Cambodia Handbook

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Cambodia:

History, Memory, and the Arts

Resource Packet


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ContentsBIBLIOGRAPHIES (pp. 3-13)

Kate Jellema (Marlboro College): Filling in the Gaps: Sources for the Study ofPrecolonial Cambodian History Before and After Angkor (pp. 2-5)

Ellen Furlough (University of Kentucky): Bibliography: France in Cambodia (English

Language) (p. 6)

Ben Kiernan (Yale University): Bibliography on Cambodian History and Historiography

(p. 7)

Lou Ratt (Hill Center for World Studies): Cambodia in World History and World

Studies: Topics for Study (pp. 8-12)

WEB SOURCES (pp. 14-18)

Kate Jellema (Marlboro College (p. 13))

Lou Ratt (Hill Center for World Studies) (pp. 14-17)

INTRODUCING ARN CHORN-POND AND PRACH LY (p. 19)


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FILLING IN THE GAPS:

Sources for the Study of Precolonial Cambodian History

Before and After Angkor(Prepared by Kate Jellema, Marlboro College)

Most material on Cambodia deals with either the history and architecture of Angkor (9 th-

15th c) or with the late 19th-20th century. This list attempts to fill in some of the history

around the edges, by looking at what was happening in the region before and after

Angkor, from prehistory up to the middle of the 19th century. For this reading list, I beganwith the annotated bibliography in David ChandlersHistory of Cambodia (2nd

ed.,Westview, 1996), deleted sources that were highly specialized and the sources in

French, and supplemented with material published more recently. I also added a sectionon statecraft and cosmology in a regional context.

GENERAL HISTORY

Chandler, David.A History of Cambodia, Second Edition (Boulder, CO: Westview Press,1996).

A single-volume history of Cambodia which gives roughly equal weight to early

history, French colonialism and the modern period. One chapter covers the often-

neglected 15th-18th centuries. Includes an annotated bibliography of French andEnglish language sources.

Chandler, David P. The Land and People of Cambodia (New York, 1991).Historical and cultural overview aimed at a high school audience.

Snellgrove, David.Angkor: Before and After - A Cultural History of the Khmer

(Shambala, 2004).A comprehensive cultural history of the Khmers from the 5 th century to the present

which looks beyond Angkor into the wider realm of Khmer influence. A religious

scholar and Sanskrit expert, Dr. Snellgrove looks at the interplay of Brahmanical and

Buddhist religious traditions in Khmer culture.

PREHISTORY and EARLY HISTORY

Bayard, Donn. The Roots of Indo-Chinese Civilization, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 53, No. 1(Spring 1980): 89-114.

Good introduction to the prehistory of Cambodia.

Bellwood, Peter. Southeast Asia Before History, The Cambridge History of SoutheastAsia, edited by Nicholas Tarling (Cambridge, 1992): 55-136.

Briggs, J.P. The Ancient Khmer Empire (Philadelphia, 1951).


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The classic English-language history of early Cambodia drawing on Chinese, Sanskrit

and Khmer sources. See a concise summary of the history by the same author in theFar Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 6 (August 1947): 345-363.

Coedes,G. The Indianized States of Southeast Asia (Honolulu, 1975).

The classic account of the spread of Indian civilization throughout Southeast Asiaalong trading networks. Since challenged by histories which see more indigenous

autonomy.

Hall, Kenneth R. and John K. Whitmore, editors.Explorations in Early Southeast Asian

History: The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft(Ann Arbor, MI, 1976).

A collection of articles on early Southeast Asia written by regional specialists. The

book includes a syllabus and somewhat dated reading list for a graduate-level coursecalled Southeast Asia to 1300.

Higham, Charles. The Civilization of Angkor (California, 2002).

The leading archeologist of mainland Southeast Asia here offers a political history ofthe area from prehistoric times through the decline of Angkor. Gives some attentionto the early states of Funan and Chenla. Too detailed for the general reader.

Mabbett, I.W. The Indianization of Southeast Asia: Reflections on the PrehistoricSources,Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol 8., no 1 (1977).

A rethinking of many of the scholarly assumptions about the timing and extent of

Indian influence on mainland Southeast Asia.

Pym, Christopher. The Ancient Civilization of Angkor (New York, 1968).

