1 21 668 Choden, Kunzang, FOLKTALES OF BHUTAN

This first attempt of a Bhutanese to record in English the oral tradition of this kingdom comprises a collection of 38 folktales and legends. The rugged and awesome terrain of Bhutan, which cherished a self-imposed isolation for centuries, and the people’s closeness to nature, together with their philosophy of karmic life cycles, an unquestioning belief in unseen co-inhabitants of the earth-like spirits, ghosts and demons, and the creative genius of the storytellers culminated in a remarkable repository of tales and legends which were passed on and developed through generations.

(Bangkok 1994) ISBN 974-8495-96-5

197 pp., illus., 148 x 210 mm 14.50

2 21 947 Choden, Kunzang, BHUTANESE TALES OF THE YETI

A collection of twenty-two stories set in four different regions of Bhutan. Belief in the yeti is ubiquitous in the Kingdoms of the Himalayas, where beliefs and attitudes related to it go beyond scientific judgment and analysis. The Bhutanese consider the yeti, or the migoi, to be an essential part of the backdrop of their existence. Believed to possess supernatural powers enabling it to become invisible at will, the yeti often manifests itself in a tangible form and then suddenly vanishes, leaving behind nothing but an unexpected void. Folklore about the abominable snowman has existed for centuries: however, with the far-reaching impact of the media, the perpetuation of this oral tradition is threatened. This collection of stories is an attempt to document a vital tradition before it is wiped out entirely.

(Bangkok 1997) ISBN 974-8496-87-2

165 pp., 23 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 14.50

3 21 628 FitzGerald, C. P., THE SOUTHERN EXPANSION OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE

Since the beginning of reliable historical evidence, Chinese influence, culture, and power have always moved southward. In the first part of this book, FitzGerald details how Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma had all, to varying degrees, come under the influence of and acknowledged the power of China. Malaya, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo, which never actually owed allegiance to China, nonetheless also experienced China’s influence and power. China’s political influence in Southeast Asia declined when southward territorial expansion ended with the rise of the Manchu Dynasty in 1664. Later, a massive migration of individual Chinese resulted in the large minorities of Chinese that can still be found in many Southeast Asian countries today. In the second part of his book, the author examines the cultural, economic, and political effects of this migration on the countries concerned and their implications for the future. Many of FitzGerald’s comments are prescient and pertinent today, and the book presents vital historical facts which need to be taken into account in any assessment of the probable future of the area.

(Bangkok 1993, repr. from 1972)

ISBN 974-8495-81-7

250 pp., 150 x 210 mm 27.50

4 22 106 Fuhrmann, Ernst, NEW GUINEA: PEOPLE AND ART

This work is the first English translation of a German introductory text published by well-known publisher Folkwang Verlag in Hagen in 1922. The book is based on photographs of objects in art collections in the major museums of Europe and has a special section on the ornamental designs of New Guinea. Sculpture and "body art," before the term was reinvented recently, are documented in detail. Other forms of art such as masks, furniture and house structures are also included. An introductory text places the art in its everyday context and discusses beliefs related to uses of the artifacts. Much of what is shown here has only been preserved in the museum collections on which the book was based.

(A German language version is also available.)

(Bangkok 1999, First English tranbslation of 1922) ISBN 974-7534-04-5

168 pp., 130 pp. illus., 210 x 290 mm, pbk. 20.00

5 21 161 Heinze, Ruth-Inge, TRANCE AND HEALING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA TODAY

