SUN, Laichen
Visiting Research Fellow
Area Studies I
Early modern Southeast Asian history
Research Interests
My current research focuses on the early modern period (c. 1350-1800),
including Asian gunpowder technology, interaction between mainland Southeast
Asia (especially Burma and Vietnam) and China, and defining an "Upper
Southeast Asia" which aims at seeking Southeast Asian "cultural
space" in South China (including Hainan and Taiwan) and Northeast
India.
Academic Career
- 1980-1984
- B.A. (History), Zhengzhou University, China
- 1984-1987
- M.A. (Southeast Asian history), Peking University, China
- 1992-1994
- M.A. (Southeast Asian history), Northern Illinois University
- 1994-2000
- Ph. D. (Southeast Asian history), University of Michigan
- 2003
- Visiting Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore
- 2000-2007
- Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton
- 2007-present
- Associate Professor, California State University, Fullerton
Publications
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- Co-editor (with Geoff Wade), Southeast Asia in the 15th Century: The Ming Factor (Singapore: Singapore University Press, forthcoming).
- "Assessing the Ming Role in China’s Southern Expansion." In Geoff
Wade & Sun Laichen, ed., Southeast Asia in the 15th Century (forthcoming; see above).
- "Shan Gems, Chinese Silver, and the Rise of Shan Principalities in
Northern Burma, c. 1450-1527." In Geoff Wade & Sun Laichen, ed.,
Southeast Asia in the 15th Century (forthcoming; see above).
- "The Burmese Bells and Chinese Eroticism: On Southeast Asia’s Cultural
Influence on China." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 38, 2 (June 2007): 247-273.
- "On Studying the ‘Burmo-Chinese’ Historical Relationship: Centering
on China’s Cultural Influence on Early Burma 論’緬中關係史’ 的研究—以中國文化對早期緬甸的影響問題為中心."
Ya Tai Yanjiu luncong亞太研究論叢 [北京大學] 3 (2006): 210-233 (in Chinese)
- "東部亞洲の火器時代c. 1390-1683" (An age of gunpowder in Eastern Asia,
c. 1390-1683" ). Translated by Nakajima Gakushuo中島樂章. Kyushu Daigaku
Toyoshi ronshu九州大学東洋史論集34 (April 2006): 1-10
- "Chinese Military Technology Transfers and the Emergence of Northern
Mainland Southeast Asia, c. 1390-1527." Journal of Southeast Asian
Studies 34, 3 (2003): 495-517 (Chinese translation "明朝中國軍事技術的傳播和東南亞北部大陸的崛起"
by Li Xinping 李新平& Qiu Puyan 邱普艷 appears in Zhongguo Dongnanya Yanjiuhui
tongxun中國東南亞研究會通訊1 [2005]: 27-39)
- "Chinese Gunpowder Technology and Dai Viet: c. 1390-1497." In
Nhung Tuyết Trần & Anthony Reid, ed., Viet Nam: Borderless Histories
(Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press), pp. 72-120 (Also published
in the Working Papers Series #11, 2003 by the Asia Research Institute,
National University of Singapore; partially translated by "BBC Vietnamese"
as "Công nghệ quân sự TQ và Đại Việt" ).
- "Chinese Historical Sources on Burma: A Bibliography of Primary and
Secondary Works." Journal of Burma Studies (Special Issue) 2 (1997): 1-116.
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