Southeast Asia

Roundtable Session

Early Modern Cambodia in its Southeast Asian Maritime World: Recent Perspectives

Despite intense interest in Southeast Asia's Early Modern period, 15th-18th century Cambodia has largely been overlooked.  Conventional wisdom holds that the Middle Khmer period, triggered by the "collapse" of Angkor and political shifts southward to a series of capitals, spelled the end of Cambodia's importance in a broader Southeast Asian world. From the unstudied Chinese ceramics from the Koh S'dech shipwreck of Koh Kong island to the cities of Cambodia after Angkor, recent archaeological and historical research using path-breaking technologies suggests otherwise, and offers new insights on roles that Cambodia's capitals and ports played in the political economy of the region.

Organizer(s)

• KU

  Krisna Uk

  Association for Asian Studies, United Kingdom

Chair(s)

• MS

  Miriam Stark

  University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Discussant(s)

• TC

  Thomas Chandler

  Monash University, Australia
• PH

  Piphal Heng

  Harvard Yenching Institute