A History of Early South East Asia
A major study on regional and global trade historic phases, their impact on development of polities and kingdoms around 1th-16th...
A major study on regional and global trade historic phases, their impact on development of polities and kingdoms around 1th-16th...
Adventurer and gifted explorer William Dampier's view on early Southeast Asia
Far from cold scientific studies, an endearing invocation of Angkor and its ancient civilization by an Indian historian, poet and...
A technical and historical treatise on Khmer classical dance.
One of the first published travel accounts from French explorers at the end of the 19th century, with hunting anecdotes...
A European woman's view on Southeast Asia at the turn of the 20th century
A dazzling, poignant journey through Cambodia's modern history and the 'Stories in Stones' told by Angkor.
The Description of Chenla in Chinese sources (in particularly Zhou Daguan) as seen by a French Orientalist
The goddesses and women of Angkor.Scholarly, artistic and literary musings in the realm of devatas and apsaras.
A picturesque and pertinent travelogue of the 1871 mission set to rescue Cambodian princesses from Bangkok.
The power-charged erotica of Indian iconography, or how "bringing beauty nearer" inspired Indian (and Khmer) sculptors.
A thorough study of the female figures "inhabiting" Angkor Wat leads the author to novel considerations about the symbolic and...
Relations between genders are one of the areas in which a distinctive Southeast Asian pattern exists.
A lively description of mainland Southeast Asia in the 1820s.
An engrossing novel set in an Indochinese plantation in the 1910s, with an unforgettable visit to Angkor and the Bayon.
An engrossing novel set in an Indochinese plantation in the 1910s, with an unforgettable visit to Angkor and the Bayon.
"Harmony, gentleness and endearment" in Khmer statuary and sculptural art.
Aesthetical and symbolical outlook on Birds in Southeast Asian cultures.
The fascinating life of a talented photographer and a strong-willed woman spanning the whole 20th century and several continents.
A symbolist and powerful novel set in an imaginary Angkorean palace.
The first study addressing the place of women in Cambodian history, or what lays behind the Apsara Smile.
Physical beauty and the decay of the human body, a major topic in Buddhist meditation.
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The astonishingly vivid and detailed Geography of India and Indochina by French free-thinker Élisée Reclus.
A pleasant read from a typical French 'grand reporter' of the 1930s who befriended famous journalist Albert Londres.
A smart feminist in 1935 Angkor. Sensuality, hints to opium-enticed paradises, Bali women: "Asia lifted its curtain at the moonlit...
The centrality of water in Southeast Asian cosmologies.
Matrilinear and patrilinear succession lines, plus some conquerors or usurpers: the complex genealogy of pre-Angkorean and Angkorean sovereigns.
From the "Two Sacred Ladies" to the virtuous daughter of a disgraced king,, a collection of Vietnamese folktales mixing history...
The written account that decades later inspired a best-selling book and a Hollywood musical is nevertheless a valuable document for...
In this 1997 interview, King Norodom Sihanouk talks about his movies and how they expressed his "love for my Cambodia...
The first integral English translation of the Sanskrit Treatise on Hindu Dance, "Dramaturgy and Histrionics".
One of the earliest (16th April-21 June 1854) accounts of Cambodia in the English language by a traveler who had...
A particular example of Brahmanist-Muslim syncretism in modern Southeast Asia, and what it tells us about the ancient Cham civilization
First Khmer translation of George Groslier's 1913 essay: 'Cambodian Dancers, Ancient and Modern' (Danseuses cambodgiennes, anciennes et modernes).