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Publisher : SHISANUBHOL BHOOMSORN
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Laos in my memory. written by and published by SHISANUBHOL BHOOMSORN. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laos in my memory. LUANG PRABANG, VIENTAINE, CHAMPASAK.
Author : Charles F. Keyes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136827250
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Cultural Crisis and Social Memory written by Charles F. Keyes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores social memory in the context of cultural crises of modernity in Thailand and Laos. It explicates the ways in which social memory constructed by the people enters modernity, and how this in turn causes fundamental ruptures with their past, as well as the various ways cultural crises are experienced in their lives. The essays in this book consider how in these crises the people constitute their cultural, social, or individual identities, particularly focusing on the theoretical issues of identifications and their relevance to distinct historical processes in Thailand and Laos. Both countries, particularly in the two decades since the 1970s, have been undergoing radical social and economic changes. Whilst Thailand has travelled down the road to industrialization, neighbouring Laos experienced a communist revolution in 1975 and only since the late 1980s has attempted to follow a reformist path to development. Increasingly influenced by globalised economic and social institutions, both countries have come to face crises that have made people insecure in the present and anxious about the future.
Author : Sina Emde
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971697017
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Interactions with a Violent Past written by Sina Emde and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second and Third Indochina Wars are the subject of important ongoing scholarship, but there has been little research on the lasting impact of wartime violence on local societies and populations, in Vietnam as well as in Laos and Cambodia. Today's Lao, Vietnamese and Cambodian landscapes bear the imprint of competing violent ideologies and their perilous material manifestations. From battlefields and massively bombed terrain to reeducation camps and resettled villages, the past lingers on in the physical environment. The nine essays in this volume discuss post-conflict landscapes as contested spaces imbued with memory-work conveying differing interpretations of the recent past, expressed through material (even, monumental) objects, ritual performances, and oral narratives (or silences). While Cambodian, Lao and Vietnamese landscapes are filled with tenacious traces of a violent past, creating an unsolicited and malevolent sense of place among their inhabitants, they can in turn be transformed by actions of resilient and resourceful local communities.
Author : Kwok Kian-Woon
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971695065
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia written by Kwok Kian-Woon and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia applies a new theoretical literature on social memory to remembered events in Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. Highlighting connections between theorizing based on European examples and unresolved memory issues in East and Southeast Asia, the authors show how comparative study of the interpenetration of politics and lived bodily experience, of communal and personal memories, and of dominant and suppressed narratives, can yield insights into the human potential to become either perpetrators, victims or bystanders. The memories found within different groups in any society are open to negotiation, suppression, contestation, or revision in the ever-evolving politics of the present. The searching and close-grained analyses of contemporary issues found in the volume vividly illustrate the essentially plural and multivocal nature of social memories, and demonstrate the intricate connection between transnational, national and sub-national politics. Readers seeking a more nuanced and complex understanding of the past and of its continued relevance to the present and future, will find here much food for thought.
Author : Mai Der Vang
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979645
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Afterland written by Mai Der Vang and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Carolyn Forché When I make the crossing, you must not be taken no matter what the current gives. When we reach the camp, there will be thousands like us. If I make it onto the plane, you must follow me to the roads and waiting pastures of America. We will not ride the water today on the shoulders of buffalo as we used to many years ago, nor will we forage for the sweetest mangoes. I am refugee. You are too. Cry, but do not weep. —from “Transmigration” Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. Mai Der Vang is telling the story of her own family, and by doing so, she also provides an essential history of the Hmong culture’s ongoing resilience in exile. Many of these poems are written in the voices of those fleeing unbearable violence after U.S. forces recruited Hmong fighters in Laos in the Secret War against communism, only to abandon them after that war went awry. That history is little known or understood, but the three hundred thousand Hmong now living in the United States are living proof of its aftermath. With poems of extraordinary force and grace, Afterland holds an original place in American poetry and lands with a sense of humanity saved, of outrage, of a deep tradition broken by war and ocean but still intact, remembered, and lived.
Author : Henry T. Trueba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000777332
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Cultural Conflict and Adaptation written by Henry T. Trueba and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children of a small group of Hmong who have settled in La Playa, California. The educational process for these children is an example of cultural conflict and adjustment patterns which may be found in many other populations in the world.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcommittee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Economy and Efficiency of U.S. Aid Programs in Laos and Cambodia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Economy and Efficiency of U.S. Aid Programs in Laos and Cambodia written by United States. Congress. House. Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Pavlick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608463237
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (632 download)
Download or read book U. S. War Crimes in Indochina written by Mark Pavlick and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the horrifying criminality of United States policy in Indochina during the Vietnam war.