The study looks at the role of faith in Southeast Asian healing rituals and investigates the needs which created the underlying belief systems, Shamans, mediums, and healers monitoring trances and mediating between different states of consciousness for the purpose of healing. In 21 case studies, the reader will observe a Meo shaman riding into the spirit world, the God Rama descending into the body of an Indian worker, and a Malay bomoh balancing the "wind" of a client during a main puteri. A Thai-Malay bomoh is transformed into a tiger and Singapore-Malays behave like horses. The book documents how Thai, Hindu, Malay, as well as Chinese mediums, with the help of Hindu, Taoist and Buddhist deities, deified heros, and nature spirits cure, exorcize, and advise their clients. The phenomena of automatic writing and glossolalia are also discussed. The book addresses, e.g., the following questions: Is the demand for spiritual guidance and help increasing or declining? Is the syncretism we find in modern belief systems strictly a theoretical issue which is of no importance to the participants in a ritual? And is shamanism an "elementary form of the religious life?" The book provides, furthermore, evidence for the needs which lead to the emergence of need-fulfillers wherever and whenever specific physiological, psychological, mental, social, and spiritual needs arise. Thus, when modern physicians, psychiatrists, and sometimes even priests, do not seem to have an answer, folk practitioners continue to fulfil basic human needs in modern multi-ethnic and multi-religious societies.

(Bangkok 1997; rev. ed.) ISBN 974-8496-72-4

366 pp., 48 pp. color illus., 150 x 210 mm,

pbk. 39.50

6 22 030 Iorns Magallanes, Catherine J. & Malcolm Holick (Eds), LAND CONFLICTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, ENVIRONMENT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

This book deals with the competing pressures being placed on land and resources worldwide as the world's population grows. Within states, these pressures are increasingly leading to conflicts over land and associated resources and these conflicts are increasingly becoming internationalized. This situation is nowhere better illustrated than in Southeast Asia. This book brings together a wide range of both academic and practical expertise. It examines and analyzes a range of conflicts over land and resources in Southeast Asia and makes recommendations for their resolution. The case studies discuss situations in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. They address develop-ment due to industrialization, mining, logging and tourism. The book then focuses on the international legal and political framework which applies to the various conflicts described. Finally, the editors make helpful suggestions for the prevention and resolution of such conflicts at both the national and international level.

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-52-4

398 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 30.00

7 21 797 Kloss, Boden C., IN THE ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS: ADVENTURES IN ETHNOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY

This book contains notes on the history of the islands, their fauna, flora, geology and ethnology, and the anthropomorphy, customs and languages of the various tribes that inhabit them.

(Bangkok 1995; repr. from 1903)

ISBN 974-8496-37-6

441 pp., 47 pp. illus., 3 maps, 155 x 215 mm,

pbk. 21.50

8 21 870 Ma Huan, YING-YAI SHENG-LAN: THE OVERALL SURVEY OF THE OCEAN’S SHORES (1433)

Ma Huan’s descriptions are based on personal observation, of twenty countries from Champa (Central Vietnam) in the East to Mecca in the West. Ma Huan was the Muslim interpreter of the famous Cheng Ho, commander of the Chinese Fleet. Of the sources for the history of southern Asia during the 15th century, the Chinese authorities are the most rewarding, and of these the most informative and interesting is Ma Huan. The 15th century was the heroic age of Chinese naval expansion; four Chinese fleets traversed the Indian Ocean simultaneously, and flotillas explored "the four seas" from southern Africa to Timor. The imperial court was thronged with royal visitors or envoys from 70 foreign countries from Japan to Hormuz, and Chinese manufactures were sought after in the markets of Asia from Majapahit to Baghdad.

This new translation is based on the definitive text established by the eminent Chinese scholar Feng Ch’eng-Chun and first published in 1935. Mr. Mills’s Introduction contains accounts of Cheng Ho’s expeditions and Ma Huan’s book. Eight appendices treat peripheral topics, mainly geographical and nautical; a gazetteer records the names of some 700 places known to the Chinese when their golden age of exploration ended in 1433; with the aid of printed and manuscript sailing directions, an attempt is made to explain about 600 names and legends in the remarkable maritime cartogram ("Mao K’un Map") published in the Wu Pei Chih, and to trace the stages of voyages made, inter alia, through the Singapore Strait, from Sumatra to Ceylon (Pieh-lo-li, Beruwala), and from Malacca to China. This text obtains new significance for what is not in it: this classic Chinese text shows no historical evidence to support Chinese claims to the Spratlys.

