Home
The Gate by François Bizot
|
François Bizot (born February 8, 1940 in Nancy, France) was the only Westerner to survive imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge.
Bizot arrived in Cambodia in 1965 to study Buddhism practiced in the countryside. He traveled extensively around Cambodia, researching the history and customs of its dominant religion. He speaks fluent Khmer, French and English and was married to a Cambodian. When the Vietnam War spilled into Cambodia, Bizot was employed at the Angkor Conservation Office, restoring ceramics and bronzes.
In 1971, on a routine outing through the Cambodian countryside, the young French ethnologist François Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of 'American imperialism', he was chained and imprisoned.
Read more... Would you like to make the reviews on this book |
Dancing in Shadow
| |
DANCING IN
the Shadows
will be sold with a 15% discount Monday February 25, 2008 at 7 PM at Pannanastra International School
|
|
|
|
META HOUSE is organizing in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Foundation on Monday,February 25 2008 at 7 PM a panel discussion with succesfully Mr. Benny
Widyono, the author of DANCING IN SHADOWS.
The panel will take place at PSIS, Pannanastra International School, Street 370
# 18 A (near to Beoung Keng Kang market).
On this occasion, the book "DANCING IN SHADOWS" will be sold with a 15%discount.
About this book
Benny Widyono has written a lively, sometimes passionate and controversial hook from the perspective of a low Southeast Asian who was also a senior UN official through Cambodia's crucial post Cold War years. His account is rich in detail, from scenes of his own life and work in the devastated country to his insider ' s analyses of its troubled politics.
As a career UN official from Indonesia , Benny Widyono brings us the remarkable inside story of the UNTAC operations in Cambodia after the conclusion of the Paris Peace Agreements, as well as the intrigues, turmoil, and political upheavals of the first years of a reborn Cambodia . This book will be fascinating reading for anyone interested in the often-tragic history of Cambodia and the history of big-power intervention in Southeast Asia .
Berns Widyono is ideally placed to assess the turbulent events in Cambodia between the UN-sponsored Paris Peace Accords of 1992 and the return to full electoral legitimacy of Hun Sen's Cambodian People ' s Party-led government in 1998. During most of those years, as personal representative oldie UN secretary-general, Widyono was at the center of Cambodia 's Machiavellian political scene. " |
|
Monument Books and ACE will held the book launch on May 2nd 2008 at 6:15pm at the Australian Centre for Education (ACE): #46, St 214 Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
HE Ms Margaret Adamson Ambassador of Australia will joined the events and make the speech to introduced the author Dr Milton Osborne who just write the new book call Phnom Penh A Cultural and Literary History.
Dr Milton Osborne, renowned Australian academic, has been associated with Southeast Asia for more than forty years since being posted to the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh in 1959.
He is the author of nine books and many articles on Asian subjects including: Southeast Asia: An Introductory History; River Road to China: The Search for the Source of the Mekong; and The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future.
Meet the author and get your signed copy at the Australian Centre for Education (ACE) #46, St 214 Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
By David ChandlerThis essays in this book approach the Cambodian past from several angles, reflection changes in my interests and my thinking as well as developments in Cambodian historiography. I've arranged the essays into five parts. The first of these deals with Angkor and pre-colonial Cambodian cultures. It is followed by one that treats several aspects of nineteenth century Cambodia. Essays in the third part cover the colonial period (1863-1954) while those in the fourth deal with the Khmer Rouge era (1975-1979) and its aftermath. The final section contains two essays, written fifteen years apart, about what I have called the tragedy of Cambodia history.
I've introduce each part with some remark that pace the esssays in context.
In the preparing the collection I haven't adjusted my findings, secons-guessed my opinions or brought the bibliographical references up to date. I've tinkered with the style of several essays, however, and I couldn't resist adding some new information to the essay "Royally Sponsored Human Sacrifices in Nineteenth Century Cambodia." Read more...
|
|
|
By Vatthana Pholsena & Ruth Banomyong Can Laos-with its small, scattered, ethnically diverse population, enchanting but rugged landscapes, and rich natural resources-emerge from the shadow of its more powerful neighbors?
The authors investigate the country’s unwanted role as a buffer state devastatingly drawn into the Indochina wars and the Cold War, its recent accession to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and its bilateral relations with Vietnam and Thailand. The current catchcry of Mekong regional development, with Laos as a central node in ‘transport corridors’, or as a major source of hydroelectric power through large dams, is critically examined. Clearly, change is everywhere in Laos, with the opening up of its borders to its more powerful and numerous neighbors on all side. How is this affecting its people, its economy, its culture, and its prospects as a nation?
