Download or read book Cambodia and the Sihanouk Myths written by J. L. S. Girling and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1971 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the invitation of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, he gave a seminar on 'Cambodia and the Sihanouk Myths' on March 31, 1971. It was the subject of his current research and gave the members of the seminar an opportunity to hear a different interpretation of the fall of Sihanouk and the inter-relatonship of domestic and external affairs which led to it.
Download or read book Sihanouk written by Milton Osborne and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941 Norodom Sihanouk ascended the Cambodian throne, supported by the French with the intent that he be their puppet king. Milton Osborne traces the complete background leading to this event, and then follows Sihanouk's remarkable growth to political maturity: his transformation from a dilettante king to a vigorous and sometimes ruthless politician. Fully acknowledging his remarkable energy, the book shows how the early years of Sihanouk's successes turned sour as, unwilling to share responsibility, he gradually alienated politicians on both the left and the right. Convinced that he alone knew what was best for Cambodia, his repression of dissent became more vicious and led finally to his overthrow in 1970.
Download or read book Sideshow written by William Shawcross and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many books and films dealing with the Vietnam War, Sideshow tells the truth about America's secret and illegal war with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973. William Shawcross interviewed hundreds of people of all nationalities, including cabinet ministers, military men, and civil servants, and extensively researched U.S. Government documents. This full-scale investigation—with material new to this edition—exposes how Kissinger and Nixon treated Cambodia as a sideshow. Although the president and his assistant claimed that a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia was necessary to eliminate North Vietnamese soldiers who were attacking American troops across the border, Shawcross maintains that the bombings only spread the conflict, but led to the rise of the Khmer Rouge and the subsequent massacre of a third of Cambodia's population.
Download or read book Golden Bones written by Sichan Siv and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s, the neighbouring country of Cambodia was attacked from within by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge imprisoned, enslaved, and murdered the educated and intellectual members of the population, resulting in the harrowing "killing fields"–rice paddies where the harvest yielded nothing but millions of skulls. Young Sichan Siv–a target since he was a university graduate–was told by his mother to run and "never give up hope!" Captured and put to work in a slave labor camp, Siv knew it was only a matter of time before he would be worked to death–or killed. With a daring escape from a logging truck and a desperate run for freedom through the jungle, including falling into a dreaded pungi pit, Siv finally came upon a colorfully dressed farmer who said, "Welcome to Thailand." He spent months teaching English in a refugee camp in Thailand while regaining his strength, eventually Siv was allowed entry into the United States. Upon his arrival in the U.S., Siv kept striving. Eventually rising to become a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Siv returned with great trepidation to the killing fields of Cambodia in 1992 as a senior representative of the U.S. government. It was an emotionally overwhelming visit.
Download or read book The Pol Pot Regime written by Ben Kiernan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Ben Kiernan's account of the Cambodian revolution and genocide includes a new preface that takes the story up to 2008 and the UN-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. Kiernan's other books include 'Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur' and 'How Pol Pot Came to Power'.
Download or read book Cambodia s Second Kingdom written by Astrid Noren-Nilsson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system. Competing nationalistic imaginings are shown to be a more prominent part of party political contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia than typically believed. For political parties, nationalistic imaginings became the basis for strategies to attract popular support, electoral victories, and moral legitimacy. Astrid Norén-Nilsson uses uncommon sources, such as interviews with key contemporary political actors, to analyze Cambodia’s postconflict reconstruction politics. This book exposes how nationalist imaginings, typically understood to be associated with political opposition, have been central to the reworking of political identities and legitimacy bids across the political spectrum. Norén-Nilsson examines the entanglement of notions of democracy and national identity and traces out a tension between domestic elite imaginings and the liberal democratic framework in which they operate
Download or read book Cambodia s Curse written by Joel Brinkley and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge. A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. Although the international community tried to rebuild Cambodia and introduce democracy in the 1990s, in the country remained in the grip of a venal government. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley learned that almost a half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffered from P.T.S.D. -- and had passed their trauma to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia's Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.
