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Research on Chinese and Southeast Asian history, life experiences in Southeast Asia
“Preliminary Thoughts on Mayi/Moyi in Pre-Modern Chinese Records and Modern Interpretations”, https://repository.crossasia.org/receive/crossasia_mods_00000014# Johannes L. Kurz, April 2024 Arab geographer Ya‘qūbī (9th cent.) referred to three “kingdoms” in the neighbourhood of China, transcribed by Gabriel Ferrand as “Ṭarasul”, “Mūša”, and “Māyd” (Ferrand 1913, 48). Gordon H. Luce in an attempt to reconstruct the original name of…
Johannes Kurz March 2024 In 1079 representatives from a place called Sanfoqi 三佛齊 in, probably, Sumatra submitted tribute items to the Chinese imperial court in Kaifeng. The Wenxian tongkao records these items as follows: “During the Yuanfeng era envoys arrived twice[1] bringing with them local products such as silver, pearls, as well as polü and…
https://doi.org/10.48796/20240111-000 The present article examines critically the claim made by Oliver W. Wolters in 1966 about a shift of the capital of Sanfoqi (most likely southeastern Sumatra) from Palembang to Jambi between 1079-1082 based on his reading and interpreting of several premodern Chinese sources. A reexamination of the same texts reveals that they, by no…
Johannes Kurz 3 January 2024 On my way to the Southern Tang tombs in 2008, to my surprise I noticed the Brunei flag being flown in an area along the main road. On the return trip to the city we asked the driver to stop there for a few minutes, and I then took a…
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