eLibrary: Champa 1250-1471

Champa flourished for over a millennium along Vietnam’s central coast, blending Indic, Khmer, and later Buddhist influences. This exhibition showcases temple sculptures—both freestanding and architectural—revealing a rich visual language shaped by devotion, exchange, and conflict. Most works date before the kingdom’s fall to Dai Viet forces in the 15th century.

This is the latest version of an electronic library of resources supporting the exhibition. It offers free and immediate access to online resources for anyone wanting to explore further the context of the museum’s artifacts.  As the museum develops, more resources, in more languages, will be added.

NOTE: Some of these links come from Academia.edu and Researchgate.net. These require a free one-time registration. To research further yourselves, you may consider registering with Jstore.org which gives limited but free monthly access to its collections

Articles

Boisselier, J., 1991. The Art of The Kingdom of Champa: Its Original and Diversity. SPAFA Journal (Old series 1991-2013), 1(2), pp.2-10.

Childress, D.H., 2017.  The Lost World of Cham: The Transpacific Voyages of the Champe. SCB Distributors. 2017.

Chou, M.K., 2020. Communities & Cultural Exchanges of Champa: the Art of the Chams in Central and Southern Vietnam, PhD  Thesis UCLA

Dinh, D.T., 2022. Champa cultural imprints in northern Vietnam through historical and archaeological resources. The Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 6(3), 2022. pp.46-57.

Đỗ, T.G., Suzuki, T., Nguyễn, V.Q. and Yamagata, M., 2017. Champa Citadels: An Archaeological and Historical Study. Asian Review of World Histories, 5(2), pp.70-105.

Giang, D.T., 2016. Diplomacy, trade and networks: Champa in the Asian commercial context (7th-10th Centuries). Moussons. Recherche en sciences humaines sur l’Asie du Sud-Est, (27), pp.59-82.

Giang, D.T., e.a., 2020. Champa Citadels: An Archaeological and Historical Study.

Griffiths, A., Pichon, S. and Southworth, W.A., 2023. Buddhist vihāras in Campā, from the 7th to the 14th centuries. Buddhism, Law and Society, 7, 275-326.

Guy, J., Kỳ Phương, T. and Lockhart, B.M., 2011. Pan-Asian Buddhism and the Bodhisattva Cult in Champa. The Cham of Vietnam: History, Society and Art. Singapore, pp.300-22.

Katsimpalis, K.T., 2009. Po Nagar Temple: Evidence of Cultural Development and Transition in the Champa Kingdom, MA thesis, Colorado

Momoki, S. A short introduction to Champa studies. 重点領域研究総合的地域研究成果報告書シリーズ: 総合的地域研究の手法確立: 世界と地域の共存のパラダイムを求めて, 30, 1996. pp.35-42.

Mufrodi, A., The Spice Route and The Sub-Urban Muslim Community in South East Asia. Sunan Kalijaga: International Journal of Islamic Civilization, 5(1), pp.81-101.

Muhamad, A. and Saiffuddin, A.H., 2022. The distribution of the ancient Malay Kingdoms in Indochina from the first century to the fourteenth century from the context of the spatial and ethnoarchaeology..

Mus, P., 1933. VIII. Cultes indiens et indigènes au Champa. Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 33(1), pp.367-410. Phuong, T.K. and Lockhart, B. eds. 2011. The Cham of Vietnam: History, society and art. NUS Press.

Nakamura, R., 2020. A Journey of Ethnicity: In Search of the Cham of Vietnam, Cambridge (sample of intro and parts of Chapter One)

Patra, B., 2017. Kalinga and Champa: A Study in Ancient Maritime Relations. Odisha Review, pp.22-26.

Schweyer, A.V., 2018. Buddhism in Champa. Vibrancy in Stone: Masterpieces from the Danang Museum of Cham Sculpture, 71-78.

Schweyer, A.V., 2010 The birth of Champa. In Crossing borders in southeast asian archaeology (p. 17).

Schweyer, A.V., The Chams in Vietnam: a great unknown civilization.

Sox, D.G. 1972. Resource-use systams of Ancient Champa. MA Thesis, Fairfield

Tran, K.P., 2006. Cultural Resource and Heritage Issues of Historic Champa States: Champa Origins, Reconfirmed Nomenclatures and Preservation of Sites.

Tran, K.P. and Anh, N.T.T., 2021. A proposed relationship between Champa and Chola dynasties during the 11th and 13th centuries: A view from the historical sources and artistic evidences SPAFA Journal

Wang, X., 2008. The Arabs Living in Coastal China during the 10th-13th Centuries. Revue historique de l'océan Indien, (15).202-214.

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