A Few and Miscellaneous Pi-Chi Jottings on Early Indonesia

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ID7990582
AuthorsO W Wolters (corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume36
Pages49-49
Publication date1983-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndonesia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0019-7289 • E-ISSN: 2164-8654
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3351026
OpenAlexW2323840442
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited1

Those interested in "Sriwijayan" studies know that inscriptions and a diverse range of archaeological materials have now taken precedence over Chinese docu ments as research tools.The pilgrim l-ching's writings, the chapters on foreign countries in the Chinese dynastic histories, and Chao Ju-ku a 's Chu-fan chih were translated as long ago as the second half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries, and since then nothing of comparable importance has come to light in Chinese sources.1 The participants in the SPAFA-sponsored "Sriwijayan Project" have properly recommended that what has already been translated needs to be catalogued, verified, and reconsidered alongside other sources of information, especially archaeological evidence now being unearthed in southeastern Sumatra and peninsular Th a ila n d .2C u rrent field research is gradually shifting the discussion from the shopworn topic of the location of Sriwijaya's capital to the substance of Sriwijayan history, which is the geomorphological environment and political systems of early Malay culture.Nevertheless, the hope that new Chinese materials will be discovered should not be extinguished.The translated sources represent only a tiny fraction of Chi nese w ritings.An immense number of "notebooks," or miscellaneous works (p i-c h i), amounting, perhaps, to hundreds of volumes, remains to be e x p lo re d.3 Th e p i-c h i

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