Beautifully illustrated essay on the history of dance by a French art critic famous in the 1920s and 1930s.

In French

The first ever English translation of Zhou Daguan's celebrated account of Angkor in 1296-7, from Paul Pelliot's 1902 French translation.

Another translation of the most ancient account of the life in Angkor by the Chinese merchant and traveler Zhou Daguan

In English

The first Khmer translation of Zhou Daguan's 'Customs of Chenla', now fully available online.

In Khmer & Chinese

A major essay on Southeast Asian trade roads and the growing involvement of agrarian States in worlwide commerce, 7th-14th centuries.

In English

A laudatory, one-sided, study on the less than two years André Malraux spent in then Indochina, from December 1923 to December 1925.

In English

With rumors of Indochina war as a backdrop, a highly personal and highly enjoyable travelogue through Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia in 1950-1.

In English

A crosscultural, multidisciplinary, study on water, its economic and social impact, and its symbolism.

In English

The magnus opus of philologist and Old Khmer specialist Philip Jenner. Available here are the dictionaries of Angkorian Khmer (2) and Middle Khmer (3).

In English & Old Khmer

The Khmer translation and edition of Mak Phoeun's major study on 17th century Cambodia, initially published in French.

In Khmer

A compilation of references to Cambodia (or Zhenla, Funan, etc) in Chinese ancient chronicles

In Chinese

Cambodia as the ultimate land of the Creation, where all living beings converge to the revelation of the Supreme Being.

In French

A symbolist and powerful novel set in an imaginary Angkorean palace.

In French

Ascetes, sacred dancers and kings in a fantasy Khmer kingdom evoked by an archetypal symbolist novel.

In French

From Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Madurai (South India) and Canton (Guanghzou), an inspiring travelogue towards Angkor, with a magnificient description, and Oceania.

In French

Or Ten Years' Travels, Adventures and Residence Abroad

In English

A 1879 French "adaptation" of photographer and geographer John Thomson's "The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China" (1875).

In French

Picturesque account of the Aymonier-Delaporte mission to Angkor in the 1870s

In French

How the history of Cambodia was taught in Indochina Catholic schools at the start of the 20th century

In French

The earliest attempt to a summary of the major religious and cultural celebrations in Modern Cambodia after Adhémard Leclere's notations.

In French