications around the collection created by William Willets in 1969 at the University Art Museum, Singapore

Did Western scholars overestimate the scope of "Indian influence" on Southeast Asia?

In English

How the appetite for spices, fragrant woods and aromatics drove Chinese traders and travelers from early times.

In English & Chinese

The circulation of musical instruments around Asia, in particular those in bronze, and what it tells us about regional trade in ancient times.

In English

The prehistory of cultural and commercial exchanges across the South China Sea and mainland Southeast Asia.

In English

The precious metal and its impact on early Southeast Asian civilizations.

In English

The "Island of Khmer" in the accounts of Arab travelers through the centuries.

In French & Arabic

How Khmer culture set apart Sanskrit and Indian-influenced terms for cooking techniques and preparations mostly for rituals and religion-related foods.

In English & Khmer

An English translation of Bernard-Philippe Groslier's notes on Chinese ceramics in Southeast Asia

In English

The Guangdong Museum 2015 exhibition was the first time Khmer artwork from the Funan, Zhenla and Angkorian periods were showcased in China.

In Chinese

A fascinating study on Khmer and Yunnan minority interconnection through music and dance

In English & Chinese

Mon and Mon-Khmer tribes came from the North, not from the South: new insights on an old controversy among linguists and historians.

In English

Reconstructing the geographical and political entities in the "Chenla of the Land" and "Chenla of the Water" areas during pre-Angkorean times.

In English

A useful synthesis of what we know about Mainland Southeast Asia before the development of larger polities, cities-states and empires

In English

Searching the source of the Khmer civilization in the Mekong Delta.

In English

Where was located Chên Li Fu, a Gulf of Siam State under Khmer influence around the years 1200-1250?

In English & Chinese

Locally-made ceramics in Bayon and Banteay Chhmar bas-reliefs.

In English

Tomb excavations around Angkor and Phnom Kulen areas show a persistent presence of ceramic objects imported from China.

In English

A major essay on Southeast Asian trade roads and the growing involvement of agrarian States in worlwide commerce, 7th-14th centuries.

In English

An extraordinary friendship on the fringes of the Cold War

In English

A sum of early China studies by French Jesuit missionaries, from Tibet to Japan to early Cambodia

In French

A reference essay on Cambodian history and culture by Chinese historian Duan Lisheng

In Chinese

A major study on regional and global trade historic phases, their impact on development of polities and kingdoms around 1th-16th centuries Southeast asia.

In English