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[edit] Chinese Influence Clearly visible
These kingdoms prospered from the Spice Route, trade among themselves and the Indian kingdoms. The influence of Indian culture is visible in the script, grammar, religious observances, festivities, architecture and artistic idioms even today. The blend of Indian, Chinese influences and native cultures, created a new synthesis. The Southeast Asian region was previously called by the name Indochina. The influence of Indian and Chinese cultures are both strongly visible in this region even today. The reception of Hinduism and Buddhism aided the civilizational maturity of these kingdoms but also subjected them (in rare cases) to aggression by Indian and Chinese rulers. And though Southeast Asia is an economic powerhouse in its own right, the need to balance Chinese economic and political influence with that of India remains an important factor for the region. Block quote
This says the blend of Indian and Chinese culture, no country in Southeast Asia absorbed both Chinese and Indian culture equally and blending them. The only Indo-Chinese country with visible Chinese influence is Vietnam, and it did not have substantial Indian influence. I am changing it. CanCanDuo 02:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
In Vietnam, Champa had both Indian and Chinese culture. Also in Vietnam, Funan clearly had a strong Chinese trading connection and regular diplomatic relations; a cultural connection with China is probable there as well. (RookZERO 00:07, 11 June 2007 (UTC))
- I disagree. Modern Vietnam is dominated by the kinhs, who are heavily sinocized. Any Indian influence from them is either from china, the chams or cambodia. Champa is wholly Indian in culture, from its arts to its script. Any chinese influence on them are mostly from the Kinhs in later periods. Funan are also culturally Indian, diplomatic ties with china isn't a synthesis of two cultures, it is merely political. Chinese documents on funan states that when they arrived, the funanese were already trading with indians and absorbing indian culture and influences. Search Youtube for funan and you might get an understanding.
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- See Yasothon and Thai Chinese. Lee 18:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Indianisation
I had a hard time finding this article. I looked for "Indianisation", as that's the term I'm familiar with, and found something about British attempts to reform the Indian Army in the early decades of the 20th century. "Indianised kingdom" never occured to me. And they're two different things I guess - one a thing, the other a process. Could this article usefully be er-oriented toard the processes by whuich certain SE Asian societies and polities adopted Indian culture? I think thart would be a more user-fruiendly approach, and also easier to write about. PiCo 10:10, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
- A disambiguation page is needed. As for sources, IMHO the link to George Coedès is sufficient. That being said, Charles F. Keyes, prof. of anthropology, University of Washington and director of the Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asia Studies has this to say in The golden peninsula : culture and adaptation in mainland Southeast Asia, (Honolulu: SHAPS Library of Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i Press, 1995), ISBN 0-8248-1696-x, Chap. 2 footnote 1, p. 106: The foremost authority on early Southeast Asian history, Professor George Coedès, first used the term hindouisé for those societies that borrowed elements from India. However, most authorities writing in English have preferred the term "Indianization" to avoid the misleading impression that only Hinduism was diffused from India to Southeast Asia. For a recent excellent study of "Indianization" and the characteristics of "Indianized" civilization, see Paul Wheatley, "Satyānrta in Suvarṇadvīpa: From Reciprocity to Redistribution in Ancient Southeast Asia," in Ancient Civilization and Trade, ed. by Jeremy Sabloff and C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (Albuquerque: University of New Mexicon Press, (1975), pp. 227-83. Lee 18:08, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
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