Download or read book Cambodian Buddhism written by Ian Harris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Cambodian religion has long been hampered by a lack of easily accessible scholarship. This impressive new work by Ian Harris thus fills a major gap and offers English-language scholars a booklength, up-to-date treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture. Beginning with a coherent history of the presence of religion in the country from its inception to the present day, the book goes on to furnish insights into the distinctive nature of Cambodia's important yet overlooked manifestation of Theravada Buddhist tradition and to show how it reestablished itself following almost total annihilation during the Pol Pot period. Historical sections cover the dominant role of tantric Mahayana concepts and rituals under the last great king of Angkor, Jayavarman VII (1181–c. 1220); the rise of Theravada traditions after the collapse of the Angkorian civilization; the impact of foreign influences on the development of the nineteenth-century monastic order; and politicized Buddhism and the Buddhist contribution to an emerging sense of Khmer nationhood. The Buddhism practiced in Cambodia has much in common with parallel traditions in Thailand and Sri Lanka, yet there are also significant differences. The book concentrates on these and illustrates how a distinctly Cambodian Theravada developed by accommodating itself to premodern Khmer modes of thought. Following the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk in 1970, Cambodia slid rapidly into disorder and violence. Later chapters chart the elimination of institutional Buddhism under the Khmer Rouge and its gradual reemergence after Pol Pot, the restoration of the monastic order's prerevolutionary institutional forms, and the emergence of contemporary Buddhist groupings.
Download or read book The Myth Of Victory written by Richard W Hobbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Hobbs examines one of society’s greatest problems: the need for reconciliation between the democratic dislike of war and the appropriate use of the military instrument in world politics. He questions whether the results obtained in war are worth the expenditures made and contends that victory gained from total war—war pushed to its outer li
Download or read book Counter Insurgency and the Economic Factor written by Richard Stubbs and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1974-12-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the wealth generated by the Korean War boom and its contribution to the successful implementation of the government's counter-geurilla policies. Aims at demonstrating the importance of the boom as one of a number of necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for the success of the Malayan Government.
Download or read book The Status of Women in Law written by Ng Shui Meng and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1977 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, an attempt is made to examine and compare the legal status of women in the Republic of China, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand, with special focus on laws which discriminate against women. In view of differences in the cultural background of these four countries - Confucianism in China, Islam in Malaysia, Catholicism and the Spanish influence in the in the Philippines and Buddhism in Thailand - it is likely that laws in these countries also differ. This paper also tries to relate the legal status of women in these countries to other apsect of their status, in particular, the social, economic and political aspects.
Download or read book The Asian Village written by Robert Orr Whyte and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the potential for rural progress of the Asian village, especially in monsoonal and equatorial areas. Contents include distinctions and relations between rural and urban, origin and evolution of ecosystems involving rural man, location and morphology of villages, social and agrarian patterns, the sociology of labour, land use, rural water use, nutrition, health, child-rearing and rural evolution at present. With 20 diagrams.
Download or read book Autobiography Biography in Malay Historical Studies written by William R. Roff and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1972 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper was written by one of the leaders of a new trend in the field of Malay historical writing. It reflects the trend of scholars both foreign and local, using Malay as a major tool in research, and their turning away from the colonial record to indigenous sources in order to write a more authentic history of the Malay peoples and institutions.
Download or read book Economic and Political Trends in Southeast Asia written by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1973 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers and Proceedings of a Seminar organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.
Download or read book Revival of Japanese Militarism written by Tatsumi Okabe and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1974 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the probabilities of the revival of Japanese militarism, seen in terms of the sending of Japanese naval vessels and troops to Southeast Asia to potect Japan's economic interests in the region within the context of the accelerating conditions for the emergence of militarism - domestic needs, spiritual preparation, large-scale armament and international environment.
Download or read book Politics and Industrialization in Late Imperial China written by Wellington K.K. Chan and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1975 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses the early phase of Chinese industrial efforts to demonstrate that Chinese political values significantly and assuredly affected the way modern industry was promoted and developed. Both values and environment can change, and it is their interaction that determines some specific ideological content and thrust.
Download or read book Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand written by Robert F. Zimmerman and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1978-04-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the three-year attempt by the Thai people to establish a viable democratic political process. It focuses on the primary reasons for their failure: excessive right-left student activism, political polarization, intellectual-academic irresponsibility, status quo conservative and communist inspired subversion of the political process, ineffective civilian political leadership, excessive number of political parties, the impact of communist success in Indochina, and US foreign policy twards Thailand during this period. The paper also examines basic attitudes and patterns of action of traditional Thai political culture that may have indirectly contributed to the failure of democracy in Thailand. A central theme of the paper, however, is that old Thai bureaucratic polity that governed Thailand from 1932 to October 1973 collapsed because its political process could not cope with the rise of new economic and social pressures tht its earlier development 'successes' created. Thailand, in short, is seen as a case study of the hypothesis that long term economic development and political stability cannot occur and be maintained without corresponding development of the political structure and process that ultimately will develop and define the policies and processes most conducive to steady economic and social progress.
