Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries / / David G. Marr, A.C. Milner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: G. Marr, David,; Milner, A.C.,
• MitwirkendeR: Casparis, J. Q. de,; Christie, Jan Wisseman,; Ciungwu, Wang,; Fox, James J.,; Gutman, Pamela,; Jacques, Claude,; Kulke, Hermann,; Loofs-Wissowa, Helmut,; Mabbett, lan,; Marr, David G.,; Milner, A. C.,; Quy, John S.,; Stargardt, Janice,; Taylor, Keith,; Vallibhotama, Srisakra,; Vickery, Michael,; Vngar, E. S.,; Vuong, Tran Quoc,; Whitmore, John K.,; Wolters, O. W.,; Worsley, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [1986]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 1986
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

Southeast Asia has sometimes been portrayed as a static place. In the ninth to fourteenth centuries, however, the region experienced extensive trade, bitter wars, kingdoms rising and falling, ethnic groups on the move, the construction of impressive monuments and debate about profound religious issu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. The Early and the Imperial Kingdom in Southeast Asian History
• 2. Hydrau lie Works and Southeast Asian Polities
• 3. Some Notes on Relations between Central and local (jovernment in Ancient Java
• 4. Negara, Mandala, and Despotic State: Images of Early Java
• 5. Some Remarks on Early State Formation in Cambodia
• 6. "Elephants Can Actually Swim": Contemporary Chinese Views of Late Ly Dai Viet
• 7. Authority and Legitimacy in 11th Century Vietnam
• 8. From Myth to History: Imagined Polities in 14th Century Vietnam
• 9. Shipshape Societies: Boat Symbolism and Political Systems in Insular Southeast Asia
• 10. Changing Perspectives in Island Southeast Asia
• 11. Political and Cultural Continuities at Dvaravati Sites
• 12. The True and the Corbel Arch in Mainland Southeast Asian Monumental Architecture
• 13. Vietnamese Ceramics and Cultural Identity: Evidence from the Ly and T ran Dynasties
• 14. Traditions, Acculturation, Renovation: The Evolutional Pattern of Vietnamese Culture
• 15. Symbolism of Kingship in Arakan
• 16. Buddhism in Champa
• 17. The Ordering of (jenerations: Change and Continuity in Old Javanese Kinship
• 18. Sources on Economic Activities in Khmer and Cham Lands
• 19. Narrative Bas-Reliefs at Candi Surawana
• 20. Possibilities for a Reading of the 1293-1357 Period in the Vietnamese Annals
• Index