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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Всеобщая история</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8127</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-833X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">33155</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8127-2022-14-4-461-484</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Oriental Studies</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Из истории Востока</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Cambodia’s Decline and the Fall of Angkor as Pictured in the Chinese Sources during the Yuan and Early-Middle Ming dynasties (Late XIII - Early XV cc.)</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Упадок Камбоджи и падение Ангкора в китайских источниках эпохи Юань и ранней Мин (поздний XIII - ранний XV вв.)</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-0272</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kolnin</surname><given-names>Ilia S.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Колнин</surname><given-names>Илья Сергеевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>junior researcher of the Chinese department of IOS RAS, postgraduate student of National Research University “Higher School of Economics”</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>младший научный сотрудник Отдела Китая ИВ РАН; аспирант Национального исследовательского университета «Высшая Школа Экономики»</p></bio><email>minmi98@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">The Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOS RAS)</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт востоковедения РАН (ИВ РАН)</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-12-31" publication-format="electronic"><day>31</day><month>12</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>14</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Political History, Culture and Religion of Asia</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Политическая история,  культура и религия стран Азии</issue-title><fpage>461</fpage><lpage>484</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-12-31"><day>31</day><month>12</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Kolnin I.S.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Колнин И.С.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kolnin I.S.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Колнин И.С.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/33155">https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/33155</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The fall of Angkor in the 15th century marked a turning point in the Cambodian history leading to the downfall of the Khmer civilization and the start of the so-called “post-Angkor period” which is also often referred to as the “Dark Age of Cambodia”. Local epigraphical sources almost completely disappear from the 13th up to the 16th centuries while the Royal Chronicles dealing with this timeframe were compiled much later, mostly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Therefore, primary sources of this era are very scarce. While it is commonly accepted among the modern researchers that the fall of Angkor was a continuous process and was not a result of a single Siamese attack or a natural calamity (moreover, various reasons for this gradual downfall have been outlined), the perception of this process by other political powers in the region, especially China, has been significantly understudied. In this work the author made an attempt to trace the transformation of depiction of Cambodia in the Chinese sources of the Yuan and early Ming dynasties (both official and private).</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Падение Ангкора в XV в. обозначило поворотную точку в истории Камбоджи и привело к упадку кхмерской цивилизации и началу так называемого «пост-Ангкорского периода», который также зачастую именуют как «Темные века Камбоджи». Местные эпиграфические источники почти полностью исчезают в промежуток с XIII по XVI вв., в то же время Королевские хроники, в которых описывается этот временной период, были созданы значительно позднее, в большинстве своем в XVIII и XIX вв. Таким образом, первоисточники этой эпохи крайне малочисленны. В то время как среди современных исследователей общепринято, что упадок Ангкора был продолжительным процессом и не был результатом одного набега со стороны Сиама или же природной катастрофы (более того, было обозначено много причин этого постепенного упадка), восприятие этого процесса другими политическими силами в регионе, в особенности Китаем, не было достаточно изучено. В данной работе автор прослеживает трансформацию описания Камбоджи в китайских источниках эпохи Юань и ранней Мин, как в официальных, так и частных.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Cambodia</kwd><kwd>Angkor</kwd><kwd>Zhenla</kwd><kwd>Chenla</kwd><kwd>China</kwd><kwd>Yuan dynasty</kwd><kwd>Ming dynasty</kwd><kwd>Zhou Daguan</kwd><kwd>Zheng He</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Камбоджа</kwd><kwd>Ангкор</kwd><kwd>Чжэньла</kwd><kwd>Чэнла</kwd><kwd>Ченла</kwd><kwd>Китай</kwd><kwd>империя Юань</kwd><kwd>империя Мин</kwd><kwd>Чжоу Дагуань</kwd><kwd>Чжэн Хэ</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Vickery M. Funan Reviewed: Deconstructing the Ancients. Bulletin de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient. 2003;(90-91):101-143.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Manguin P.-Y. 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