柬埔寨是古代海上丝绸之路的重要一站,在中国史书中曾被称为扶南、真腊,创造过辉煌的吴哥文明。本书以时间为序,充分运用史料和*学术研究成果,配以精心拍摄的图片,将柬埔寨独特的历史演变细细梳理。全书运用东方话语向世界展现柬埔寨古老的辉煌,既是一部鲜活的柬埔寨国家文明史,也是生动的中柬友谊交流史。◆ 2018 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Cambodia. The publication of Southeast Asian Civilizations on the Silk Road: Cambodia is thus timely, and how gratifying is its dedication to the promotion of Chinese Cambodian friendly cooperation, especially cultural exchange! Looking through this book
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本书以时间为序,充分运用史料和*学术研究成果,将柬埔寨独特的历史演变细细梳理,既是一部鲜活的柬埔寨国家文明史,也是生动的中柬友谊交流史。 The volume is organized chronologically, and makes full use of historical materials and some of the most recent academic research. It presents a vivid cultural history of Cambodian culture, and of Sino-Cambodian exchange.
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顾佳赟,男,江苏南通人,毕业于北京外国语大学。2003年至今,在北京外国语大学亚非学院柬埔寨语教研室任教。现任北京外国语大学亚非学院副院长,兼任教育部国别和区域研究备案中心柬埔寨研究中心主任。主要研究领域:印支政治研究,柬埔寨政治文化和历史文化。 The author of this book, Dr. Gu Jiayun, is from Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He has been teaching Cambodian and researching Cambodian politics and culture for many years. He is now Vice Dean of the School of Asian and African Studies and Director of the Cambodia Research Center at Beijing Foreign Studies University.
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Prologue: The Silk Road and Khmer Civilization1 Khmer Civilization Along the Mekong River: Prehistory to the Early Common Era2 Funana Kingdom Named After a Mountain: From the First Century CE to the End of Sixth3 Chenlaa Kingdom Set Between a River and Mountains: From the Mid-Sixth Century to the Latter Half of Eighth4 The Magnificent Angkor Empire: From the Start of Ninth Century to the First Half of the Fifteenth5 The Decline of the Khmer Empire: From the First Half of the Fifteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth6 Rebirth of the Nation: Post-World War II OnwardEpilogue: Cambodia Today and the Maritime Silk RoadReference WorksEditorial Note
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Prologue: The Silk Road and Khmer Civilization
The kingdom of Cambodia, known as Khmer in ancient times, is situated on the Indochinese Peninsular. It is bordered to the northeast by Laos, to the east and southeast by Vietnam, to the west and northwest by Thailand, and faces the Gulf of Thailand to the south. With its brilliant civilization, it was an important country on the ancient Maritime Silk Road.The formation of the Silk Road represents, without a doubt, a magnificent achievement in respect of collaboration between the historic great civilizations of the world. Many civilizations that were active over a considerable period on the Silk Road, however, have now disappeared from the course of history, their traces either covered in dust or completely vanished. Others, in contrast, have survived the fissions and fusions of history and remain in existence today. These are important nodes, in both time and space, along the Silk Road, providing excellent vantage points for global trade and interactions between civilizations. One such is the Khmer civilization. Ancient Khmer was an important seaport country on the Maritime Silk Road in the South China Sea, as well as the oldest monarchic society in Southeast Asia. Khmer culture was closely linked with two other great civilizations: China and India. On the one hand, Indian religious thought formed the basis for the system of rule in the ancient Khmer empire. On the other, ancient Khmer benefited immensely from exchange with China in such fields as commerce, politics, religion, and culture, for a time becoming the political, religious, and cultural hub of the Indochinese Peninsular. Many accounts relating to Khmer occur in ancient Chinese chronicles. In the Account of the Nanman Nanman zhuan volume of the Annals of the Later Han Dynasty Hou Han shu, Khmer is recorded as Jiubushi; in the Annals of the Yuan Dynasty Yuan shu, as Ganbuxi or Ganbucha; and in the well-known Customs of Cambodia Zhenla fengtu ji, as Ganbeizhi. The Chinese name Jianpuzhai Cambodia started to become widespread during the Wanli reign period 15731620 of the Ming dynasty, and remains current today.The ancient Silk Road originates in the mid-second century BCE. It was the route that Zhang Qian, imperial envoy of the Han dynasty, travelled