Michael Vickery

Michael Theodore Vickery is a historian and author, who worked as an associate professor and lecturer on Southeast Asian history at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia (1989). In 2004 Vickery introduced himself as an independent scholar associated with the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. He acquired a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1977 with his dissertation: "Cambodia after Angkor: the chronicular evidence for the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries"[1]

He lived, studied, and taught at high school - and university levels in various South-East Asian countries, such as Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Malaysia from 1960 to 1967, 1970 to 1972 and 1973 to 1979 and in Australia from 1979 to 1988.[2]

Work

Vickery's research and writings have concentrated on ancient and modern history of Cambodia and Thailand[3] with publications ranging from early history to contextual studies and interpretations of recent and contemporary Cambodia - being one of only a handful scholars, who comprehensively examined regional events during the 1980s.[4]

Vickery essentially contributed to and helped to extend[5] the scholarly debate of the Pre-Angkorian kingdoms,[6] the classic age and the dark ages of Cambodia, introducing and integrating the works of the Cambodian scholars Khin Sok and Mak Phoen by utilizing their alternative view-points.[7] On the basis of volumes of previously non-deciphered epigraphic inscriptions, Vickery elaborated on the fact, that many works of earlier scholars, "...written 20 years ago may be simply refuted by the discovery or the deciphering of a [new] inscription". and further: "To study nowadays Cambodian history with [Georges] Coédès would amount to do geography with Ptolemy".[8]

1984 he published his "carefully researched"[9] book "Cambodia 1975–1982" that covers the years of the Pol Pot era and its immediate aftermath. The work has since become a standard reference text on the Khmer Rouge Canon and Cambodia's Civil War decades before and after.[10]

Although Vickery, as a member of the Bulletin Of Concerned Asian Scholars is often labelled a "Marxist" historian[11][12] by some scholars, he is considered to be and regularly cited as a "Cambodia expert"[13] and one of the "leading historians"[14] on Cambodian history.[15]

Vickery in the Bulletin Of Concerned Asian Scholars, Volume 21, 1989:

"My first contribution (1982) to BCAS [Bulletin Of Concerned Asian Scholars] was on CIA falsification of Cambodian statistics. I believe the task of BCAS should be to counter U.S. regime misinformation and mainstream self-censorship, and provide well-researched progressive information on Asia and the Pacific...[sic]"[16]

Vickery contributed a number of columns for the Phnom Penh Post from 1992 to 2007[17] during which time he engaged in political debate.[18] In 2008 it was announced, that he had been working with former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary’s defense team at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, serving as an analyst and historical expert.[19]

Publications

Dissertation

"Cambodia After Angkor, the Chronicular Evidence for the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries", Yale University, Ph.D., December 1977. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, University Microfilms.

Books

Cambodia 1975–1982, Boston, South End Press; Sydney, George Allen & Unwin, 1984; second edition, Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 1999.

Kampuchea, Politics, Economics and Society, Frances Pinter (Publishers), London, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., Boulder, 1986.

Society, Economics and Politics in Pre-Angkor Cambodia: The 7th-8th Centuries. Tokyo, The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, The Toyo Bunko, 1998.

Cambodia: A Political Survey. Phnom Penh, Funan Press, 2007

Collections

Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome in Cambodia, collected writings 1975–2010. Published on-line, 2010[20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Cambodia after Angkor: the chronicular evidence for the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, Volume 2". Google Books. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Bulletin Of Concerned Asian Scholars - Vol. 21, Nos. 2–4 April–December 1989 - Who We Are in 1989" (PDF). BCAS/Critical Asian Studies. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  3. ↑ "THE 2/K.125 FRAGMENT, A LOST CHRONICLE OF AYUTTHAYA" (PDF). Michael Vickery, The Siam Society. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Michael Vickery's Publications". Michael Vickery’s Publications. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Vickery on Coedes' history of Cambodia". JON FERNQUEST Burma - Yunnan - Bay of Bengal (c. 1350–1600). March 31, 2007. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Society, economics, and politics in pre-Angkor Cambodia - the 7th-8th centuries". Google Books. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Cambodia and Its Neighbors in the 15th Century" (PDF). Asia Research Institute - National University of Singapore. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Epigraphy in Southeast Asia: the use and misuse of inscriptions - An endless activity by Jean-Michel Filippi". The Phnom Penh Post. June 28, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Cambodia 1975–1982 by Michael Vickery". Goodreads Inc. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  10. ↑ "Bibliography". Center for Southeast Asian Studies Northern Illinois University. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Meaning of Yuon (2) I refer to Michael Vickery's letter...has typical communist overtones". The Phnom Penh Post. July 18, 2003. Retrieved June 21, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Society, Economics, and Politics in Pre-Angkor Cambodia: The 7th-8th Centuries (review) P. Bion Griffin". Project MUSE. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  13. ↑ "THE 5th THAI- MALAYSIAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES - Remembering January 7, 1979: A 33-Year Debate in Cambodian Political History" (PDF). Sok Udom DETH- Leadership Skills. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  14. ↑ "EMPTYING A CITY, KIDNAPPING A COUNTRY". The New York Times Company. August 2, 1987. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Epigraphy in Southeast Asia: the use and misuse of inscriptions - Michael Vickery, the author of the most recent and comprehensive survey about Pre Angkorian Cambodia... by Jean-Michel Filippi". The Phnom Penh Post. June 28, 2013. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Bulletin Of Concerned Asian Scholars - Vol. 21, Nos. 2–4 April–December 1989 - Who We Are in 1989" (PDF). BCAS/Critical Asian Studies. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Michael Vickery". Phnom Penh Post. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  18. ↑ "Vickery's hysterics". Phnom Penh Post. November 29, 1996. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Historian joins Ieng Sary defense team". The Phnom Penh Post. February 8, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2015.
  20. ↑ "Michael Vickery's Publications". Michael Vickery’s Publications. Retrieved June 10, 2015.

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