(Bangkok 1996; repr. from 1970)

ISBN 974-8496-78-3

413 pp., 1 folded map, 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 25.00

9 8 297 Taylor, John G., EAST TIMOR: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

In this updated and much expanded edition of his celebrated book, Indonesia’s Forgotten War: The Hidden History of East Timor, John Taylor tells in detail the story of what happened to his island people following President Suharto’s downfall in the wake of the Asian economic crisis. The new Indonesian government conceded the right of the United Nations to organize the long delayed referendum giving the East Timoreses a choice between continued association with Indonesia or independence. At the very moment the historic vote was being counted, however, armed gangs organized by elements of the Indonesian military plunged the island into an orgy of killing, burning and forced flight. An appalled world witnessed their bloody defiance of the people’s will and of the international community. John Taylor analyses the world’s reaction to this new genocide of the East Timorese people, the belated despatch of a peacekeeping force, and the prospects of independence.

(London, Bangkok 1999) ISBN 974-7534-18-5

285 pp., 135 x 225 mm, pbk. 19.50

10 22 118 Ainsworth, Leopold, A MERCHANT VENTURER AMONG THE SEA GYPSIES

This report is a seminal work on the Moken nomads and Lower Burma written by a businessman studying the area for its economic potential. The author’s ability to describe and penetrate into the very heart of the social and economic life of the Mergui Archipe-lago’s inhabitants makes this work both entertaining and very informative. Ainsworth describes the land, sea bed, and forests of many of the Moken islands, and trade relations established on the basis of local products, but his ethnological observations on disappearing funeral rituals and the love relationships between members of the different populations with whom he temporarily lived are particularly valuable today. His descriptions of Victoria Point, the lovely city of Mergui, and other picturesque villages can be appreciated by the most demanding travelers. Much of what he describes is still there, but, as is the case with the political life of the region, it is in great need of conscientious maintenance and adaptation work.

(Bangkok 1999; repr. from 1930)

ISBN 974-7534-09-6

330 pp., 16 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 15.00

11 21 301 Aung Aung Taik, VISIONS OF SHWEDAGON

The biography of a Burmese painter exiled in the USA. When a sensitive man, a painter and Buddhist, is separated from his homeland, culture and co-religionists by the universal experience of emigration, what happens to him? Aung Aung Taik underwent that experience. Ranging from the social elite of Burmese society to the fast-food supermarket culture of America, this treatise overcomes the past through love. It hands down as instructive a guide as any young painter could want on the genesis of that craft and its relationship to Buddhist teaching. An Asian in America, an artist in the world, few modern writers explore so profoundly the immediate and personal meaning of dharma.

(Bangkok 1988) ISBN 974-8495-30-2

269 pp., with author’s illus., 165 x 215 mm 17.50

12 22 014 Ball, Desmond, BURMA’S MILITARY SECRETS. Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) from the Second World War to Civil War and Cyber Warfare

This first book on signals warfare provides a unique view into all of the important military and political developments in Burma over the past half century based on the most secret and authoritative intelligence sources, i.e., signals intelligence (SIGINT) which involves radio interception, telecommunications surveillance, crypt analysis or code-breaking, and analysis of supposedly confidential signals. This book is filled with fascinating and explosive revelations about many important issues, such as:

-the special relationship between Burma and China. Over the past decades, China has become Burma's principal ally, major arms supplier, and only secret intelligence partner.

-the opium and heroin trade. Burma now accounts for two-thirds of the world's total production of heroin and the drug armies maintain sophisticated intelligence collection and communications systems.

-the SIGINT activities of the ethnic insurgent organis-ations, such as the Karen National Army.

-the battles at Manerplaw and Kawmura in January-February 1995, which involved some 15,000-20,000 troops, and which resulted in the loss of these strongholds to the Burmese Army.

-the use of electronic surveillance by the military junta in Rangoon to control dissent and rebellion.