to the Western Regions Xiyua Han-period term for the area west of the Yumen Pass, including what is now Xinjiang and parts of Central Asia. Later, it came to encompass an overland network of trade routes that connected the Chinese civilization with the rest of the world. This land route started from Changan now Xian, and passed through various countries in Central and Western Asia to reach the Mediterranean. For similar trading reasons, the Maritime Silk Road, connecting the various countries around the South China Sea with India, took shape at about the same time. A trip out and back along the Maritime Silk Road is described in detail in the Treatise on Geography Dili zhi volume of the Annals of the Former Han Dynasty Han shu: From the fortress of Rinan in modern Vietnam, passing Xuwen now Guangdong Province in China and Hepu now Guangxi, we sailed for about five months to a country called Duyuan probably in modern Sumatra or western Malaysia. We then sailed for another four months to the country of Yilumo now Myanmar, and then on for more than twenty days to arrive at the country of Chenli along the Irrawaddy River of Myanmar. From there we went overland for more than ten days to reach the country of Fugan Dulu, and then sailed for more than two months to Huangzhi on the coast of IndiaFrom Huangzhi, we sailed for about eight months to Pizong perhaps in modern Singapore, Sumatra or the Malay Peninsula, then back to Xianglin in Rinan. A reconstruction of the complete Maritime Silk Road at that time shows that the starting point of the route was either a seaport in Guangdong or Guangxi in China, or one in central Vietnam, and the end point was in southeastern India. This Maritime Silk Road not only connected China, Southeast Asia, and India but also, through merchants in India, extended to the Greek and Roman city states, and on into the rest of Europe.For thousands of years, the overland and maritime trade routes have enabled close connection between the continents of Asia and Europe. Moving along these routes, however, were not only merchants, but also thousands of other travelers, including pilgrims, priests, monks and adventurers. Thus, over and above the traditional function of trade, the routes acquired a connotation of spreading culture. Along their path, the collision and blending of cultures have left a vast number of cultural remains and multilingual resources, constituting a distinctive historical record.In modern times, further to intense research by scholars in China and elsewhere, the notion of silk, once a luxurious commodity in great demand on the overland and maritime trade routes, gradually came to represent a cultural symbol for the particular characteristics of these trade routes. The concept of the Silk Road thus emerged. In the late nineteenth century, the German geographer and geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen 18331905 coined the term Seidenstrasse Silk Road as the name for the ancient route through the Western Regions travelled by the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian. Then, at the beginning of twentieth century, French sinologist Edouard Chavannes 18651918 defined this term as referring to two routes: the maritime and the overland routes. In the 1950s, the Chinese scholar Ji Xianlin 19112009, in his study of how Chinese silk arrived in India and the silk trade route that traversed Asia and Europe, identified five trails: the South China Sea, the Western Regions, Tibet, Myanmar, and Annam now Vietnam. Thereafter, a more complete picture of the Silk Road, spanning over two thousand years in time, extending north and south and running east and west in space, has emerged. Today, the notion of the Silk Road has become the main vehicle for conveying the historical records and cultural concepts of civilizations along the trade routes and in their vicinity. Each individual civilization along these routes is independent but connected to the others around it, unique but influenced by the others. Since 2013, when the Chinese head of state, Xi Jinping, proposed an important initiative to jointly build the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road, memories of the historic Silk Road in the countries along its routes have been reawakened. Among these, historical records of the ancient Khmer empire are dusted off and demand our attention.