Champa: Territories and Networks of a Southeast Asian Kingdom

435 pages, illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. 'In the past quarter century, Champa scholarship has been seeking ways out of the interpretative framework inherited from Georges Maspero s Le royaume de Champa, which portrayed Champa as a unitary kingdom of provinces ruled by absolute kings. Scholars have since been working to revise this portrait, to develop new thinking about the way the kingdom and its territories were structured, and also to critique Maspero s decision to end his history of Champa with the 1471 capture of the Chà Bàn citadel and fall of Vijaya. Much new data has been produced in recent decades, thanks especially to the access to Champa field sites enjoyed since the 1990s by international scholars under Vietnam s open door policy, and to the resources for research and discussion now available to Vietnamese scholars. Several long-term joint projects have, more-over, brought Vietnamese and overseas expertise to bear on archaeological sites or collections of documents related to Champa.'