-the organisation of Burma's security and intelligence establishment, including the dreaded Military Intelligence Service (MIS) headed by Khin Nyunt, and the new Cyber Warfare Department.

-the build-up of Burma's conventional arms capabilities, giving it the largest armed forces in Asia by the turn of the century.

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-50-8

310 pp., illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 25.00

13 4 404 Bo Yang, GOLDEN TRIANGLE: FRONTIER AND WILDERNESS

A Chinese writer covers the Thailand-Burma-Laos Triangle with opium warlord Khun Sa and the remnants of the KMT Army.

(Hong Kong 1987)

206 pp., 135 x 210 mm, pbk. 14.50

14 22 077 Clark, Carol, SEEING RED: A VIEW FROM INSIDE THE RUBY TRADE

The book is based on the author’s first hand experience working for one of Bangkok’s largest gem trading companies. It documents the ruby trade in Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam. Called ma naw na ya in Burma—"Wish-fulfilling stones"—rubies are believed to grant their wearer’s wishes. Both the trader’s modern-day mysteries and old traditions are the subject of this inside view.

(Bangkok 1999)

ISBN 974-8434-67-2

128 pp., 150 x 210mm, pbk. 14.50

15 21 400 Clifford, Hugh, FURTHER INDIA

A history of European exploration of Burma, Malaya, Siam, and Indo-China from the earliest times. This reprint remains the best overview of European exploration and discovery in Southeast Asia, with 6 additional old maps from 1904. Since the publication of Further India, other authors have written in detail about some of the explorations mentioned in it, but none has attempted a work of the same scope. Not only does the book provide a great range of material but it gives data which are difficult to find elsewhere, such as on the opening up of Burma. The work remains a solid and valuable source of information, and those interested in the geography, topography, economy and history of Southeast Asia and stories of courage and daring will wish to have a copy of the book. It is a book to which one will want to turn often.

(Bangkok 1990; repr. from 1904)

ISBN 974-8495-25-6

450 pp., 154 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm 30.00

16 21 937 Fielding-Hall, Harold, BURMESE

PALACE TALES

Originally published in 1900 as Palace Tales the book is an attempt to rescue from complete oblivion one phase of life in the Mandalay Palace in the times of the Burmese Kings. The Burmese King and Queen were sent into exile in India by the British occupation force in 1886 and memories of the old days started to fade. These stories are all founded upon tales told to the author. They are not history, nor are they intended to apply to any one king or queen. They are illustrations only of the lighter side of life there, of the amusements and the trivialities of the Palace. They are the little sunny places in the record of a semi-civilized court whose more serious history consisted of plot and intrigue, violence and murder. But there was laughter in the palace as well as sorrow, sunshine as well as tears.

(Bangkok 1997) ISBN 974-8496-94-5

139 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 22.50

17 21 858 Gilhodes, A., THE KACHIN: RELIGION AND CUSTOMS

This book is a record of the myths and tales of the Kachin peoples of Burma amongst whom the author lived. He discusses his findings with the indigenous specialists in the Kachin religion, the Jaiwa, who are ritual bards or reciters of the myths and tales in question.

As a direct result of Edmund Leach’s work, Political Systems of Highland Burma, the Kachin people played a major role in the development of social anthropology. Leach made it clear that we can only comprehend the nature of culture and society in Southeast Asia if we understand that each such society is the outcome of processes of inter-group political and social relations, where the boundary of each such group is set by the existence and organizational character of its neighbors. He showed that Kachin society of the mountains of northernmost Burma had its principle structural limit in the neighboring Shan system of lowland principalities. The Shan are Tai speaking people. Kachin society was shaped by its attempt to live in the neighborhood of Shan society. Such a tribal society could not, for all sorts of reasons having to do with the nature of life in the mountains, readily adopt the Shan political order. When this was tried, either it failed or the Kachin community in question tended to become absorbed by the Shan. Indeed, the very dynamics of traditional Kachin society lie in its tendency to oscillate between a form of organization under powerful chiefs that comes close to the Shan ideal of ruling princes, and a form of organization that was forced to reject the claims of such dominance. Not surprisingly, this sort of cross-cultural awareness tends to constitute much of a people’s sense of their own identity and hence becomes embedded in their basic religious ideas, cosmology, mythology and way of life.

