Cambodia & SEA

The land routes linking two neighbors, foes and trade partners, and the mutual influences in Khmer and Cham cultures.

In English

A magnificent art collection, presented when 'provenance' only meant speculations about dates and styles, not how rightfully (or not) artworks were bought.

In English

Political, strategical, commercial and agricultural motives led to the successive emergence of Khmer capital cities after Angkor lost its central role.

In English

Pluridisciplinary, encyclopaedic, ambitious and often highly enjoyable synthesis and sum of Angkorean research to the date.

In English

The one and only Thai treatise on dance, a stunning collection of texts and illustrations dating back from 1790 onwards.

In Thai

Worship of Agni (God of Fire) and fire-shrines from Khorat and Buriram to Cambodia along 'the Angkor-Phimai route".

In English

From the "Two Sacred Ladies" to the virtuous daughter of a disgraced king,, a collection of Vietnamese folktales mixing history, legends and folklore.

In English

The mystery of the Plain of Jars, in modern Laos, and what it teaches us about ancient burial rites in Southeast Asia

In English

A pleasant read from a typical French 'grand reporter' of the 1930s who befriended famous journalist Albert Londres.

In French

From protohistory to traditional craftmanship, from Burma to Sulawesi, a rich collection of studies in Southeast Asia arts.

In French

The reference travelogue of Ma Huan, interperter and translator with Zheng He's flotilla: how China saw the world in the early Ming dynasty era.

In English

More about Suvarnabhumi (Sanskrit) or Suvaṇṇabhūmi (Pali), the 'Golden Land' that attracted Indian sailors to the east.

In English

A picturesque and pertinent travelogue of the 1871 mission set to rescue Cambodian princesses from Bangkok.

In English & French

A central element of Cambodian culture, traditions and art, the wooden house is a link connecting Ancient Angkor and modern Cambodia.

In English

The astonishingly vivid and detailed Geography of India and Indochina by French free-thinker Élisée Reclus.

In French

Fishing and seafaring in the history of India and her contacts with the rest of the world.

In English

A lively description of mainland Southeast Asia in the 1820s.

In English

An early account of Angkor and pre-colonial Cambodial included in this compendium on the Siamese Kingdom in the 1830s-1850s.

In French

The English, more complete version of the historic travelogue by naturalist and explorer Henri Mouhot.

In English

The Khmer cultural and artistic heritage in the Siamese sphere of influence at the turn of the 20th century.

In English