Van Khac Champa Tai Bao Tang Dieu Khac Cham - Da Nang

摘要

Since the Second World War stopped activities of the French scholars in Vietnam, Campa (or Champa) history was long neglected. The Chams as an ethnic minority within Vietnam had few, if any, opportunities to study their own past during the civil war and few scholars paid any attention to the ancient history of the region before the end of the twentieth century. The last decade, however, has shown a rapid renaissance of Campa studies. The history of the ancient kingdoms of Campa, so far generally viewed through George Maspero's courageous narrative Le royaume de Champa (1928), was the topic of two major international conferences. The first, 'Workshop on New Scholarship on Champa', was held at the National University of Singapore on 6-7 August 2004, while the second, 'New Research in Historical Campa Studies', was held at the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO) in Paris on 18-19 June 2012. Chams themselves held a conference on contemporary issues in San Jose on 7-8 June 2007. These conferences reveal considerable efforts to reconstruct the complex socio-economic, political, linguistic, religious, and cultural processes of Campa and Cham history.