Books Books Four Faces of Siva - The Detective Story of a Vanished Race
Not a novel nor a purely journalistic work: the engaging take on Angkor and modern Cambodia around 1930 by a Chicago-based reporter and popular writer.Books Cambodian Quest
The novel opens with a tracking shot on Nance Abbott (or Anne C. Abbott), a young, All-American young woman "dealing with the drudgery of news illustration and advertisement copy", glancing over the…Photos Visions of Asia by...Léa Lafugie
The world of Asia reflected in 102 watercolor, pastels, charcoal or pencil drawings by a prolific female artist and undefatigable traveler in the 1920s-1940s.Publications Rêveries sur les danseuses cambodgiennes [Musings on the Cambodian Dancers]
The perception of the Cambodian dancers in 1920s and 1930s Paris, by a famed art critic and his detractors.Books Colonial Law Making: Cambodia under the French
Or how to make the unlawful into laws: the legal pretences of French Protectorat over Cambodia.Books La province cambodgienne de Pursat [Pursat Province, Cambodia]
A rare field research touching geology, ethnography, geography, history and economics in the Pursat area, in 1925-1933.Books Wondrous Angkor
A quite insightful guidebook of Angkor temples aimed at affluent English-speaking tourists in the 1930s.Books Poison Arrows: Strange Journey with an Opium Dreamer, Annam, Cambodia, Siam and The Lotos Isle of Bali
A smart feminist in 1935 Angkor. Sensuality, hints to opium-enticed paradises, Bali women: "Asia lifted its curtain at the moonlit ruins of Angkor."Books Danse
Beautifully illustrated essay on the history of dance by a French art critic famous in the 1920s and 1930s.Films Jungle Bound: Angkor, Cambodia
A smart compilation of Angkor daily life and artistic activities in the late 1930s.Books Bali and Angkor: A 1930s Pleasure Trip Looking at Life and Death
Out-of-the-box considerations on Khmer Art and the fall of Angkor.