Download or read book Cambodian Literary Reader and Glossary written by Franklin E. Huffman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambodian-English Glossary contains over 8,800 words. Originally published by Yale University Press, 1977. Reissued with permission by Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1988. This is the third in a series of Cambodian readers prepared by Franklin Huffman and Im Proum, following their Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader and Intermediate Cambodian Reader. The reader contains thirty-two selections from some of the most important and best-known works of Cambodian literature in a variety of genres—historical prose, folktales, epic poetry, didactic verse, religious literature, the modern novel, poems and songs, and so forth. The introduction is a general survey in English of Cambodian literature, and each section has an introduction in Cambodian. For pedagogical reasons, the selections are presented roughly in reverse chronological order, from modern prose to the very esoteric and somewhat archaic verse of the Ream-Kie (the Cambodian version of the Ramayana). The reader concludes with a bibliography of some sixty items on Cambodian literature. The glossary combines the 4,000 or so items introduced in this reader with the more than 6,000 introduced in the previous two readers, making it the largest Cambodian-English glossary compiled to date. The definitions are more general and complete than one usually finds in a simple reader glossary, in which definitions are normally context-specific. Because the glossary is so useful in itself, it is being made available separately as well as bound with the reader.
Download or read book Cambodian Literary Reader and Glossary written by Franklin E. Huffman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambodian Literary Reader and Glossary written by Franklin E. Huffman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambodian system of writing and beginning reader with drills and glossary written by Franklin E. Huffman and published by . This book was released on with total page 1970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossary written by Franklin E. Huffman and published by Adam Wood. This book was released on 1970 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader contains 32 selections from some of the most important and best-known works of Cambodian literature in a variety of genres - historical prose, folktales, epic poetry, didactic verse, religious literature, the modern novel, poems and songs, and so forth. It concludes with a bibliography of some sixty items on Cambodian literature. The glossary combines the 4,000 or so items introduced in this reader with the more than 6,000 introduced in the previous two readers.
Download or read book Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossary written by Franklin E. Huffman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Four Foot Colonel written by Smith Dun and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commander-in-Chief of the Burmese Army, nicknamed the "four-foot Colonel," offers an account of his nation's struggle for independence from a unique perspective. General Dun describes his background, his early life and training (in England and India), and his involvement with the Burmese nationalist movement. He also explains his position in the struggles between the emerging Burmese nation and various minority groups such as the Karens, of which he was a member. This third-person account is filled with humor and insight and allows the reader a rare glimpse into the mind of a powerful personality.
Download or read book The Political Legacy of Aung San written by Josef Silverstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work compiles selected speeches, letters, and statements by the father of Burmese independence, Aung San. The editor's introduction offers an overview of this remarkable man's life, thought, and achievements. The documents included here provide insight into the politics of Aung San—an eminently pragmatic leader focused on attaining both national unity and social harmony—through his own words.
Download or read book A Malay Frontier written by Jane Drakard and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way in which Malays construe ideas about authority and government is the subject of this book. Focusing upon an often-ignored section of the Malay archipelago, Barus, a small kingdom on the coast of northwest Sumatra, the author compares readings based upon the royal chronicles of Hilir and Hulu Barus. She examines the relationship between the upland and the lowland to study the character of Malay political culture in Barus.
Download or read book Figures of Criminality in Indonesia the Philippines and Colonial Vietnam written by Vicente L. Rafael and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complex examination of "criminality" and "the criminal" as constructs and active presences in Southeast Asia. Contributors explore such themes as surveillance, incarceration, law and custom, secrecy, and corruption. A fascinating study of power and subversion in the modern postcolonial nation-state. Contributors include Daniel S. Lev, Henk M. J. Maier, Rudolf Mrazek, James T. Siegel, and others.
Download or read book Southern Vietnam under the Reign of Minh Mang 1820 1841 written by Choi Byung Wook and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of nineteenth-century Vietnam focuses on interactions between the Vietnamese king, Minh Mang, and the heterogeneous southern region of the country, which he sought to bring more firmly under state control through a series of polices intended to "Vietnamize" the populace and unite north and south.
Download or read book Paths to Conflagration written by Mayoury Ngaosyvathn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reexamination of the historical relationship between Laos and Thailand, by two preeminent Lao historians who bring to light a wealth of new source material in their evaluation of the Laotian leader, Chao Anou, and his failed revolt against Siam. This book challenges conventional Thai interpretations of that event and of the political conflicts leading up to it.
Download or read book The Hadrami Awakening written by Natalie Mobini-Kesheh and published by SEAP Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking study of the Hadrami community in Indonesia. The book considers the evolution of Indonesian Arab identity in the context of the rise of nationalism throughout Southeast Asia during the early twentieth century.
Download or read book Feasting and Social Oscillation written by A. Thomas Kirsch and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work argues that anthropologists have observed and recorded religious rites and rituals but have largely ignored the role of religion when constructing an analytical framework. The author contends that religious phenomena are inextricably intertwined with issues of power, politics, and economics among the upland groups (such as the Kachin) of Southeast Asia.
Download or read book Modern Spoken Cambodian written by Franklin E. Huffman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Yale University Press, 1970. To order accompanying CDs for this book, contact the Language Resource Center at Cornell University (http://lrc.cornell.edu).
Download or read book Vietnam and the West written by Wynn Wilcox and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sound interpretation of Vietnamese cultural attitudes contends that a major reason for American difficulties in Viet-Nam has been the failure to appreciate how wide the gulf is between Viet-Nam and the West. Professor Smith first describes Vietnamese political and social traditions and shows how they were challenged by the West after 1858. He examines Viet-Nam's search for independence and modernization in the first half of this century, contrasts the two governments of the partitioned country during the years 1954-1963, and stresses the critical need to reassess attitudes toward Viet-Nam. His sophisticated, ambitious survey of Viet-Nam history will have a lasting value that sets it apart from the scores of ephemeral books on this country.
Download or read book Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand written by Yoshinori Nishizaki and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful Thai politician Banharn Silpa-archa has been disparaged as a corrupt operator who for years channeled excessive state funds into developing his own rural province. This book reinterprets Banharm's career and offers a detailed portrait of the voters who support him. Relying on extensive interviews, the author shows how Banharm's constituents have developed a strong provincial identity based on their pride in his advancement of their province, Suphanburi, which many now call "Banharm-buri," the place of Banharm. Yoshinori Nishizaki's analysis challenges simplistic perceptions of rural Thai voters and raises vital questions about contemporary democracy in Thailand. Yoshinori Nishizaki's close and thorough examination of the numerous public construction projects sponsored and even personally funded by Banharn clearly illustrates this politician’s canny abilities and tireless, meticulous oversight of his domain. Banharn’s constituents are aware that Suphanburi was long considered a "backward" province by other Thais—notably the Bangkok elite. Suphanburians hold the neglectful central government responsible for their province’s former sorry condition and humiliating reputation. Banharn has successfully identified himself as the antithesis to the inefficient central state by promoting rapid "development" and advertising his own role in that development through well-publicized donations, public ceremonies, and visits to the sites of new buildings and highways. Much standard literature on rural politics and society in Thailand and other democratizing countries in Southeast Asia would categorize this politician as a typical "strongman," the boss of a semiviolent patronage network that squeezes votes out of the people. That standard analysis would utterly fail to recognize and understand the grassroots realities of Suphanburi that Nishizaki has captured in his study. This compassionate, well-grounded analysis challenges simplistic perceptions of rural Thai voters and raises vital questions about contemporary democracy in Thailand.