Gilhodes’s book serves as an essential foundation of empirical data for Leach’s now classical monograph, and is the only published example, in any detail, of the kind of cross-cultural awareness that characterizes the upland peoples of Southeast Asia. The documentation of this material is of importance if only because scholars of the region have come to rely so heavily upon Leach’s 1954 book that they have long since lost sight of the rich material lying behind the analytical argument, and of the fact that there is an earlier literature that documents it in considerable detail.

(Bangkok 1996; repr. from 1922)

ISBN 974-8496-51-1

253 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 18.50

18 21 243 Hallet, Holt S., A THOUSAND MILES ON AN ELEPHANT IN THE SHAN STATES

This text presents an excellent overview of the topography, economy, peoples, customs, legends and local histories of Northern Thailand in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Consequently, it is immensely valuable to anyone interested in the area and has long been recognized for its merit by scholars. The book, first published in 1890, resulted from Hallet’s thorough fact-finding mission through the region in 1876 when he was searching for the best route for a railway by which British goods could be transported from Burma to Thailand, and more importantly, to China. The information which he carefully compiled makes this book an important reference source even today.

(Bangkok 1989; repr. from 1890)

ISBN 974-8495-27-2

532 pp., illus., 8 maps, 150 x 210 mm 30.00

19 22 119 Halliday, Robert, THE MONS OF BURMA AND THAILAND. VOLUME 1. THE TALAINGS

This is a two-volume selection of his most important writings on the subject. Volume 1 is a reprint of his monograph, The Talaings, which was originally published in 1917 in Rangoon. Well over thirteen centuries ago the Mons established the earliest Buddhist civilization on the Southeast Asian mainland, and it was through them the Burmese and Northern Thais received not only their script, along with literary and technical texts, but also adopted their indigenous religious practices and administrative systems. Halliday’s assumptions about the important historical role played by the Mons, reflecting the views of C. O. Blagden, with whom he collaborated, have been vindicated in the 1960s following the discoveries of early archeological sites and epigraphic data in Thailand. Therefore, Halliday’s work is a unique source on Mon culture and village life at the beginning of the twentieth century. Halliday’s historical photographs, incor-porated in Volume 1, are complemented by photos by Christian Bauer, the editor, taken in Burma and Thailand, presented in Volume 2.

(Bangkok 2000; repr. from 1917)

ISBN 974-7534-20-7

236 pp., 12 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 14.50

20 22 120 Halliday, Robert, THE MONS OF BURMA AND THAILAND. VOLUME 2. SELECTED ARTICLES

Volume 2 features all of Halliday’s articles published in the Journal of the Burma Research Society as well as his two other monographs, A History of Kings (1923), and The Story of the Founding of Pegu (1923). This volume also has photographs by Christian Bauer, the editor of this volume of reprints.

(Bangkok 2000; repr. from 1923)

ISBN 974-7534-19-4

340 pp., 8 pp. color illus., 150 x 210 mm,

pbk. 17.50

21 21 813 Ivanoff, Jacques, MOKEN. SEA GYPSIES OF THE ANDAMAN SEA

The book contains accounts of the nomads who live in the Mergui Archipelago of southern Burma and adjacent Thai territories. This minority of the northern branch of the Austronesian peoples have a very distinctive and peculiar culture. Most of the year they live on their boats but do not fish. During the rainy season they live on land, grow some plants, but are not avid cultivators and make little use of their agricultural produce. They developed a strong cultural identity but are nevertheless adapting to a changing environ-ment. For outsiders, the functioning of their society is difficult to understand and still has its mysteries. The closing of Burma after 1948 prevented further research. These post-war chronicles, supplemented by a host of rare photographs, shed some light on this unique group deserving of a special place in the pantheon of ethnic minorities.

