Bangkok. White Lotus. 2008. Maps, colour photographic plates, xxvi + 435pp, notes, bibliography, index. People, Livelihoods and Development in the Xekong River Basin of Laos is a wide-ranging study that provides an overview of the area's history and geography as well as the cultures and local livelihood systems of the..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2012. 244pp, bibliography, index, paperback. On the eve of the war against the South Vietnamese regime in 1964, the communist party strove to carve out a new productivist and political elite from the towns and villages of the country. According to a categorization of patriotic exemplarity devised..... More
Australia. Allen & Unwin. 2010. Colour and black and white photographic illustrationsvii + 232 pages, paperback. Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not..... More
Bangkok. White Lotus. 2003. [Reprint]. Maps, contents, tables and maps, glossary of foreign words, preface, introduction, bibliography, index, xvi + 306pp, a very good paperback copy. This book is a study in historical anthroplogy. It focuses on the incorporation of French Laos into the colonial capitalist orbit.This is achieved through..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. Maps, plans, black and white photographic illustrations, xvi + 333pp, glossary, bibliography, index. Paperback. New. "As Vietnam entered the 21st century it began to prepare for the 1000th anniversary of the founding of its capital Thăng Long, now Hanoi. In the heart of the city, a rescue..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2012. Reprint. Maps, colour and black and white photographic illustrations, graphs, charts, xxvi + 440 pages, index, bibliography, paperback. "An Italian team has worked at the ancient Champa site for the last ten years, doing archaeological research and restoration work in cooperation with Vietnamese specialists. This book..... More
Singapore. ISEAS. 2012. xxi + 416 pages, index, paperback. International labour migration can be characterized in three ways - as human aspiration, tradition, and necessity. For some people, working overseas is a dream. For others, international labour mobility is a tradition. For a great number of people however, international labour..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2009. Colour and black and white illustrations, 219pp, appendices, bibliography, index, paperback. For a decade, the author followed Cambodian men and women to former wedding and birth sites from the Khmer Rouge period (1975-1979), filming their return to these locations. In the process, she uncovered evidence of..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2023. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xxvi + 248pp, bibliography, index. Paperback. New. "An important case study in the history of law under colonialism, Colonial Law Making explores the structural forces and contingent exchanges that shaped colonial law in Cambodia, draws comparisons across the region and..... More
Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press. 2010. Maps, xiii + 333 pages, index, references, notes, appendices, paperback. Tradition, Revolution, and Market Economy in a North Vietnamese Village examines both continuity and change over eight decades in a small rural village deep in the North Vietnamese countryside. Son-Duong, a community near the..... More
Thailand. White Lotus. 2011. Map, colour photographic illustrations, 298 pages, bibliography, paperback. Ethnic Groups of Cambodia-Profile of Austro-Thai and Sinitic-Speaking Peoples, is the final volume of a compreehensive three-volume work that provides a detailed account of the ethnic groups of Cambodia. All three volumes are lavishly illustrated in colour and..... More
No place of publication. 315Kio Publishing. 2022. 530pp, appendices, endnotes, bibliography. New book in paperback. When referring to this item please quote stockid 180655. More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2011. 516pp, notes, index, paperback. Focusing on the Geneva conference on Laos of 1961-2, which Britain played an important part in, this book illuminates British policy in Southeast Asia at the time. Making use of the British archives on the conference it also is of interest to..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2014. Map, xi + 375pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. Diplomatic relations between Cambodia and Britain at the height of the Cold War provide unique insights into the overall foreign policies of both nations. King Norodom Sihanouk's strategy of preserving the independence and integrity of Cambodia through a...... More
United Kingdom. Granta. 2013. 253pp. Paperback. "One starless night Janie's childhood was swept away by the terrors of the Khmer Rouge. Exiled from Phnom Penh, Janie and her family were forced to live out in the open: cold, hungry and under constant surveillance. Caught up in a political storm which..... More
Singapore. NUS Press. 2015. Maps, one black and white photographic illustration, xix + 179pp, appendix, bibliography, index, paperback. While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese..... More
Paris. Les Indes Savantes. 2001. Vol 15, 2001. 168pp, paperback. Articles in French and Vietnamese of Vietnamese interest, including "Regard comparatif sur les deux ecritures vietnamiennes" - Nguyen Phu Phong, "Xuan Dieu ou le frisson nouveau de la nouvelle poésie" - Pha M Dan Binh, and "La transition entrepreneuriale dans..... More