Still a fine, readable history.

AFTER ANGKOR (15th

to early 19th

centuries)

Chandler, David.A History of Cambodia, Second Edition (Boulder, CO: Westview Press,1996).

Chapter 5 of this historical overview attends to the 15 th-18th centuries, while chapters

6 and 7 discuss first half of the 19th century.

Lieberman, Victor. Transcending East-West Dichotomies: State and Culture Formation

in Six Ostensibly Disparate Areas,Modern Asian Studies, vol 31 no 3 (1997).

Lieberman, by training a historian of Burma, attempts to overcome polarizedEast/West dichotomies by exploring the possibility that similar processes occurring

across Eurasia between 1400-1800 might constitute a historically meaningful "earlymodern" period for the entire region. He has recently published a two-volume book

on the same subject.

Reid, Anthony, editor. Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era: Trade, Power and Belief(Cornell, 1993).

Looks at the role international commerce played in shaping political and religiousidentities across Southeast Asia from the 15th to 17th centuries.


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Vickery, Michael. Cambodia after Angkor: The Chronicular Evidence for the 14 th to the16th Centuries (Ann Arbor, Mich, 1977).

A technical study of the Cambodian chronicles from this era. See the last chapter for

an overview of the time period.

COSMOLOGY & THE STATE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Aeusrivongse, Nidhi. Devaraja Cult and Khmer Kingship at Angkor, inExplorations in

Early Southeast Asian History: The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft, edited byKenneth R. Hall and John K. Whitmore (Ann Arbor, MI, 1976).

Study of the cult of the god-king in the classical Khmer state.

Anderson, Benedict R. OG. The Idea of Power in Javanese Culture, in Language andPower: Exploring Political Cultures in Indonesia (Cornell, 1990).

In contrast to Western notions of power, Anderson argues, power in Javanese

tradition is a concrete energy which animates the universe and is finite, such that if itaccumlates in one place it diminishes in another. Good discussion piece.

Geertz, Clifford.Negara: The Theater State in Nineteenth Century Bali (Princeton,1980).

Classic anthropological account of Bali as a theater state with a focus on spectacle,

ceremony and public dramatizations of power.

Hall, Kenneth R. An Introductory Essay on Southeast Asian Statecraft in the Classical

Period, inExplorations in Early Southeast Asian History: The Origins of SoutheastAsian Statecraft, edited by Kenneth R. Hall and John K. Whitmore (Ann Arbor, MI,

1976).

Examines various aspects of the relationship between ruler and ruled in earlySoutheast Asia. Argues that the objective of local statecraft was control over people,

not land. See the entire volume for comparative perspectives on cosmology and thestate in early Southeast Asia.

Heine-Geldern, Robert. Conceptions of State and Kingship in Southeast Asia (Ithaca:Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1956).

In this influential book, Heine-Geldern argues that in the classic Southeast Asian

belief system, the microcosmos reflected the macrocosmos. The capital is the magiccenter of the universe and the king partakes of the divine.

Kulke, Herman. The Devaraja Cult(Ithaca, NY, 1978)

Looks at kingship and its relation to religion at Angkor. See also Kulkes chapter,

The early and the imperial kingdom in Southeast Asian history, in Southeast Asia in

the 9th to 14th Centuries, edited by David Marr and AC Milner (Singapore, 1986).

Mabbett, Ian. Kingship in Angkor,Journal of the Siam Society, Vol 66, No. 2 (July

1978): 1-58.


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Taylor, Keith. Authority and Legitimacy in 11th Century Vietnam, in Southeast Asia inthe 9th to 14th Centuries, edited by David Marr and AC Milner (Singapore, 1986).

Argues that that the Ly dynasty of 11th century Vietnam was able to win loyalty of the

populace not through a centralized bureaucracy or through force but rather through a

"Ly dynasty religion" in which kings were men of virtue able to obtain supernaturalblessing for the prosperity of the realm.


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Bibliography: France in Cambodia (English language only)(Prepared by Ellen Furlough, University of Kentucky)

A. GeneralSecondary Works

Robert Aldrich, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion (1996). A

general treatment that puts the French protectorate of Cambodia within the broader

perspective of French imperialism.

David Chandler, A History of Cambodia (3 rd ed. 2000).

