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The Mekong Exploration Commission Report 1866 1868 Pictorial Journey On The Old Mekong
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Book Synopsis The Mekong Exploration Commission Report, 1866-1868: A pictorial journey on the old Mekong : Cambodia, Laos, and Yunnan by : Francis Garnier
Download or read book The Mekong Exploration Commission Report, 1866-1868: A pictorial journey on the old Mekong : Cambodia, Laos, and Yunnan written by Francis Garnier and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866-1868) by : Francis Garnier
Download or read book The Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866-1868) written by Francis Garnier and published by . This book was released on with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Pictorial Journey on the Old Mekong by : Louis Delaporte
Download or read book A Pictorial Journey on the Old Mekong written by Louis Delaporte and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Laos by : Martin Stuart-Fox
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Laos written by Martin Stuart-Fox and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laos has the smallest population, the weakest military, and despite rapid economic growth in recent years, one of the lowest levels of per capita income in mainland Southeast Asia. Yet a glance at the map reveals its strategic location, between China and Cambodia and Thailand and Vietnam. As Laos was formerly a crossroads for trade routes, the socialist government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic seeks to transform the country into a prosperous crossroads at the heart of this rapidly developing region. Historical Dictionary of Laos, Fourth Edition provides an in-depth examination of one of the least-known countries in Southeast Asia through a detailed chronology, comprehensive introduction, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book will be an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Laos.
Book Synopsis The Mekong Exploration Commission Report, 1866-1868 by : Francis Garnier
Download or read book The Mekong Exploration Commission Report, 1866-1868 written by Francis Garnier and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Search for the Golden Moon Bear by : Sy Montgomery
Download or read book Search for the Golden Moon Bear written by Sy Montgomery and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sy Montgomery--acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig--has shared with readers her amazing encounters with intelligent octopi, great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but here her muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke another world altogether. Southeast Asia's golden moon bear, with its luminous coat, lionlike mane, and Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science--until Montgomery and her colleagues got on the trail at the dawn of the new millennium. Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery's quest--fraught with danger and mayhem--to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her littleknown subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. Search for the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into fantastic travelogue.
Book Synopsis Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words by : Justin Thomas McDaniel
Download or read book Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words written by Justin Thomas McDaniel and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Henry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, Justin McDaniel traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect a wide array of community goals and values. He depicts Buddhism as a series of overlapping processes, bringing fresh attention to the continuities of Theravada monastic communities that have endured despite regional and linguistic variations. Incorporating both primary and secondary sources from Thailand and Laos, he examines premodern inscriptional, codicological, anthropological, art historical, ecclesiastical, royal, and French colonial records. By looking at modern sermons, and even television programs and websites, he traces how pedagogical techniques found in premodern palm-leaf manuscripts are pervasive in modern education. As the first comprehensive study of monastic education in Thailand and Laos, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words will appeal to a wide audience of scholars and students interested in religious studies, anthropology, social and intellectual history, and pedagogy.
Download or read book Large Rivers written by Avijit Gupta and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management explores an important topic in geomorphology and sedimentology: the form and function of major rivers. Our knowledge of the big rivers of the world is limited. It is currently difficult to recognise large rivers of the past from relict sedimentary deposits or to structure management policies for long international rivers. This exciting book brings together a set of papers on large rivers of the world, as a unique introduction to a demanding subject. The book includes thirty chapters and is organised into three sections. The first part is on the environmental requirements for creating and maintaining a major river system. The second is a collection of case studies on 14 large rivers from different continents, covering a range of physical environments. The third section includes chapters on the measurement and management of large rivers. First book to offer in a single volume state-of-the-art knowledge on management and geomorphology of large rivers of the world A pioneering study, pushing the boundaries of our knowledge related to big rivers Includes comprehensive case studies covering the major large rivers of the world including Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, Congo, Indus, and Mekong Written by a leading team of distinguished, international contributors Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management is essential reading for postgraduate students and researchers in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, sedimentary geology, and river management. It is also of relevance to engineers and environmental consultants in the private and public sectors working on major rivers of the world.
