Jim Laurie is a former war TV correspondent who covered the fall of the US Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam, on April 30, 1975, and covered Cambodia during and after the civil war, an experience at the core of his 2020 memoir, The Last Helicopter: Two Lives in Indochina. From 1972 to 2000, Laurie… Read more

Solange Brand (18 March 1946, Paris, France) is an independent photographer who captured the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution on rare color photographs which found a renewed audience in China and abroad from 2002, when a slideshow of her work was exhibitied at Pingyao Festival. In December… Read more

Claudius Madrolle (22 July 1870, Dieppe, France – 16 June 1949, ?) was a French explorer in Africa and Asia, a cartographer and an editor of travel guides specializing in East Asia, who has been labeled as "a pioneer in colonial tourism." With the aim of emulating English-speaking guidebooks such… Read more

Léonard Eugène Aurousseau (12 Jul. 1888, Cannes, France - 24 Jan. 1929, Yerres, France) was a French sinologist, historian and archaeologist who was the Director of École française d'extrême-orient (EFEO) from 1926 to 1929. After studying Chinese language in Paris, he served in Indochina as soldier… Read more

T. A. Gopinatha Rao கோபிநாத ராவ் (1872-1919) was an Indian archaeologist and (Tamil and Sanskrit) epigraphist who was appointed the first Superintendent of the Travancore Archaeology Department in 1908, and authored the monumental Elements of Hindu Iconography (Law Printing House, Madras, 4 vols,… Read more

Isabella Stewart Gardner (14 April 1840, New York City, USA – 17 July 1924, Boston, USA) was a leading American art collector, philanthropist, and an eclectic patron of the arts who founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA, in 1903, and visited China, Southeast Asia and Cambodia… Read more

Dr. Nancy Dowling is a Southeast Asia Art consultant and a retired professor of South and Southeast Asian Art at the University of Hawaii in Manoa. In 1995 she became a member of a multi-disciplinary team of University of Hawaii and East-West Center scholars, who conducted archaeological fieldwork… Read more

Peter Harris is a New-Zealand independent researcher and philanthropist who has been visiting and researching Angkor since the 1960s, and has published his own translation of Zhou Daguan's travelogue to Zhenla (Chenla).With a PhD in Asian history from Monash University, an M Phil in international… Read more

Anthony P. Grant (b. 1962, USA) is a linguist whose research has been focusing on language contact, language interweaving, loan-words, 'creolization', across the world and particularly in Southeast Asia. Professor of linguistics at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, GB, he gained a PhD (on… Read more

Paul Sidwell is an Australian researcher and consultant in linguistics, specializing in Southeast Asian language history, forensic linguistics, and applied research for security and law-enforcement. Until 2016 he was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian National University… Read more

Harry Leonard Shorto (19 Sep 1919 – 30 July 1995) was a British philologist and linguist who specialized on the Mon language and Mon-Khmer studies, teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, GB, until he retired in 1984. While he was attending Cambridge… Read more

Prabodh Chandra (P.C.) Bagchi প্রবোধচন্দ্র-বাগচী (Bengali) (18 Nov 1898, Jessore, Bengal, British India (now Magura, Bangladesh) – 19 Jan 1956, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India) was a notable Sino-Indologist of the 20th century, and the third Upacharya (Vice-Chancellor) of Visva-Bharati University,… Read more

Lin Li-kouang 林藜光 (1902, Xiamen (Amoy), Fujian Province, China – 29 Apr 1945, St Hilaire du Touvet, Isere, France) was a Buddhologist researcher who worked in France with the most distinguished Sanskritists, Sinologists and Indologists, including Paul Demiéville (1894-1979) when he was based in… Read more

Sam Chan Moly (28 Oct 1953, Phnom Penh, Cambodia-) is a Cambodian researcher, teacher, and performance artist based in the USA. After studying at the Royal University of Fine Arts under dance master Chheng Phon and ballet mistress Chea Samy, Chan Moly and husband Sam Sam-Ang fled the Khmer Rouge… Read more

Jean Filliozat (4 Nov 1906, Paris, France – 27 Oct 1982, Paris) was a French linguist specialized in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Tamil, who, as an ophtalmologist initially, studied the history and philosophy of Indian medecine with an emphasis on Ayurveda.According to Arion Rosu's biographical note… Read more

Prof. Kalyan Kumar Sarkar (1 Feb 1932, Krishnagar, West Bengal, India - 15 March 2014, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) was a historian of Ancient India and Professor Emeritus, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Born and educated in India, Dr. Sarkar went to Paris in 1958 to complete his Ph.D. at… Read more

Sanjeev Sanyal (27 Aug 1970, Kolkata, West Bengal, India) is an Indian economist and popular historian, author of several books on the history of India and Asia which have received laudative and dismissive reviews. A member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India since… Read more

T. A. Gopinatha Rao து. அ. கோபிநாத ராவ் [Tamil] (1872-1919) was an Indian archaeologist and epigraphist with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) who contributed regularly to the journal Epigraphia Indica. He was appointed first Superintendent of the Travancore Archaeology Department in 1908.… Read more

Deane H. Dickason (23 June 1898, Granada, Colorado, USA - 12 Nov 1953, Hong Kong, China) was a movie producer, director and actor, known for Castilian Memories: Manila (1934), the hugely controversial Virgins of Bali (1932), In Maori Land (1936) and Down Singapore Way (1946).Starring Balinese… Read more

Ian Masters is an award-winning screenwriter who has worked across Africa and Asia for over twenty years. As a freelance scriptwriter and creative consultant for BBC Media Action he has developed and written TV and radio dramas from Bangladesh to Indonesia, Cambodia to South Sudan. His first… Read more