និរាសនគរវត្ត A Journey to Angkor - English Translation [Excerpts]
by Suttantaprija Ind & Trent Walker
An attempt in translating into English one of the poems that marked the birth of Cambodian modern literature.
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និរាសនគរវត្ត Niras Nokor Wat-1969 Edition
by Suttantaprija Ind & Team Teng LyThe 1969 version of Oknha Suttantaprija Ind's famed poem, Niras Nokor Wat [Journey to Nokor Wat], edited by Cambodian writer Ly Team Theng.In Khmer
Le sculpteur Rodin et les danseuses cambodgiennes [Artist Rodin and the Cambodian Dancers]
The first journalistic account of the famous encounter between French sculptor Auguste Rodin and the Cambodian royal dancers.In French
Avec les danseuses royales du Cambodge [With the Royal Dancers of Cambodia]
by George GroslierA rare insight in the life and art of the Cambodian Royal Ballet dancers at the end of the 1920s, a critical period for the court dance form in the Kingdom.In French
From Colonial Maps to Visitor's Parcours
by Michael S. FalserA critical interpretation of earlier travel guidebooks and mapping operations as colonial appropriation of the Angkorean space.In English
António da Madalena, "First European in Angkor"
by CollectiveA biographical notice of the Portuguese friar who went to Angkor in the 16th century.In English & Portuguese
"Of The Great and Marvellous City Discovered in the Forests of Camboja..." Diogo Do Couto [ADB Reference Document]
by Diogo Do Couto & Bernard Philippe Groslier & Charles Ralph Boxer & Angkor DatabaseTrilingual and complete version of Antonio da Madalena's relation of his visit to Angkor in 1551.In English, French & Portuguese
Nouvelles études sur l'ouvrage de Zhou Daguan [New Research on Zhou Daguan's account of Angkor]
by Baoyun YangA short study of Xian Nai's apportation to a better understanding of Zhou Daguan's essential account on Angkor.In French
The Queen Mother Library
by The Queen Mother LibraryA valuable resource for Cambodian history researchers and the general public. https://www.library.dccam.org/In English & Khmer
De Phnom Penh a Pursat [From Phnom Penh to Pursat]
by Jean MouraAn important account on Cambodia in the early years of the French Protectorate.In French
Conceptions of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia
by Robert Heine-GeldernThis revised version of an article published in The Far Eastern Quarterly (Vol. 2, November 1942: 15-30) develops a dynamic approach to the much debated…In English
法国在柬埔寨的殖民统治及其崩溃 French Colonial Rule in Cambodia and Its Collapse
by Zhaolin XuA marxist analysis of French colonialism in Cambodia by a Chinese historian of Cambodian origin.In Chinese
The (Murky) Origin of the Tokyo National Museum Collection of Khmer Art
by Sadao FujiharaAncient Khmer sculptures as "political gifting": the controversial case of cultural exchanges between Colonial France and Imperial Japan during World War II.In French & Japanese
The World's Oldest Plan of Angkor: The Japanese so-called Jetavana, an Illustrated Plan of the Seventheeth Century
by Yoshiaki IshizawaWho drew the very first known plan of Angkor Wat, the "Jetavana"?In English & Japanese
សិក្សាចក្រ Siksācakr - Journal of Cambodia Research - Revue de recherche sur le Cambodge
Table of contents of Siksacakr issues available at Angkor Database LibraryIn English, French & Khmer
Au Tonkin, en Cochinchine et au Cambodge
by Xavier Brau de Saint-Pol LiasA staunch proponent of French colonialist expansion taking in the state of affairs in Indochina during the troubled mid-1880s.In French
Some Chinese Loanwords in Khmer
by Saveros Pou & Philip N. Jenner300 words derived from Chinese into Khmer, directly or through other Southeast Asian languages. A 1973 reference publication in Khmer linguistic studies.
Rêveries sur les danseuses cambodgiennes [Musings on the Cambodian Dancers]
by Francis Miomandre (de)The perception of the Cambodian dancers in 1920s and 1930s Paris, by a famed art critic and his detractors.In French
Les monuments religieux de la province de Bati [Religious Monuments of Bati Province]
by Andrew SpoonerAn exploratory description of ancient Khmer temples in the historic Khet Bati (Bati Province), visited in 1877 by an amateur archaeologist.In French
La fête du retrait des eaux a Phnom Penh (1968) [Festival of the Flood Waters Receding, 1968]
The origin and meaning of Khmer Water Festival, Bon Om Tuk, in a description of the 1968 celebrations by a journalist then King Sihanouk's press attache.In French