Book Synopsis A Journey in Cambodia and Cochin-China (1864) by : Adolf Bastian
Download or read book A Journey in Cambodia and Cochin-China (1864) written by Adolf Bastian and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Heritage of Ruins by : William R. Chapman
Download or read book A Heritage of Ruins written by William R. Chapman and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient ruins of Southeast Asia have long sparked curiosity and romance in the world’s imagination. They appear in accounts of nineteenth-century French explorers, as props for Indiana Jones’ adventures, and more recently as the scene of Lady Lara Croft’s fantastical battle with the forces of evil. They have been featured in National Geographic magazine and serve as backdrops for popular television travel and reality shows. Now William Chapman’s expansive new study explores the varied roles these monumental remains have played in the histories of Southeast Asia’s modern nations. Based on more than fifteen years of travel, research, and visits to hundreds of ancient sites, A Heritage of Ruins shows the close connection between “ruins conservation” and both colonialism and nation building. It also demonstrates the profound impact of European-derived ideas of historic and aesthetic significance on ancient ruins and how these continue to color the management and presentation of sites in Southeast Asia today. Angkor, Pagan (Bagan), Borobudur, and Ayutthaya lie at the center of this cultural and architectural tour, but less visited sites, including Laos’s stunning Vat Phu, the small temple platforms of Malaysia’s Lembah Bujang Valley, the candi of the Dieng Plateau in Java, and the ruins of Mingun in Burma and Wiang Kum Kam near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, are also discussed. All share a relative isolation from modern urban centers of population, sitting in park-like settings, serving as objects of tourism and as lynchpins for local and even national economies. Chapman argues that these sites also remain important to surrounding residents, both as a means of income and as continuing sources of spiritual meaning. He examines the complexities of heritage efforts in the context of present-day expectations by focusing on the roles of both outside and indigenous experts in conservation and management and on attempts by local populations to reclaim their patrimony and play a larger role in protection and interpretation. Tracing the history of interventions aimed at halting time’s decay, Chapman provides a chronicle of conservation efforts over a century and a half, highlighting the significant part foreign expertise has played in the region and the ways that national programs have, in recent years, begun to break from earlier models. The book ends with suggestions for how Southeast Asian managers and officials might best protect their incomparable heritage of art and architecture and how this legacy might be preserved for future generations.
Book Synopsis Civility and Savagery by : Andrew Turton
Download or read book Civility and Savagery written by Andrew Turton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about social differentiation and distinction in one of the ethnically and politically most complex regions of the world, dealing with crucial issues in currently renewed debates on cultural pluralism, nationalism, irredentism and ethnic dispersal. The themes are given a regional and historical focus by treating peoples within the Tai
Book Synopsis Chinese Workers of the World by : Selda Altan
Download or read book Chinese Workers of the World written by Selda Altan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese workers helped build the modern world. They labored on New World plantations, worked in South African mines, and toiled through the construction of the Panama Canal, among many other projects. While most investigations of Chinese workers focus on migrant labor, Chinese Workers of the World explores Chinese labor under colonial regimes within China thorough examination of the Yunnan-Indochina Railway, constructed between 1898–1910. The Yunnan railway—a French investment in imperial China during the age of "railroad colonialism"—connected French-colonized Indochina to Chinese markets with a promise of cross-border trade in tin, silk, tea, and opium. However, this ambitious project resulted in fiasco. Thousands of Chinese workers died during the horrid construction process, and costs exceeded original estimates by 74%. Drawing on Chinese, French, and British archival accounts of day-to-day worker struggles and labor conflicts along the railway, Selda Altan argues that long before the Chinese Communist Party defined Chinese workers as the vanguard of a revolutionary movement in the 1920s, the modern figure of the Chinese worker was born in the crosscurrents of empire and nation in the late nineteenth century. Yunnan railway workers contested the conditions of their employment with the knowledge of a globalizing capitalist market, fundamentally reshaping Chinese ideas of free labor, national sovereignty, and regional leadership in East and Southeast Asia.
Book Synopsis Agriculture and Ethnobotany of the Mekong Basin by : Clovis Thorel
Download or read book Agriculture and Ethnobotany of the Mekong Basin written by Clovis Thorel and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annotated Bibliography on the Mekong by : Charnvit Kasetsiri
Download or read book Annotated Bibliography on the Mekong written by Charnvit Kasetsiri and published by Silkworm Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions depend on the Mekong. The river is the focus of wide-ranging debates over development strategy, governance, legal issues, and environmental management. Entries include works not only in English and European languages but also in Burmese, Japanese, Mandarin, Thai, and Vietnamese covering history, culture, natural resources, economy, social issues, politics, and security. CHARNVIT KASETSIRI is a distinguished historian, former Rector of Thammasat University, and long-standing activist on social, political, and intellectual issues. CHRIS BAKER is a writer, editor, and translator resident in Bangkok.
Book Synopsis Social Challenges for the Mekong Region by : Mingsan Khāosaʻāt
Download or read book Social Challenges for the Mekong Region written by Mingsan Khāosaʻāt and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mad about the Mekong written by John Keay and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Keay describes the world of the Mekong as it is today, rehabilitating a traumatised geography while recreating the thrilling and historic voyage of Garnier in 1866. The French expedition was intended to investigate the 'back door' into China by outflanking the British and American conduits of commerce at Hong Kong and Shanghai. The two-year expedition's failures and successes, and the tragedy and acrimony that marked it, make riveting reading.
Book Synopsis Ancient Luang Prabang by : Denise Heywood
Download or read book Ancient Luang Prabang written by Denise Heywood and published by River Books Press Dist A C. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents an illustrated guide to 33 of the most elaborately carved and exquisitely frescoed and gilded Buddhist temples around Luang Prabang.