Author : Nicholas Tapp
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643102585
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Impossibility of Self written by Nicholas Tapp and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work of ethnographic reflection on Hmong society, history and culture, dealing with questions of the self and the notion that a romantic self inspired the ethos of hedonism associated with the consumer economy. A Hmong identity is shown to have been historically constructed through the works of colonial missionaries, linguists, and anthropologists. Yet Hmong voices have also been powerful in this process. Based on recent fieldwork in Asia and overseas, the Hmong diaspora is examined. The modern Hmong self is presented as a prospective one, constructed in diaspora and through the use of the internet and other modes of modern communication in a movement towards a virtual future which, despite the dissonance of voices appealing to an ideal unity, is one still rich with potentiality.
Author : Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317684044
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Laos written by Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the case study of Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia that has seen some of the world’s most brutal forms of poverty and violence, this book examines the power of traditional and indigenous conflict resolution systems as a tool for social justice. It explores how the conflict resolution mechanisms build infrastructures that support social harmony, and address larger scale conflicts within communities, nations and international arenas. The book discusses how over centuries, foreign powers have polarised and used the ethnic groups of Laos to support their own agendas, and how in spite of this, the Lao people have consistently managed to recreate the peace and harmony that support their social relationships, whether that is within groups or between many distinct groups. Through the development and use of appropriate grassroots conflict resolution structures that do not require a formal court system and exists outside the political arena, they have been successful in resolving conflicts within and across cultural groups. The book shows that the conflict resolution systems of Laos are embedded in the fabric of ordinary, everyday life, and operate independently of the hierarchical structures that dominate governing institutions. Highlighting how peace continues to work its way into existence, through elaborate mediation systems and rituals that bring people together, this book will be of use to students and scholars of Southeast Asian Politics, Peace Studies and War and Conflict Studies.
Author : Judy Rantala
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
ISBN 13 : 1622878035
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Laos, Caught In The Web written by Judy Rantala and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2014-12-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small nation of Laos, wedged between Thailand and Vietnam, is little known to most Westerners. When the author and her husband, a USAID worker, moved to Laos in 1971, it was a quiet country falling increasingly under the effects of a heavy but unacknowledged U.S. military presence as part of a failing effort in Vietnam. Befriended by two young Laotians, the author became a part of village life, joining holiday celebrations, weddings, funerals and feasts. Over a four year period, she developed a deep admiration and affection for the Lao people. The humor and pathos of these chaotic years before the Communist take-over of the government in 1975 are chronicled by following one Lao family from Communist controlled re-education camps to their eventual resettlement in the United States. “Being born in Laos but raised in America from the tender age of 4, I have not had an opportunity to truly appreciate my own country. Judy’s book opened my eyes, heart and mind to the beautiful people and culture of that life and world. Thanks Judy.” Lala Rivera, former refugee “Fascinating for its portrayal of an unfamiliar, increasingly dangerous world (Laos, 1971-75), this memoir floods readers with admiration and sympathy for Lao culture.” Suzanne Kosanke, University of Hawaii at Manoa “As interest revives in the era of what Americans call the Vietnam War, there is still little accessible information about that part of the world, including Vietnam’s neighboring country, Laos. This book is a warm, human account of one person’s experiences in Laos.” Mary Ann Mattoon, PhD. Minneapolis.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book United States Aid Operations in Laos written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive study of the U.S. aid program for the southeast Asian Kingdom of Laos and the start of the hearing to discuss it further.
Author : E Liu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231072557
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (725 download)
Download or read book The Travels of Lao Ts?an written by E Liu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deft translation of a classic Chinese novel tells the story of a man, now an itinerant healer, who wanders through the towns and countryside of North China in the last years of the Manchu dynasty.
Author : Paul Yoon
Publisher : S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
ISBN 13 : 1501154044
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Run Me to Earth written by Paul Yoon and published by S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.” Alisak, Prany, and Noi—three orphans united by devastating loss—must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky. In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It’s a move with irrevocable consequences—and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world. Spanning decades and magically weaving together storylines laced with beauty and cruelty, Paul Yoon crafts a gorgeous story that is a breathtaking historical feat and a fierce study of the powers of hope, perseverance, and grace.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1350 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author : Ta NaTaSi
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 164677650X
Total Pages : 937 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Lao Mountain Taoist written by Ta NaTaSi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago, my grandfather passed away due to an accident. In the process of cleaning up my grandfather's things, I found a few fragments of the 'Gui Mansion's Primordial Turtle'. However, I was still unable to decipher the words written on them ...Twenty-five years later, in the process of defeating a demon, he saved a university student who specialized in ancient language and solved the mystery.They would begin a journey filled with all sorts of dangers around these few fragments of The Book of Primordial Tortoise .What kind of secret was hidden within this "The Book of Primordial Tortoise"? Could they unravel the mystery behind this? Please look forward to the perilous journey.
