Henri-Antoine-Marie-Joseph-Anatole Brenier (16 Aug 1867, Shanghai, China - 18 Feb 1962, Marseille, France) was a French journalist, economist, explorer, colonial administrator, merchant and writer who authored several studies on commercial exchanges with and from French Indochina in the 1890s,… Read more

Paul Émile Marie Réveillère or Paul Branda or Paul Brandat [pen name] (27 May 1829, Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Britanny, France - 26 Jan 1908, Brest), was a French Navy officer, and a writer and journalist best known under the pen names of Paul Branda or Brandat.After studying at École navale in… Read more

Khing Hoc Dy ឃីង ហុកឌី (b. 13 June 1945, Chheu Teal Village, Kampong Chen Tbong Commune, Stong District, Kampong Thom Province) is a Cambodian professor of literature and humanities who authored several reference studies on Cambodian literature history, and a founding member of the Royal Academy of… Read more

Vong Sotheara វង់ សុធារ៉ា (b. Kompong Cham province) is Head of the Department of History and Professor of Khmer Inscriptions and Cambodia-Southeast Asian history at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Cambodia.With a post-graduate diploma in Tourism Development (RUPP, 2002), a MA in Tourism… Read more

Shao-yun Yang (b. Singapore) is an Associate Professor of East Asian history at Denison University, USA, with his research including ethnocultural identities, foreign relations, and cross-cultural interactions in medieval or "Middle Period" China (broadly defined as 200-1600 CE). With a B.A. and… Read more

Francis Patrick "Frank" McGloin (22 Feb 1846, Gort, County Galway, Ireland - 30 Aug 1921, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA) was an Irish-American jurist, editor and writer whose one and only novel, Norodom, King of Cambodia: A Romance of the East (1882) dealt with Cambodia and its history.A… Read more

Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (8 July 1811 – 5 March 1895) was an English barrister and politican, the auhor of a two-volume History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire (1879) that was lauded as "admirable" at the time for its… Read more

Stephen A. Murphy is historian of art and archaeology specializing in early Buddhism and Hinduism in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Malaysia, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at SOAS, University of London. He particularly studies the period spanning the… Read more

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford (5 March 1866, Roehamption, London – 18 Dec 1941, Roehamption) was a British colonial administrator and a writer who devoted a novel, The Downfall of the Gods, to Angkor and the ancient Khmer civilization. The son of a distinguished British Army general, he opted to join… Read more

Khun Samen [or Samén] ឃុន សាម៉េន (b. 9 Sept. 1948, Prey Veng Province) is a Cambodian Professor of Khmer Art History and Museology who was the director of Phnom Penh National Museum (now National Museum of Cambodia) from 1996 to 2007, acting as a curator of the collection before. He was succeeded… Read more

René Morizon was a French civil administrator who wrote a monography on Cambodia for the Paris 1931 Exposition Coloniale Internationale. His doctorate thesis dealt with La Province cambodgienne de Pursat [The Cambodian province of Pursat] (Université de Paris, Faculté des lettres, 1936). This work… Read more

Ulrich Theobald is a German researcher on Chinese history specializing in the economic, military, and administrative history of late imperial China, a Senior Lecturer, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany since 2016.One of his current projects investigates the impact of… Read more

Edith Mary Hinchley née Mason [also known as Ms. J.W. Hinchley] (23 Jan. 1870, Chelsea, London - 16 Oct. 1940, in The Blitz, London) was a British painter, genealogist, suffragist, and humanist who spent three years in Bangkok, 1904-1907.A noted student at the Royal College of Art, she met a male… Read more

Pierre Mathieu Théodore Guesde (9 May 1870, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean=) - 1955) was a French colonial administrator from 1896 to 1914, Resident-superieur of Indochina for a few months in 1914, and Commissioner for Indochina at the 1922 (initially scheduled for 1916) Marseille… Read more

Chan Bophal ចន្ទ បូផល is a Cambodian writer and translator, author of the first translation into Khmer of Roland Meyer's partly autobiographical novel Saramani, danseuse khmer (1919). Read more

Charles Gravelle (b. Charles Jules Paul Darnis-Gravelle, 21 Sept 1864, Courtenay, France - 26 Oct 1929, Phnom Penh) was a French lawyer, the first director of Banque de l'Indochine (Phnom Penh branch), a patron of Cambodian arts who supported George Groslier in the founding of the Albert Sarrault… Read more

Albert Tissandier (1839, Paris – 5 Sept 1906, Jurançon, France) was a French architect, aviator, illustrator, editor and archaeologist who founded with brother Gaston Tissandier (1843-1899) [1] the popular science magazine La Nature in 1873, the two being intrepid balloonists and demonstrating… Read more

William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple (b. 20 March 1965, Scotland, UK) is an acclaimed historian and art historian, a curator and broadcaster, and a co-founder and co-director of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival (Jaipur, Rajasthan, India). He lives with his wife and three children on a farm… Read more

Comte Xavier Brau de Saint-Pol Lias (4 July 1840, Seix (Ariège), France - 6 May 1914, Paris) was a French explorer, naturalist and travel writer who visited Java and Sumatra in 1876, then Tonkin, Cochinchina, Cambodia and Malaysia in 1884. He used to take photographs of the places he visited.Born… Read more

Eugène Pujarniscle ( 16 May 1881, Solliès-Toucas, France - 15 Oct. 1951, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) was a French educator and novelist who offered his own definition of "colonial literature".A secondary school teacher in France, he resolved to leave for French Indochina in 1912, where he taught… Read more