Penny Edwards, Propagender: Marianne, Joan of Arc and the Export of French gender

Ideology to Colonial Cambodia, 1863-1954. In Tony Chafer and Amanda Sackur,

Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (2002).

John Tully. France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953 (2002).

Milton Osborne. The French Presence in Cochinchina and Cambodia: Rule andResponse, 1859-1905 (1969).

B. Primary Sources

Harry Franck, East of Siam: Ramblings in the five divisions of French Indo-China

(1926). Travel narrative by an American writer.

Andr Malraux, The Royal Way (1935). Translation of La Voie royale (1930). A fictionalwork that is based partly on Malrauxs archeological expedition to Angkor and Indochina

in the mid-1920s.

Grace Seton, Poison Arrows: A Strange Journey with an Opium Dreamer ThroughAnnam, Cambodia, Siam, and the Lotus Isle of Bali (1940). A travel narrative that

includes chapters on Phnom-Penh and Angkor.


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Bibliography on Cambodian History and Historiography:(Prepared by Ben Kiernan, Yale University)

David M. Ayres, Anatomy of a Crisis: Education, Development and the State in

Cambodia, 1953-1998, Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 2000.

David P. Chandler, "Seeing Red: Perceptions of Cambodian History inDemocratic Kampuchea," in Chandler and Ben Kiernan, eds., Revolution and Its

Aftermath in Kampuchea, New Haven, Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 1983, pp. 34-56.

Justin Jordens, A 1991 State of Cambodia Political Education Text:

Exposition and Analysis, Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies Working

Paper no. 71, 1991.

Ben Kiernan, How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism and Communism

in Cambodia, 1930-1975, second edition, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2004.

Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under theKhmer Rouge, 1975-1979, second edition, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2002.

Ben Kiernan, "Recovering History and Justice in Cambodia," Comparativ 14/2004, 5/6,

pp. 76-85:www.yale.edu/cgp/KiernanComparativ2004.doc (abridged version,"Coming to Terms

with the Past: Cambodia," History Today (London), September 2004, pp. 16-19:

www.yale.edu/cgp/Cambodia11.pdf )

Mailing Address:

Ben Kiernan,

A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History,

Professor of International and Area Studies,Director, Genocide Studies Program,

Yale University,

Box 208324, New Haven,CT 06520-8324, USA.

E-mail:

Phone: (203) 432 2870

Fax (History Department): (203) 432 7587Genocide Studies Program website: www.yale.edu/gsp


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CAMBODIA IN WORLD HISTORY AND WORLD STUDIES: TOPICS FOR

STUDY

Art and the Art Market Today

Nagashima, Masayuki, The Lost Heritage: The Reality of Artifact Smuggling in Southeast

Asia, (Bangkok: Post Books, 2002)

As The New York Times recently reported, Cambodian temples are still being plundered,as they have been since the middle of the 19th century when the French discovered

them. This little book by a Japanese journalist provides information on the trade in

plundered art from Cambodia, focusing on smuggling routes and the market in Thailand.Author Nagashima provides an historical context and informative photographs. The book

was published in Thailand but Post Books has both an email address and a web site so

you can order directly. The email address is [email protected] and the webaddress is www.bangkokpost.com/postbooks.

New Approaches to the Study of Buddhism

Lopez, Donald S., ed., Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism underColonialism, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)

The contributors to this book provide us with fascinating studies of how Western scholars

created the discipline of Buddhist Studies in the West. The context for the emergence ofBuddhist Studies was, of course, European colonialism, and contributors make full use of

colonial and postcolonial insights in their work. Of special interest for us is Chapter 1:Charles Hallisey, Roads Taken and Not Taken in the Study of Theravada Buddhism,

pp. 31-61. Halllisey sets the work of T.W. Rhys Davis, who became one of the canonicalscholars of Buddhism for Western audiences, against the work of scholars of Buddhism

in Cambodia during the period of French rule. These lesser-known scholars did work on

texts that did not easily fit with Rhys Davis canon. Today their work is important for

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Marston, John, and Elizabeth Guthrie, eds.,History, Buddhism, and New Religious

Movements in Cambodia, (Honolulu: University of HawaiI Press, 2004)

This is a wonderful little book that will provide readers with a real sense that there is

much to learn about how Cambodians have interpreted the message of Buddhism from

the time of Angkor to the present. Contributors use new approaches in criticalscholarship to argue for the importance of placing the study of religious thought and

religious movements in lived historical experience so that we do not continue to talk in

the essentialist language of the 19th century and the colonial construction of knowledge.

