The Cham of Vietnam: History, Society and Art - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 997169459X ISBN 13: 9789971694593

Publisher: National University of Singapore Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. The Indianized civilization of this Austronesian-speaking group flourished between roughly the third and fifteenth centuries, and they competed with the Vietnamese and Khmers for influence in mainland Southeast Asia, but the Cham territories eventually became part of modern Vietnam. Written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, art history, and linguistics, the essays in The Cham of Vietnam contribute to a revisionist overview of Cham history by re-assessing the ways the Cham have been studied by different generations of scholars of what "Champa" has represented over the centuries of its history. Several chapters focus on archaeological work in central Vietnam and position recent discoveries within the broader framework of Cham history, but there are also discussions of Cham economy, society and culture. Through this study of a people that did not become a nation-state, the book provides penetrating insights into the history of Vietnam and on the broader dynamic of Southeast Asian history.

About this title

About the Author

TRAN Ky Phuong was a curator of the Museum of Champa Sculpture in Danang, Vietnam, from 1978 until 1998, and is now an independent researcher on Cham art and cultural area studies in Central Vietnam.

Bruce LOCKHART is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore.

Edition details

• Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 997169459X
• ISBN 13: 9789971694593
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Lockhart Bruce, Tran Ky Phuong