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Out of the Shadows of Angkor

Author : Sharon May
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082489684X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Shadows of Angkor written by Sharon May and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly 400 pages, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages is an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing. The volume emerges from the thirty-year effort of a community to gather Cambodian literary and cultural works. In doing so, they not only translated rare works into English for the first time, but also helped to rescue writing lost during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979). Readers will find the following and more: –Cambodian writing ranging over fourteen hundred years, from the seventh century to the present; –translations of classical texts;selections of modern Cambodian poetry, prose, and folk theater; –contemporary writings by Cambodian refugees and children of the diaspora living in countries from Australia to the United States, Canada, and Europe; –visual art, including oil paintings by Theanly Chov and excerpts from a graphic novel by Tian Veasna. “The work included in Out of the Shadows of Angkor is just a part of the vast, diverse repertoire of Cambodian literature created by those born in Cambodia, in the camps, and in new lands. Soth Polin once told me, ‘What we have lost is indescribable . . . what we have lost is not reconstructable. An epoch is finished. So when we have literature again, it will be a new literature.’ We hope this book brings out of the shadows some of the lost, hidden, and emerging gems of Cambodian literature—past, present, and moving into the future.” —From the overview essay by guest editor Sharon May

Dancing in Shadows

Author : Benny Widyono
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742555532
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in Shadows written by Benny Widyono and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book recounts the remarkable tale of a career UN official caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. First as a member of the UN transitional authority and then as a personal envoy to the UN secretary-general, Benny Widyono re-creates the fierce battles for power centering on King Norodom Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and Prime Minister Hun Sen. He also sets the international context, arguing that great-power geopolitics throughout the Cold War and post-Cold War eras triggered and sustained a tragedy of enormous proportions in Cambodia for decades, leading to a flawed peace process and the decline of Sihanouk as a dominant political figure. Putting a human face on international operations, this book will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in Southeast Asia, the role of international peacekeeping, and the international response to genocide.

In the Shadow of Angkor

Author : Frank Stewart
Publisher : Mānoa: A Pacific Journal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Angkor written by Frank Stewart and published by Mānoa: A Pacific Journal. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly two million people died in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979 as a result of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal regime. Cambodians who were educated, teachers, artists, and authors were among the first to be killed. One generation later, literature is re-emerging from the ashes. 22 photographs

Out of the Shadows of Angkor

Author : Sharon May
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824894545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Shadows of Angkor written by Sharon May and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly 400 pages, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages is an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing. The volume emerges from the thirty-year effort of a community to gather Cambodian literary and cultural works. In doing so, they not only translated rare works into English for the first time, but also helped to rescue writing lost during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979). Readers will find the following and more: –Cambodian writing ranging over fourteen hundred years, from the seventh century to the present; –translations of classical texts;selections of modern Cambodian poetry, prose, and folk theater; –contemporary writings by Cambodian refugees and children of the diaspora living in countries from Australia to the United States, Canada, and Europe; –visual art, including oil paintings by Theanly Chov and excerpts from a graphic novel by Tian Veasna. “The work included in Out of the Shadows of Angkor is just a part of the vast, diverse repertoire of Cambodian literature created by those born in Cambodia, in the camps, and in new lands. Soth Polin once told me, ‘What we have lost is indescribable . . . what we have lost is not reconstructable. An epoch is finished. So when we have literature again, it will be a new literature.’ We hope this book brings out of the shadows some of the lost, hidden, and emerging gems of Cambodian literature—past, present, and moving into the future.” —From the overview essay by guest editor Sharon May

Lucky Child

Author : Loung Ung
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062013513
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Child written by Loung Ung and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After enduring years of hunger, deprivation, and devastating loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, ten-year-old Loung Ung became the "lucky child," the sibling chosen to accompany her eldest brother to America while her one surviving sister and two brothers remained behind. In this poignant and elegiac memoir, Loung recalls her assimilation into an unfamiliar new culture while struggling to overcome dogged memories of violence and the deep scars of war. In alternating chapters, she gives voice to Chou, the beloved older sister whose life in war-torn Cambodia so easily could have been hers. Highlighting the harsh realities of chance and circumstance in times of war as well as in times of peace, Lucky Child is ultimately a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and to the salvaging strength of family bonds.

From the Land of Shadows

Author : Khatharya Um
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479876321
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book From the Land of Shadows written by Khatharya Um and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand finding refuge in America. From the Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Drawing on more than 250 interviews with survivors across the United States as well as in France and Cambodia, Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions, totalitarianism, transnationalism, and memory works to illuminate the pathology of power as well as the impact of auto-genocide on individual and collective healing. Exploring the interstices of home and exile, forgetting and remembering, From the Land of Shadows follows the ways in which Cambodian individuals and communities seek to rebuild connections frayed by time, distance, and politics in the face of this injurious history.