(Bangkok 1997) ISBN 974-8496-65-1

170 pp., illus. with 83 plates, 24 pp. in color,

150 x 210 mm, pbk. 27.50

22 22 075 Ivanoff, Jacques, THE MOKEN BOAT: SYMBOLIC TECHNOLOGY

This is the first comprehensive study of the boats of the sea-gypsies of the Andaman Sea from Surin Island in Southern Thailand to Ross Island in Burma. The traditional Moken boat has been a cause of wonder for scholars, English administrators, and sea captains. How could such a remote and "uncivilized" people have developed such impressive naval technology? The discrepancy between the level of culture and the high degree of technical skill in boat building is not surprising if we look deep inside the nomadic ideology of the Moken: their techniques cannot be understood without reference to their cultural and symbolic contexts. This study provides all the necessary technical tools and symbolic knowledge to understand how the sea-gypsies still survive today in their amazing boat, the kabang. This book also provides an English-French glossary of marine terms and techniques, a glossary of Moken marine technology, and a glossary identifying plants based on an extensive survey of the flora of the region where the Moken live.

(Bangkok 1999) ISBN 974-8434-90-7

180 pp., fully illus., partly in color, 210 x 290 mm, pbk. 25.00

23 21 481 Karow, Otto, BURMESE BUDDHIST SCULPTURE: THE JOHAN MÖGER COLLECTION

This book offers the reader an admirable survey and description of a sacred art that is still too little studied, the rich Burmese tradition. Of particular importance in this collection are the pieces forged in the Shan States depicting various events in the life of the Buddha, as well as the many pieces representing the Buddha in royal attire, here in designated the "Jambupati" type. Whether the artifacts show narrative scenes, single figures, votive stupas or house temples, there is in this collection the full range of craftsmanship, expressed in various "gradients of quality," and Burmese icono-graphic ideals.

(Bangkok 1991) ISBN 974-8495-52-3

164 pp., 132 pp. color illus., 200 x 300 mm 47.50

24 7 334 Keeton, C. L., KING THEBAW AND THE ECOLOGICAL RAPE OF BURMA: THE POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN BRITISH INDIA AND FRENCH INDO-CHINA IN BURMA 1878-1886

This pioneering work should be required reading for anyone who is concerned about the destruction of our environment, and who is interested in understanding how past human societies, in this case Upper Burma in the late 1800s, have struggled with the problem. This is also the best biographical study ever made of Burma’s colorful King Thebaw (1878-1885), and in particular of his domineering and beautiful wife, Queen Supayalat. The book places their lives against the background of the ecological and diplomatic occurences that convulsed the Burmese Kingdom of Mandalay during its last years of independence.

The effects of the race between French and British commercial interests, with the eager cooperation of the Burmese Government to deforest Upper Burma, are related in fascinating detail. This process of deforestation set off a number of ecological disturbances which culminated in the partially man-made "drought" of 1883-5. This in turn disrupted much of Upper Burma’s social and political life, thus making the country an ever more inviting area for further French expansion westwards from French Indochina. Ultimately, this "French Threat" resulted in the Third Burmese War in 1885, and in the eventual annexation of Upper Burma to Britain’s Indian Empire in 1886. Finally, the book develops several ecological concepts which might well be applicable to the study of man’s interaction with his environment in any period of history.

(Delhi 1974)

450 pp., 7 pp. illus., 1 folded map, 150 x

225 mm 38.00

25 5 241 King, Winston L., A THOUSAND LIVES AWAY: BUDDHISM IN CONTEMPORARY BURMA

The portrait presented here is essentially that of Burmese Buddhism "on the hoof," as it is practiced by the rank and file of lay Buddhists, mirroring the world as perceived through traditionalist Buddhist eyes. For the most part it is a strange world to Western perceptions—one almost from another planet, one "a thousand lives away" from it, one of karma, endless rebirths, nats and pagodas.