All the essays are enlightening, but I found the article by Kathryn Poethig, Locating theTransnational in Cambodias Dhammayatra, (pp. 197-212) to be particularly thought

provoking. Poethig tells us that the Dhammayatra, or peace walk, in Cambodia and

across borders with neighboring Vietnam and Thailand is not a uniquely or even

originally Cambodian event, but it is represented as being indigenous for the benefit ofdonors, especially those Americans who think in terms of identity and authenticity. The

Dhammayatra, says Poethig, is a transnational event; and so is Buddhism itself.

Cultural Studies Approaches to the Study of French Colonialism

Lebovics, Herman, True France: The Wars over Cultural Identity, 1900-1945, (Ithaca:

Cornell University Press, 1992)

In recent years the study of Worlds Fairs has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention

since at these fairs the colonizing nations of the West (Britain, France, and United States)

organized the world for representation in ways that reveal the ideological frameworks ofcolonialism. The way the fairgrounds and buildings were laid out was meant to project a

powerful image of the colonizing country as the center of rings of dependencies.

Lebovics provides us with a vivid account of what Cambodia (and other Frenchpossessions) were supposed to mean to Frenchmen and women who attended a colonialexposition at the time of the world-wide depression in 1931. See especially Chapter

Two: The Seductions of the Picturesque and the Irresistible Magic of Art, pp. 51-97.

Jennings, Eric T., Vichy in the Tropics: Ptains National Revolution in Madagascar,Guadeloupe, and Indochine, 1940-1944, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001)

Here is a book that focuses our attention on something that we simply might not have

thought to ask about: what happened to the French Empire during World War II after thefall of France? Who ruled the empire, German occupied France or Vichy, the

collaborationist government set up by Marshall Ptain? The three areas that Jenningsstudies Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina (including Vietnam and Cambodia)

came under Vichy rule. We learn here that Ptain was equated to Confucius (of morerelevance to the Chinese-oriented Vietnamese than to the Cambodians) and that

Cambodians and others were encouraged to recognize their true cultural identity and

become good Cambodians. Such a policy was in keeping not only with Vichy Frances

Fascist style anti-modernism, but also with theFrnech colonial policy of assocation,which replaced the earlier policy of assimilation.


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Modernity in Cambodia

Ly, Daravuth, and Ingrid Muan, eds., Cultures of Independence: An Introduction to

Cambodian Arts and Culture in the 1950s and 1960s, (Phnom Penh: Reyum, 2001)

It is not easy to find scholarly work on cultural production in Cambodia in the bried

period between the end of French colonial rule in 1953 and the beginnings of social

upheaval under first Lon Nol and then Pol Pot in the 1970s. This book, put out by

Reyum Gallery in Phnom Penh and recommended to us by Elizabeth Chea of WorldEducation, is therefore a most welcome discovery. The collection has articles on

architecture, theater, cinema, music and painting during the two culturally rich decades of

the 1950s and 1960s. There are lots of photographs and essays are in English and Khmer

and some are in French. Reyum has an email address and if you are interested you mightbe able to get the book through them: [email protected]

Cambodia and the Vietnam War

Young, Marilyn B., The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, (New York: Harper Collins

Publishers, 1991)

This is historian Marilyn Youngs now classic study of America and the Vietnam War,and it is still very much worth reading lest we forget what that earlier war was all about.

Cambodia figures throughout these pages, but pay special attention to pp. 236-238 for

information on American bombing. Chapter Fifteen: After the War (1975-1990), pp.300-317, provides insights into American Cold War strategies and how they were played

out in Cambodia during the period when the Vietnamese occupied the county, 1979-

1989.

The Khmer Rouge

Kiernan, Ben, The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the

Khmer Rouge, 19975-79, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002). First published in1996; second edition 2002.