Off the Rails in Phnom Penh

Author : Amit Gilboa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Off the Rails in Phnom Penh written by Amit Gilboa and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In The Shadow Of The Banyan

Author : Vaddey Ratner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849837619
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book In The Shadow Of The Banyan written by Vaddey Ratner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday

Cambodian Dancer

Author : Daryn Reicherter
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462917690
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Cambodian Dancer written by Daryn Reicherter and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dance is a means to tell stories across cultures and in The Cambodian Dancer: Sophany's Gift of Hope, we discover how it can also be used as a way to overcome immense pain and loss. Daryn Reicherter's moving story and Christy Hale's beautiful illustrations introduce us to Sophany Bay and show us how central dance was to her life. When she was forced to leave Cambodia, dance became the means for her to heal and help others connect with the culture. This is an important book that reminds us all that no matter what happens, we need to live. We need to dance. --award-winning author, John Coy"

Hun Sen's Cambodia

Author : Sebastian Strangio
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300190727
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hun Sen's Cambodia written by Sebastian Strangio and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh, now offers an eye-opening appraisal of modern-day Cambodia in the years following its emergence from bitter conflict and bloody upheaval. In the early 1990s, Cambodia became the focus of the UN's first great post-Cold War nation-building project, with billions in international aid rolling in to support the fledgling democracy. But since the UN-supervised elections in 1993, the nation has slipped steadily backward into neo-authoritarian rule under Prime Minister Hun Sen. Behind a mirage of democracy, ordinary people have few rights and corruption infuses virtually every facet of everyday life. In this lively and compelling study, the first of its kind, Strangio explores the present state of Cambodian society under Hun Sen's leadership, painting a vivid portrait of a nation struggling to reconcile the promise of peace and democracy with a violent and tumultuous past.

The Death and Life of Dith Pran

Author : Sydney H. Schanberg
Publisher : RosettaBooks
ISBN 13 : 0795334737
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Dith Pran written by Sydney H. Schanberg and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US journalist’s account of his colleague’s struggle to survive the Cambodian genocide—the basis for the Oscar–winning film The Killing Fields. On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers seized Phnom Penh—the capital of Cambodia—and began a brutal genocide that left millions dead. Dith Pran, a Cambodian working as an assistant to American reporter Sydney H. Schanberg, was a witness to these events. While his employer managed to escape across the border, Dith Pran fled into the Cambodian countryside—and into the heart of the massacre. The basis for the acclaimed movie The Killing Fields, this is the compelling account of the days before the fall of Phnom Penh. It’s the story of one man’s struggle for survival in a country that had become a death camp for millions of its citizens—and another man’s failed efforts to keep his friend and colleague safe. Written within a year of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge, it is a work of both historical and literary significance. Sydney H. Schanberg contributed a moving new foreword to this first eBook edition.

Shadow Over Angkor

Author : Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Over Angkor written by Prince Norodom Sihanouk and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moon Angkor Wat

Author : Tom Vater
Publisher : Moon Travel
ISBN 13 : 164049250X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Moon Angkor Wat written by Tom Vater and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient temples at Angkor Wat are unlike anything else on earth. Step back in time and take the trip of a lifetime with Moon Angkor Wat. Inside you'll find: Strategic itineraries ranging from one to three days in Angkor to a week exploring the Khmer Empire, with suggestions on the most beautiful (and most secluded) temples to visit Top sights and unique experiences: Explore the sublime forested temple ruins of Angkor, remnants of the ancient Khmer Empire. Marvel at Angkor Wat, the largest religious building in the world, get up close to Angkor Thom's carved bodhisattva, and wander among nearly 100 monuments deep in the jungle at Koh Ker. Immerse yourself in bustling city of Siem Reap, drink thick sweet coffee and sample barbequed meats from street carts in Phnom Penh, and stroll the colorful markets, quiet streets, and funky art galleries of Battambang Tips for the best ways to tour the temples to get the most out of this sacred and awe-inspiring site Focused advice and historical context from documentarian and journalist Tom Vater Essential insight on trip planning, health and safety, reservations, transportation (by tuk-tuk, taxi, motorbike, or bicycle), and accommodations ranging from hotels to homestays with local families Full-color photos and detailed maps throughout In-depth coverage of Siem Reap, Angkor and all its temples, Phnom Penh, and excursions to other parts of Cambodia such as Banteay Chhmar, Sambor Prei Kuk, Preah Khan, Koh Ker, Preah Vihear, and Battambang With Moon Angkor Wat's practical tips and an insider's view on the best things to do and see, you can plan the trip of a lifetime. Exploring more of Asia? Check out Moon Vietnam or Moon Phuket & Ko Samui. Special ebook features: Easily navigate listings with quick searches, plus website links and zoom-in maps and images Personalize your guide by adding notes and bookmarks

Our World

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Our World written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our World

Author : Herbert Sherman Houston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Our World written by Herbert Sherman Houston and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Nail the Evening Hangs On

Author : Monica Sok
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322161
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book A Nail the Evening Hangs On written by Monica Sok and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime—memory that is both real and imagined—according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. A Nail the Evening Hangs On seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.

Echoes of Angkor

Author : David Lee Corley
Publisher : White Mountain Commercial LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Angkor written by David Lee Corley and published by White Mountain Commercial LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Echoes of Angkor," the gripping 22nd installment in David Lee Corley's Best Selling Airmen Series, plunges readers into the heart of Cambodia as the Khmer Rouge and their leader Pol Pot seek to brutally purify the country and its people. Retired CIA operative Rene Granier, Indigenous warrior Spitting Woman, and young Cambodian Vithu navigate a treacherous landscape, documenting atrocities while evading ruthless Khmer Rouge patrols. Meanwhile, intrepid photojournalist Karen Dickson risks everything to capture images that will shock a world that has turned a blind eye to Pol Pot’s carnage. From lush jungles to harrowing killing fields, Corley masterfully weaves a tale of courage, sacrifice, and the power of bearing witness. As our heroes race to expose the truth, they confront the human cost of ideological madness and their own moral boundaries. "Echoes of Angkor" is more than a thriller; it's a testament to the indomitable human spirit in the face of unspeakable horror. Prepare for a journey into Cambodia's darkest hour that will leave you breathless and forever changed. Continue the journey, uncover the truth, read “Echoes of Angkor”.