Early Southeast Asia : : Selected Essays / / O. W. Wolters; ed. by Craig J. Reynolds.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Wolters, O. W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Reynolds, Craig J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)

A collection of the classic essays of O. W. Wolters, reflecting his radiant and meticulous lifelong study of premodern Southeast Asia, its literature, trade, government, and vanished cities. Included is an intellectual biography by the editor, which covers Wolters's professional lives as a member of the Malayan Civil Service and, later, as a scholar. This volume displays the extraordinary range of Oliver Wolters's work in early Indonesian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Thai history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- EDITOR'S NOTE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- SOURCES -- THE PROFESSIONAL LIVES OF O. W. WOLTERS -- PART I. SOUTHEAST ASIA AS A REGION -- CHAPTER ONE. SOUTHEAST ASIA AS A SOUTHEAST ASIAN FIELD OF STUDY -- CHAPTER TWO. EARLY SOUTHEAST ASIAN POLITICAL SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER THREE. CHINA IRREDENTA: THE SOUTH -- PART II. THE LONG DUREE OF MALAY HISTORY -- CHAPTER FOUR. STUDYING SRIVIJAYA -- CHAPTER FIVE. RESTUDYING SOME CHINESE WRITINGS ON SRIWIJAYA -- PART III. MAINLAND MANDALAS -- CHAPTER SIX. AYUDHYA AND THE REARWARD PART OF THE WORLD -- CHAPTER SEVEN.JAYAVARMAN II'S MILITARY POWER: THE TERRITORIAL FOUNDATION OF THE ANGKOR EMPIRE -- CHAPTER EIGHT. KHMER "HINDUISM" IN THE SEVENTH CENTURY -- PART IV. VIETNAMESE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE -- CHAPTER NINE. HISTORIANS AND EMPERORS IN VIETNAM AND CHINA: COMMENTS ARISING OUT OF LÊ VÃN HUU'S HISTORY, PRESENTED TO THE TRAN COURT IN 1272 -- CHAPTER TEN. PHAM SVMANH'S POEMS WRITTEN WHILE PATROLLING THE VIETNAMESE NORTHERN BORDER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. ON TELLING A STORY OF VIETNAM IN THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES