EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize

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The EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize has been awarded since 2015 by the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS). The prize is awarded to the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the social sciences, including anthropology, economics, law, politics, international relations, and sociology.

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The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, can be traced back to Indian civilization. Detailed records of a political structure on the territory of what is now Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan, a polity that encompassed the southernmost part of the Indochinese peninsula during the 1st to 6th centuries. Centered at the lower Mekong, Funan is noted as the oldest regional Hindu culture, which suggests prolonged socio-economic interaction with maritime trading partners of the Indosphere in the west. By the 6th century a civilization, called Chenla or Zhenla in Chinese annals, firmly replaced Funan, as it controlled larger, more undulating areas of Indochina and maintained more than a singular centre of power.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Southeast Asia</span> Subregion of the Asian continent

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of Bengal, to the east by Oceania and the Pacific Ocean, and to the south by Australia and the Indian Ocean. Apart from the British Indian Ocean Territory and two out of 26 atolls of the Maldives in South Asia, Maritime Southeast Asia is the only other subregion of Asia that lies partly within the Southern Hemisphere. Mainland Southeast Asia is entirely in the Northern Hemisphere. East Timor and the southern portion of Indonesia are the parts of Southeast Asia that lie south of the equator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chams</span> Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia

The Chams, or Champa people, are an Austronesian ethnic group in Southeast Asia and are the original inhabitants of central Vietnam and coastal Cambodia before the arrival of the Cambodians and Vietnamese, during the expansion of the Khmer Empire (802–1431) and the Vietnamese conquest of Champa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Funan</span> Ancient kingdom located in Indochina, centered on the Mekong Delta

Funan was the name given by Chinese cartographers, geographers and writers to an ancient Indianized state—or, rather a loose network of states (Mandala)—located in mainland Southeast Asia covering parts of present-day Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam that existed from the first to sixth century CE. The name is found in Chinese historical texts describing the kingdom, and the most extensive descriptions a name the people of Funan gave to their polity. Some scholars argued that ancient Chinese scholars has found the records from Yuán Shǐ, the history records of Yuan Dynasty. "Syam Kok and Lo Hu Kok, formerly the Kingdom of Funan, were located to the west of Linyi Kok. The maritime distance was from the capital of Linyi Kok to the capital of Funan Kok. They are separated by about 3,000 li."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National University of Singapore</span> Public research university in Queenstown, Singapore

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merger of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vietnamese people</span> Southeast Asian ethnic group

The Vietnamese people or the Kinh people, also recognized as the Viet people or the Viets, are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day northern Vietnam and southern China who speak Vietnamese, the most widely spoken Austroasiatic language.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wang Gungwu</span> Australian academic

Wang Gungwu, is an Australian historian, sinologist, and writer specialising in the history of China and Southeast Asia. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from China because both it mistakenly implies that all overseas Chinese are the same and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat", under the control of the Chinese government. An expert on the Chinese tianxia concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American Tianxia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Khmer people</span> Ethnic group native to Cambodia

The Khmer people are an Austroasiatic ethnic group native to Cambodia. They comprise over 95% of Cambodia's population of 17 million. They speak the Khmer language, which is part of the larger Austroasiatic language family alongside Mon and Vietnamese.

Benedict F. "Ben" Kiernan is an Australian-born American historian who is the Whitney Griswold Professor Emeritus of History, Professor of International and Area Studies and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elizabeth Becker (journalist)</span> American author and journalist

Elizabeth Becker is an American journalist and author. She has written five books and is best known for her reporting and writing on Cambodia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Bank of Cambodia</span> Central bank of Cambodia

The National Bank of Cambodia is the central bank of Cambodia. The bank's duties include, inter alia, the management of monetary and exchange policies, the regulation of banks and financial institutions, and the control of the national currency, the riel. The bank was established in 1954, after Cambodia obtained its independence from France, taking over from the Institut d'Émission des États du Cambodge, du Laos et du Viet-nam, a short-lived French quasi-central bank that had itself replaced the Banque de l'Indochine two years earlier.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thongchai Winichakul</span> Thai historian

Thongchai Winichakul, is a Thai historian and researcher of Southeast Asian studies. He is professor emeritus of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a chief senior researcher at the Japanese Institute of Developing Economies. He was the president for the Association for Asian Studies in 2013. He has had a major impact on the concept of Thai nationalism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kampuchea Krom</span> Region in Southeast Indochina

Kampuchea Krom is the region variously known as Southern Vietnam, Nam Bo, and the former French Cochinchina. Bordering present-day Cambodia, the region is positioned in Cambodian irredentist narratives as a "once-integral part of the Khmer kingdom that was colonised by France as Cochinchina in the mid-nineteenth century and then ceded to Vietnam in June 1949". This narrative persists despite historical cessations to the ruling Nguyễn Lords of the period, with the latest one occurring in 1770. In the present day, the region roughly corresponds to the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vĩnh Tế Canal</span> Canal in southern Vietnam

The Vĩnh Tế Canal is an 87-kilometre-long (54 mi) canal in southern Vietnam, designed to give the territory of Châu Đốc a direct access to the Hà Tiên sea gate, Gulf of Siam.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tan Tai Yong</span> Singaporean politician

Tan Tai Yong is a Singaporean academic who is the current President of Singapore University of Social Sciences. He served as the President of Yale-NUS College from 2017 to 2022. He is also Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of South Asian Studies, an autonomous university-level research institute in NUS. He was a former Nominated Member of Parliament and served from 2014 to 2015.

Racism in Vietnam has been mainly directed by the majority and dominant ethnic Vietnamese Kinh against ethnic minorities such as Degars (Montagnards), Chams, and the Khmer Krom. It has also been directed against black people from other countries around the world as well.

Anti-Vietnamese sentiment involves hostility or hatred that is directed towards Vietnamese people, or the state of Vietnam. This may be due to negative perceptions created by historical tensions, ethnic negative perceptions, wars, or xenophobic sentiments that emerged from the event of refugee Vietnamese. National or regional discrimination can also occur.

John Norman Miksic is an American-born archaeologist.

The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) is dedicated to promoting scholarly collaboration in Southeast Asian studies across Europe. The primary endeavor of EuroSEAS is the organization of a biennial international conference, which convenes hundreds of Southeast Asia specialists from across the globe. While EuroSEAS membership predominantly comprises scholars from the humanities and social sciences, the association imposes no disciplinary boundaries.

The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize has been awarded since 2015 by the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS). This prize is given to the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the humanities, including archaeology, art history, history, literature, performing arts, and religious studies.

References

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