Book Chapters by Derek Heng
The Maritime Silk Road Global Connectivities, Regional Nodes, Localities Edited by Franck Billé, Sanjyot Mehendale and James W. Lankton, 2022
Asian Borderlands presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlan... more Asian Borderlands presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia-the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania. Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences and humanities. The series explores the social, cultural, geographic, economic and historical dimensions of border-making by states, local communities and flows of goods, people and ideas. It considers territorial borderlands at various scales (national as well as supra-and sub-national) and in various forms (land borders, maritime borders), but also presents research on social borderlands resulting from border-making that may not be territorially fixed, for example linguistic or diasporic communities. List of Figures 1.1 Ortelius's historical map of the Indian Ocean, with sea snakes off the coast of India 1.2 The production of historical space 1.3 Viewshed of selected features near Berenike, Egypt 1.4 Sea-to-land visibility in the Red Sea 1.5 Ras Fartak/Cape Syagros, viewed from the west 1.6 Ras Filuk/Cape Elephant, viewed from the west 1.7 Map of the Aksumite kingdom; Red Sea coast to the left 1.8 South India with the temple at Muziris 2.1 Sea routes connecting the Islamic Middle East and China described by Ibn Khurradādhbih and Jia Dan 2.2 A prototype of Balkhī School world maps (10th century) 2.3 The five great seas described by Zhou Qufei, Lingwai daida ([1178] 1999) 2.4 Map in Zhi Pan, Fozu tongji (1265-1270, 255) 2.5 The Eastern Ocean/junk zone and the Western Ocean/dhow zone 4.1 Scale models ships 4.2 Map of excavated ships in the Southeast Asian waters Localities 7 Chinese Ceramics on the Maritime Silk Road
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, 2022
Southeast Asia has been a critical nexus of the economic interactions between the Indian Ocean, C... more Southeast Asia has been a critical nexus of the economic interactions between the Indian Ocean, China Seas, and the Pacific Ocean littoral. Trade and commerce developed from the early first to late second millennia involving shipping and commercial networks both within Southeast Asia and from further afield. Accompanying these networks were the region's port cities, which held these networks together, pulling the subregional networks of trade and commerce into one regional economic sphere. The nature of trade and commerce was affected by the different ecological and economic zones of Southeast Asia. This in turn affected the types of products that were traded and the communications links that connected the different subregions to the outside world. In addition, economic interactions with regions further afield and the geopolitical changes that these regions underwent also determined the types of products that flowed into and through Southeast Asia, as well as the way in which commerce was conducted.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
Southeast Asia has been a critical nexus of the economic interactions between the Indian Ocean, C... more Southeast Asia has been a critical nexus of the economic interactions between the Indian Ocean, China Seas, and the Pacific Ocean littoral. Trade and commerce developed from the early first to late second millennia involving shipping and commercial networks both within Southeast Asia and from further afield. Accompanying these networks were the region’s port cities, which held these networks together, pulling the subregional networks of trade and commerce into one regional economic sphere. The nature of trade and commerce was affected by the different ecological and economic zones of Southeast Asia. This in turn affected the types of products that were traded and the communications links that connected the different subregions to the outside world. In addition, economic interactions with regions further afield and the geopolitical changes that these regions underwent also determined the types of products that flowed into and through Southeast Asia, as well as the way in which commer...
Singapore. The scripting of a national history: Singapore and its pasts By Hong Lysa and Huang Jianli Singapore: NUS Press, 2008. Pp. 300. Bibliography, Index
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009
interpretations are left dangling, as the book does not provide enough information about Ong and ... more interpretations are left dangling, as the book does not provide enough information about Ong and others involved: for example, are they Christian, Buddhist or practitioners of what is called ‘Chinese religion’ in Malaysia, the latter often having close, positive associations with Hindu polytheism in Malaysia and Singapore? This book may be of interest to Deluze scholars and followers of the Stanford University Press Cultural Memories series, as an example of how their general theories can be applied indiscriminately to (but in no way challenged or changed by) cultural others around the world. It certainly is a good example within contemporary American anthropology of the triumph of trendy theory over detailed ethnography (with such passé concerns as local linguistic competence). Scholars interested in and knowledgeable about the latter are likely to find the depth of descriptive material, presentation and interpretation disappointing.
Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 2019
Premodern Southeast Asian history has primarily been predicated upon the exploitation of Chinese ... more Premodern Southeast Asian history has primarily been predicated upon the exploitation of Chinese written documents. Reliance has been placed on several texts that detail Southeast Asian polities, products, and their respective societies. As indigenously generated sources of data have become available, primarily through archaeology, the trend has been to seek convergence between these two bodies of information. The availability of searchable digital databases has rendered Chinese documents to be open to the discoveries of new information previously unknown to historians of premodern Southeast Asia. This unutilized information has the potential of throwing new light on previously held conclusions. This article seeks to make an argument for the exploitation and potential of digitized Chinese textual databases, through keyword search methodologies, in expanding our understanding of Southeast Asia’s past, as well as the potential challenges that need to be addressed so that this new sour...
Singapore in Global History, 2011
Casting Singapore’s History in the Longue Durée
Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, 2018
Ships form a critical component of the study of Southeast Asia’s interaction both within itself a... more Ships form a critical component of the study of Southeast Asia’s interaction both within itself as well as with the major centers of Asia and the West. Shipwreck data, accrued from archaeologically excavated shipwreck sites, provide information on the evolving maritime traditions that traversed Southeast Asian waters over the last two millennia, including shipbuilding and navigational technologies and knowledge, usage of construction materials and techniques, types of commodities carried by the shipping networks, shipping passages developed through Southeast Asia, and the key ports of call that vessels would arrive at as part of the network of economic and social exchanges that came to characterize maritime interactions.
Migration and Membership Regimes in Global and Historical Perspective, 2013
Situating Temasik within the Larger Regional Context: Maritime Asia and Malay State Formation in the Pre-Modern Era
Singapore in Global History
Bibliography 10 singapore in global history events' but of the ordinary and the prosaic, which to... more Bibliography 10 singapore in global history events' but of the ordinary and the prosaic, which together provides an alternative version of the past. It eschews the laudatory tone adopted by some previous works on Singapore, which stress the nation's remarkable economic success in the world. Instead, it situates Singapore within a larger picture as one of many societies attempting to cope with the global movement of a vast number of peoples, ideas, and businesses. Here Singapore is not viewed as an isolated community with unique problems and solutions, but as a society that is always responding and itself contributing to rapid changes fuelled by an explosion of information made possible by the latest technology. Singapore in Global History is a testament to the increasing sophistication displayed by those now engaged in reconstructing Singapore's past. These contributions should be viewed as examples of the way that Singaporeans have sought to explain parts of their past by adopting a global perspective while continuing to acknowledge local agency-an achievement that Jerry Bentley would have appreciated. This is precisely the type of study that is needed to create complementary narratives to balance the dominant political ones that focus on the achievements of the founding fathers of Singapore.
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Studies on the international history of fourteenth-century Singapore have been hitherto limited t... more Studies on the international history of fourteenth-century Singapore have been hitherto limited to external trade conducted by local inhabitants, and material consumption patterns that this trade enabled them to develop. Broader regional cultural influences have been postulated though not clearly demonstrated, given scant textual records and limited material culture remains. This article seeks to examine the external influences, adaptation and assimilation in the production and consumption of fourteenth-century Singapore. In particular, it looks at three aspects of Singapore's pre-colonial existence — modes of economic production, patterns of consumption of international products, and the articulation of high culture vis-à-vis external entities. By examining available archaeological, epigraphic, art historical and cartographic data from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries, this article postulates how distinct consumption patterns may have developed among different ri...
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Book Chapters by Derek Heng