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David P. Chandler

Portrait of David P.  Chandler

David Porter Chandler (b. 1933) is an American historian and academic regarded as one of the foremost western scholars of Cambodia’s modern history. He has been residing for many years in Australia, where he is an emeritus professor at Monash University as well as an adjunct professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University. 

His bibliography includes A History of Cambodia (1983 and multiple reprints) [Khmer translation: ប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្តខ្មែរ​, Siem Reap, CKS, 2005], The Tragedy of Cambodian History (1991), Brother Number One (1992), Facing the Cambodian Past (1996), Voices from S‑21: Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison (1999).

Publications

  1. “Changing Cambodia,” Current History 59 – 352, Dec. 1970: 333 – 338, 364.
  2. “An Eighteenth Century Inscription from Angkor Wat”, Journal of Siam Society (JSS) 59 – 2, July 1971: 151 – 9.
  3. The Land and People of Cambodia, New-York, Harper Collins, 1972; repr. 1991, 210 p. ISBN: 9780060211 295.
  4. Cambodia before the French : Politics in a Tributary Kingdom, 1794 – 1848, Ann Arbor, Michigan University, 1974, 212 p.
  5. “Royally Sponsored Human Sacrifices in Nineteenth Century Cambodia : the cult of Nak Ta Me Sa (Mahisasuramardini) at Ba Phnom”, JSS 62 – 2, July 1974 : 207 – 221.
  6. “An Anti-Vietnamese Rebellion in Early Nineteenth Century Cambodia: Pre-Colonial Imperialism and a Pre-Nationalist Response”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JSEAS) VI‑1, March 1975 : 16 – 24.
  7. “The duties of the corps of royal scribes : an undated Khmer manuscript from the colonial era”, JSS 63 – 2, July 1975: 343 – 8.
  8. “Maps for the Ancestors : Sacralized topography and echoes of Angkor in two Cambodian texts”, JSS 64 – 2, July 1976: 170 – 187.
  9. “Folk Memories of the Decline of Angkor in Nineteenth Century Cambodia: The Legend of the Leper King, “, JSS 67 – 1, 1979: 54 – 62.
  10. “The Tragedy of Cambodian History”, Pacific Affairs (PA) 52 – 3, 1979: 410 – 419.
  11. “Cambodian Royal Chronicles (Rajabangsavatar), 1927 – 1949 : Kingship and Historiography at the end of the colonial era”, in Anthony Reid & David Marr, Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia, Singapour-Hong Kong- Kuala Lumpur, Asian Studies Association of Australia, Southeast Asia Publications Series n°4, 1979.
  12. “Songs at the Edge of the Forest : Perceptions of Order in Three Cambodian texts,” in David K. Wyatt & Alexander Woodside (eds) : Moral Order and the Question of Change: Essays on Southeast Asian Thought, New Haven, Yale University, Southeast Asia Monographs 24, 1982: 53 – 77.
  13. “The Assassination of Resident Bardez (1925) : Premonition of Revolt in Colonial Cambodia?”, JSS 70, 1982 : 35 – 49.
  14. Favourite Stories from Cambodia, Singapore, Heinemann, 1983. ISBN13‏:‎ 978 – 9622251601.
  15. [with Ben Kiernan] Revolution and its Aftermath in Kampuchea : Eight Essays, New Haven, Yale University, Southeast Asia Monograph Series, 1983.
  16. “Seeing Red : Perceptions of Cambodian history in Democratic Kampuchea”, in Revolution and its Aftermath...op.cit., 1983 : 34 – 56.
  17. “Revising the past in Democratic Kampuchea : When was the Birthday of the Party?”, Pacific Affairs (PA) [Vancouver], 56 – 2, Summer 1983: 288 – 300.
  18. Going through the motions : ritual aspects of the reign of King Duang of Cambodia (1848−1860), Yale University, Southeast Asia Monographs 26, 1983; repr. in Facing the Cambodian Past…,1996.
  19. “The Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia): The Semantics of Revolutionary Change,” PA 49 – 3, Fall 1976: 506 – 15. 
  20. A History of Cambodia. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983 [multiple repr.; KH tr.: ប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្តខ្មែរ​, Siem Reap, CKS, 2005.
  21. “A Revolution in Full Spate: Communist Party Policy in Democratic Kampuchea, December 1976,” International Journal of Politics 16 – 3, Fall 1986: 131 – 49.
  22. “Normative Poems (Chbap) and Pre-Colonial Cambodian Society,” JSEAS XV‑2, September 1984 : 271 – 279.
  23. “Kampuchea: End Game or Stalemate?”, Current History 83 – 497, Dec. 1984: 413 – 417, 433 – 434.
  24. “Cambodia in 1984 : Historical Patterns Re-asserted?,” Southeast Asian Affairs, 1985: 177 – 186.
  25. “The Kingdom of Kampuchea, March-October 1945: Japanese-Sponsored Independence in Cambodia in World War II,” JSEAS XVII‑1, March 1986 : 80 – 93.
  26. [co-ed. with David Joel Steinberg, et al.] In search of Southeast Asia : A modern History, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1987 (2nd ed.).
  27. “A Revolution in Full Spate : Communist Party Policy in Democratic Kampuchea, December 1976 “, International Journal of Politics (IJP)16 – 3, Cambodia: Politics and International Relations, 1986: 131 – 149. 
  28. [annotated translation with Ben Kiernan & Chanthou Boua] Pol Pot Plans the Future : Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea 1976 – 1977, New Haven, Yale University, Southeast Asia Monograph Series 33, 1988.
  29. The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution since 1945, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1991, 408 p. 
  30. Brother Number One : a Political Biography of Pol Pot, Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1992; 2nd revised ed: 1999; FR tr.:1993, TH: 1994, JP: 1994, KH: 1998, RU: 2005, VN: 2006.
  31. Cambodia, vol. 2, issue 5, Asia-Australia Briefing Papers, Asia-Australia Institute, University of New South Wales, 1993, 41 p.
  32. “Epitaph for the Khmer Rouge?,” New Left Review I/205, May/​June 1994.
  33. [with Ian Mabbett] The Khmers, Oxford, Blackwells, 1995.
  34. Facing the Cambodian Past : Selected Essays 1971 – 1994, Chiangmai, Silkworm Books/​Sydney, Allen & Unwin/​Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1996.
  35. Voices from S‑21 : Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2000; FR tr.: 2002, KH: 2003.
  36. [with Norman G.Owen et al.) The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: a New History, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2005.
  37. [co-ed. with Christopher Goscha et al.], L’espace d’un regard: L’Asie de Paul Mus (1902−1969), Paris, les Indes Savantes, 2006, 335 p.
  38. “Coming to Cambodia”, in Ann Hansen and Judy Ledgerwood (eds), At the Edge of the Forest: Essays in Honor of David Chandler, Ithaca, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 2008.
  39. [co-ed. with Alexandra Kent), People of Virtue Reconfiguring Religion, Power and Morality in Cambodia Today, Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2008.
  40. “Quelques souvenirs de Jacques Népote,“Péninsule 56, 2008 : 7 – 10.
  41. “Cambodia Deals with its Past: Collective Memory, Demonisation and Induced Amnesia”, in Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions, Sep. 2008, Vol. 9 Issue 2⁄3 : 355 – 369.

David Chandler Cambodia Collection at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.