Chandler, David, Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pots Secret Prison ,

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)

Chandler, David,Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot, (Boulder:Westview Press, 1992)

Short, Philip, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, (New York: Henry Holy and Co., 2004)


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After the Khmer Rouge

Gottessman, Evan, Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge; Inside the Politics of Nation

Building, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003)

This is too long and dense a book to really qualify as a page turner, and yet it gives suchan intimate picture of a period so difficult to get a grasp of that it really seemed that way.

When the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in late 1978 what did they find? Who did they

find? What was there to do? Gottessmans book puts much of the journal literature on

this period into perspective by providing an overall frame that addresses these questions.As a consequence, essays on topics such as education and healt which seemed

impenetrable make more sense. One of the impressions that this book creates is that the

Vietnamese assumed the existence of a bureaucratic state, even though none existed, and

simply found Cambodians to fill the slots available on paper. It reminds me a little of theWestern Europeans at the Berlin Conference dividing up Africa. In other words, there

was a paper state, and it only had to be manned. Among those available to fill the slots

were educated Cambodians who had survived the Khmer Rouge period, Khmer Rougemembers who had deserted before 1979, like the then young Hun Sen, Khmer Rougemembers who had not recanted but who had administrative skills, beneficiaries of

nepotism practiced by those who got the jobs, and various Vietnamese administrators.

One reads this book with renewed belief in (if not faith in) the virtues of pragmatism and

survival skills. It is just a shame the book does not go up to the present day. It wouldreally be helpful to read a similar study of how the NGO presence in Cambodia today got

to be the size it currently is.

Slocomb, Margaret, The Peoples Republic of Kampuchea, 1979-1988, (Bangkok:

Silkworm Books, 2003)

Bizot, Francois, The Gate, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)

Bizot is a French scholar of Buddhism in Cambodia who had the misfortune to be

captured and imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge. He obviously lived through his ordeal

and has written a book which gives something of a picture of what it must have been liketo be a prisoner under horrendous conditions.

Ebihara, May M, Carol A. Mortland and Judy Legderwood, eds., Cambodian Culture

Since 1975, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994)

The U.N. Involvement(Prepared by John Ratt)

The United Nations Transitional Administration in Cambodia (UNTAC) was the largest,most costly, and most ambitious program in nation building ever undertaken by the UN.

Three works dealing with this program are listed here, one of which (Curtis) embraces

the larger context from the mid-1970s to the end of 1997. We list them here, and also

some reviews which are available not only in their original scholarly locus, but asdownloadable items for purchase at Amazon.com//


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Grant Curtis, Cambodia Reborn? The Transition to Democracy and Development.Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press; Geneva: The United Nations Research

Institute for Development. 1998.

Review: Justus M. van der Kroef,International Journal on World Peace, Vol. 17,Issue 3 (September, 2000) (Perhaps, as Curtis notes, it was the very profusion of

foreign aid agencies, and the largess at their disposal, that has been more

instrumental in blocking the growth of indigenous Cambodian civil society

institutions.)

Pierre P. Lize, Peace, Power and Resistance in Cambodia: Global Governance and the

Failure of Conflict Resolution. London: Macmillan, 1999.

Review: Carlyle A. Thayer, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 21, Issue 3. (In

sum, this is a powerfully written critique of the United Nations orthodox and

misguided approach to peace-building in the post-Cold War era. It challenges theconceptual premises on which UN intervention has been based and provides adevastating account of why the UN failed to achieve its main objective of creating

a democratic Cambodian state based on non-violence and the rule of law.)

Steve Heder, Judy Ledgerwood, eds., Propaganda, Politics, and Violence in Cambodia:Democratic Transition under United Nations Peacekeeping. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe,

1996.

Review: Chad Raymond,Journal of Contemporary Asia, March, 1997. (This

insiders view of the various domestic political factions in Cambodia and their

conduct during the election periodshould also be required reading for the policyexperts who have made Cambodia the dumping ground for global and regionalconflicts, as well as UN peace negotiators who have so far failed to recognize the

problem of organizing electoral contests between heavily-armed adversaries incountries without a tradition of Western-style parliamentary democracy.)

Review: Martin Collacott, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 69, Issue 3 (September, 1996)(Thiscollection of papers by seven authors who were attached to the

Information/ Education Division [of UNTAC] provide snapshots of various

aspects of the transition processprovides a wealth of valuable detail and

analysis and is essential reading for anyone seeking a more complete

understanding of what transpired during the UNTAC period.)