This lively and accessible book on contemporary Laos is an essential read for scholars, policymakers, NGO personnel, and anyone interested in coming to grips with the country today.
|
|
|
Mangas, le ras de marée : avec plus de 40,30 millions d'albums vendus en 2007, la BD est en bonne santé mais c'est le score des mangas qui est le plus étonnant puisqu'en quelques années seulement, ils représentent plus de 30% des ventes et font progresser le marché de la BD. Retour sur une histoire d'après guerre…
Le mot manga est un mot assez ancien, qui a longtemps désigné un certain type d'images ou d'estampes dont le sujet était considéré comme "frivole" (c'est-à-dire non historique, non légendaire, fait pour amuser), et il désigne aujourd'hui la bande dessinée japonaise, à l'exclusion de tout autre sens.
Le manga commence à apparaître avec l'après-guerre. Le Japon a perdu la guerre et a été traumatisé par le lâcher des deux bombes atomiques américaines sur Hiroshima et Nagazaki. Qui plus est, tout comme les alliés européens occupent l'Allemagne et l'Autriche, le Japon est placé sous tutelle américaine et les Japonais supportent mal la présence américaine chez eux. Ils ont perdu leur honneur et leur identité, et se trouvent noyés de produits américains chargés de culture américaine. A cette époque, la réalité est devenue trop dure, et les Japonais ne désirent qu'une chose : oublier leur condition actuelle. Dans ces conditions, il n'est pas surprenant que le manga soit devenu un phénomène dès son apparition. On ne sait pas réellement comment le manga est apparu, mais on sait à peu près quand : au début des années 50.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
By: Times Edition
Countries of the World Cambodia. This books is The Cambodia books that reviews the lifestyle. Region, society, Cambodia art, sports, education, government and the economy, market and stall in Cambodia....
From familiar neighborers to distant Parts of the globe, this engaging series offers readers a close-up look at countries around the world. Vivid color photographs enhance up-to-day information on each country's geography, history system of government, lifestyle, language, art, food, and more. An intriguing section of special features provides a window into each country's unique customs as well as its current issues Cambodia
Once the seat of the glorious Khmer Empire, Cambodia has, since the 1970s, been plagued by civil war, starvation, poverty, and genocide. Today, Cambodians are working together to rebuild their country and restore their culture. From the ancient splendor of Angkor Wat to the graceful movement of the Apsaras, from saffron-robed Buddhist monks to the magic of the achar, and from he atrocities of the Khmer Rouge to the suffering of land mind victims, this volumes traces the history of a resilient people on the road to a peaceful future.
Would like to make a comment or the reviews on this books click here
|
|
 We have the book "Building Cambodia New Khmer Architecture 1953 - 1970" This book describes how such outstanding work flourished in Southeast Asia's oldest kingdom until it was dragged into almost three decades of military dictatorship, genocide and civil war. Based on six years of research in Cambodia, France and Australia, the authors recount this extraordinary period of national development with fascinating and sometimes controversial details. They also identify dozens of architects, engineers and town planners from the fifties and sixties who left a distinctly Cambodian architectural heritage that is only now being recognized.
Now we have the other book call The Living House An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia By Roxana Waterson, This books first appeared in 1990, Its main thesis - that the kinship systems of island South-East Asia could be profitable reanalysed as house-focused systems - has been amply confirmed by dozens of excellent new ethnographic studies, particularly of previously little known areas of eastern Indonesia. Mora and more of these recent works have chosen to focus upon the house as a key institution central to an understanding of how social relations are organized. As a result we are now moving toward a new synthesis in Indonesian kinship studies. The chance to republish this book therefore comes at a opportune moment adn I hope will make the work more accessible to a wider audience than was possible formerly.
Although intended principally as a work of anthropology, the book also set out to cross disciplinary boundaries. At the original time of writing, the whole topic of indigenous vernacular architectures, and their intimate interconnections with patterns of social relations, was still a grossly neglected subject in anthropology. That is far less true today. New publications from all part of the world, by both anthropologists and architects, have provide valuable documentation and confirmed the usefulness of a closer collaboration between the disciplines, Ironically, though, while these works bear witness to the genius of indigenous builders, the survival of the architectures they record is in many case more threatened today than ever by the rapidly increasing pace of globalization and homogenizing development.
|
|
| | << Start < Prev 1 2 3 Next > End >>
| | Results 1 - 16 of 33 |
|
Who's Online
We have 1 guest and 1 member online
|
