Early Southeast Asia:Selected Essays Book

Editor's Note vii

List of Abbreviations ix

Sources xi

The Professional Lives of O. W. Wolters Craig J. Reynolds 1

Part I Southeast Asia as a Region 39

1 Southeast Asia as a Southeast Asian Field of Study 39

2 Early Southeast Asian Political Systems 57

3 China Irredenta: The South 65

Part II The Long Durée of Malay History 77

4 Studying Śrīvijaya 77

5 Restudying Some Chinese Writings on Sriwijaya 109

Part III Mainland Mandalas 149

6 Ayudhyā and the Rearward Part of the World 149

7 Jayavarman II's Military Power: The Territorial Foundation of the Angkor Empire 165

8 Khmer "Hinduism" in the Seventh Century 177

Part IV Vietnamese Historiography and Literature 193

9 Historians and Emperors in Vietnam and China: Comments Arising out of Lê Văn Hu'u's History, Presented to the Trân Court in 1272 193

10 Ph&adot;m Su' M&adot;nh's Poems Written while Patrolling the Vietnamese Northern Border in the Middle of the Fourteenth Century 211

11 On Telling a Story of Vietnam in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 225