Cambodia Today

Stewart, Frank, and Sharon May, eds.,In the Shadow of Angkor: Contemporary Writing

from Cambodia, (Honolulu: University of HawaiI Press, 2004)


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CAMBODIA SOURCES ON THE WEB

(Prepared by Kate Jellema, Marlboro College)

For syllabus development, there do seem to be some good resources on theweb, including:

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/Ledgerwood/CourseSyllabus.htm (including a

good bibliography)

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/crossroads/crsylspring05.htmhttp://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/SoutheastAsia/outreach/resources/CambodiaWebU

nit/cambodia.html (full study kit + online resources)

http://www.cambodianmasters.org/masters/masters_in_classroom/pages/classroom

.htmhttp://www.vermonthumanities.org/index_files/page0039.htm

http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/southeastasia/kp_seasia.htm (all of SEA)

See also the "Links" section at http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/.

http://floweringcity.org/kci/Main%20Mission.htm, committed to promoting

higher education in the US while preserving Cambodian cultural heritage.

Kate Jellema

23 Chapin Street

Brattleboro, VT 05301(802) 254-7024


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ADDITIONAL CAMBODIA SOURCES ON THE WEB

(Prepared by Lou Ratt, Hill Center for World Studies)

http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/documents/camb-cons.htm

This will give you the text of the 1993 Constitution of Cambodia

http://www.khmerstudies.org/ Homepage for Khmer Studies Center in Siemreap and Phnom Penh. Browsing through

and checking some of the links can give you lots of ideas about scholarship on Cambodia

and a good sense of how Cambodia is studied. You can find links here to programs

involving restoration and conservation at the temples from the many and various nationalgroups.

http://www.khmerstudies.org/events/trendfinal.htm#Winter Articles from a conference on Khmer Studies focusing on tourism.

http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/SoutheastAsia/outreach/resources/CambodiaWebUnit/ca

mbodia.html

Curriculum designed for K-12 by the Outreach department at Cornell. It looks great foryounger students. It has simple text and lots of very nice pictures. Take a look. This is

the best site for immediate use by students.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccba/cear/issues/fall97/text-only/regional/whooley.htm

Article by James Whooley,, Columbia University, on the coup in Cambodia in 1997.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/PUBS/SLANT/FALL97/article7.html Columbia University has several short articles on Cambodia. This one is on land mines.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/PUBS/SLANT/FALL97/article15.html

http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/documents/camb-cons.htm

This will give you the text of the 1993 Constitution of Cambodia

http://www.khmerstudies.org/ Homepage for Khmer Studies Center in Siemreap and Phnom Penh. Browsing through

and checking some of the links can give you lots of ideas about scholarship on Cambodiaand a good sense of how Cambodia is studied. Yuou can find links here to programs

involving restoration and conservation at the temples from the many and various nationalgroups.

http://www.khmerstudies.org/events/trendfinal.htm#Winter

Articles from a conference on Khmer Studies focusing on tourism.


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http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/SoutheastAsia/outreach/resources/CambodiaWebUnit/ca

mbodia.htmlCurriculum designed for K-12 by the Outreach department at Cornell. It looks great for

younger students. It has simple text and lots of very nice pictures. Take a look. This is

the best site for immediate use by students.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccba/cear/issues/fall97/text-only/regional/whooley.htm

Article by James Whooley,, Columbia University, on the coup in Cambodia in 1997.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/PUBS/SLANT/FALL97/article7.html Columbia University has several short articles on Cambodia. This one is on land mines.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/PUBS/SLANT/FALL97/article15.html

This is an article from Columbia on the coup of 1997.

http://www.tc.columbia.edu/cice/articles/tc121.htm

This is an article from the Columbia site on the period of Vietnamese occupation, 1979 to1989. It could be an important source for upper level high school students and collegestudents wanting to know more about Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge period. It

focuses on education.

http://usearch.cc.columbia.edu/query.html?col=cuweb&ht=0&qp=&qs=&qc=&pw=100%25&la=en&charset=iso-8859-1&si=1&fs=&qt=Cambodia&ex=&rq=0&oq=&ws =

This is the Columbia site with over 400 articles touching on Cambodia. It is well worth

looking at.

http://floweringcity.org/kci/Main%20Mission.htm

This is a site in Lowell, the largest Khmer cultural center in the Northeast. It has somelinks that you will find interesting.

http://www.global-children.org/news1.html

Site for Brattleboro-based Global Children organization.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/01/news/globalist.html

Recent article (April 2, 2005) on the genocide trials in the International Herald Tribune.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cb.html U.S. Government Fact Book on Cambodia.

http://www.cambodia.org/

Cambodian Information Center site.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/khtoc.html

Library of Congress site on Cambodia. Use for basic info.

http://www.yale.edu/cgp/


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Yale Genocide Project site.

http://www.yale.edu/cgp/us.html

This is a link on the Yale site specifically devoted to American involvement in

Cambodia. It includes some primary source materials and references as well as a

bibliography of secondary sources.

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/Ledgerwood/bibliography.htm

Judy Ledgerwoods bibliography.

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/Ledgerwood/Contents.htm

This is a really fine online course with links offered by Judy Ledgerwood. Do look at it.

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/Ledgerwood/july_56_1997_events.htm Judy Ledgerwoods article on the coup of 1997. It includes pictures.

http://www.asiasource.org/cambodia/reamker.htm This is one of several sources on the Reamker, the Khmer story of Rama and Site. In

India it is called The Ramayana.

http://www.descartes-cambodge.com/travauxeleves/secondes/reamker/2intro/pagesitemap1.htm

Another good site on the Reamker, especially for use with young students. I think you

will really like this one.

http://www.reyum.org/media/misc-articles/reamker.htm From the Reyum Gallery in Phnom Penh, telling about the version of Reamker they

brought out in 2002.

http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias/SEARama/RamaReferences.htm Helpful source for further information on the Reamker/Ramayana in Southeast Asia and

India.

http://www.asiasource.org/cambodia/index.html This is a very handsome site devoted to Cambodian dance.

http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/orias/SEARama/RamaCambodia.htm

This is the Berkeley site with the Cambodia information.

http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias/hero/ramayana/shadowplay_ramayana.html

Ramayana script written for a shadow play version of Ramayana by 6 th graders. The

location is Java (Indonesia) but something similar could easily be done for Cambodia andthe Reamker. There are directions for how to make the puppets.


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http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/special/ramayana/Bengali/Bengaliscrolls.html This is such a nice site I couldnt resist including it, especially for students in the younger

grades. It consists of folk pictures of Ramayana characters and episodes from Bengali

scroll painting in India.

http://www.hvk.org/articles/0402/261.html

Short newspaper piece from The Times of India comparaing Reamker and Ramayana.


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Arn Chorn Pond is an

internationally recognized humanrights activist, community

organizer, and musician who

survived the Cambodian genocide.

Like millions of his fellowcountrymen, Arn spent four years in

a labor camp, but survived by the

playing the flute in a music

ensemble created by Khmer Rougeleaders to play the regime's songs.

At fifteen, he fled the Khmer Rouge

and found his way to a refugee

camp in Thailand, wherePeter Pond, an American aid worker

and minister, befriended and

adopted him.

As he struggled with his own suffering and horror, Arn began reaching out to others,

founding or co-founding several organizations including Children of War and Cambodian

Living Arts. While living in Providence and Lowell, Massachussetts, Arn worked with

Cambodian and Latino gang members.

As the founder of Cambodian Living Arts, Arn spends most of his time in Cambodia,

bridging older and younger generations of Cambodians in the work of restoring, teaching,recording and performing of traditional music and the arts. Arn, the subject of the deeply

moving documentary "The Flute Player," will share his extraordinary story of survival

and hope, and describe how we can each contribute to the essential work of peace.

Prach Ly was born in Battambang

in 1979, during the time of the

Vietnamese invasion ofCambodia. His parents fled with

him to the Thai border and from

there the family made the rest of

the trip until they reached LongBeach, California, the biggest

Cambodian settlement on theWest Coast. Prach grew up

listening to rap and he made hisfirst tape in his garage. The tape

made its way back to Cambodia

where it was pirated and Prach

became the first Cambodianrapper in the country.


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Documents

Cambodia Handbook