(Berkeley 1964, repr. from 1989)

238 pp., 140 x 215 mm, pbk. 17.50

26 21 626 Kin Oung, WHO KILLED AUNG SAN? (Second Expanded Edition)

This book provides a graphic reconstruction of a controversial episode in Burmese history: the murder of U Aung San and his six ministerial colleagues on 19 July 1947. The course of Burmese history could well have been very diffrent if Aung San had lived to become independent Burma’s first prime minister. Based on eye-witness accounts, this book sheds much new light on the events of this period. The facts of the killing itself seem relatively straightforward, and are documented in the records of the assassins’ trial, but there remain many unanswered questions: Who really stood to benefit from the death of Aung San? Was there a mastermind, or masterminds, other than U Saw (who was convicted of the murder) behind the plot? If so, who were these shadowy figures, and how were they able to escape? It is the author’s investigation of these issues that gives the book its particular value. Kin Oung is especially well qualified to write this account for he has family connections that provide a direct link with the events of the late 1940s. His late father, Major-General Tun Hla Oung of Burma’s Imperial Police, and his late father-in-law, Justice Thaung Sein, played vital roles in bringing to justice the assassins of Aung San. It was the reminiscences of his father-in-law, with their implication that events might not have been all they appeared to be, that triggered Kin Oung’s interest in this tragic episode of Burma’s history.

(Bangkok 1996) ISBN 974-9496-48-6

160 pp., 8 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm 22.50

27 22 113 Kiryu, Minoru (Ed.), INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFORMS IN MYANMAR: ASEAN AND JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES

This report incorporates papers and research reports prepared in the framework of the Symposium on Industrial Reform in Myanmar, sponsored by the Sasakawa Southeast Asia Cooperation Fund. Over a period of two years, researchers from Japan, Myanmar, and Thailand pursued three objectives, reflected in the results reported here:

To make a comprehensive examination of the problems that Myanmar’s enterprises face as the country makes its transition to a market-oriented economy.

To gain knowledge of current problems relative to Myanmar’s enterprises through conducting research and holding symposia for researchers and policymakers both in and outside Myanmar.

To prepare policy recommendations for submission to the Government of Myanmar based on the results of these processes, in an effort to aid in its task of reforming the nation’s industrial policies.

Thus, a wealth of hitherto unavailable information has been collected and is presented in this volume for the first time.

(Bangkok 1999) ISBN 974-7534-06-1

345 pp., illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 17.50

28 21 464 Lintner, Bertil, AUNG SAN SUU KYI AND BURMA’S UNFINISHED RENAISSANCE

A brief introduction to Aung San Suu Kyi’s role in Burma’s political scene in the late 1980’s. This edition was printed after she received the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.

(Bangkok 1991; 2nd ed.) ISBN 974-8495-61-2

32 pp., 4 pp. illus., 140 x 215 mm, pbk. 7.50

10 copies 45.00

29 22 107 MacDonald, Martin, KAWTHOOLEI DREAMS, MALARIA NIGHTS: BURMA’S CIVIL WAR

This daring book, the most accessible contemporary account of Burma’s civil war, unravels a complex story that encompasses more than a dozen armies, scores of ethnic groups, involves the opium warlords of the Golden Triangle, and the rise of the democracy movement inside Burma. For the last 50 years Burma has been torn apart by political and ethnic insurgencies, shut off from the outside world, and forgotten. Today the country is ruled, as it has been since 1962, by a brutal, corrupt, and incompetent military dictatorship. The author, a freelance journalist, made his first trip into insurgent Burma in 1989. Since then he has travelled extensively, both alone and with insurgent groups, including an overland trip in the company of Karen and Burmese student soldiers to the Andaman Sea, a clandestine boat trip down the Irrawaddy River, a jungle trek in search of rhinos, and an attempt to photograph Burmese slave-labor camps. This fast-paced and personal narrative captures both the romance and harsh reality of an ill-fated revolution. The plight of the Karen, an ethnic group fighting for a homeland in the malaria-stricken mountains of southeastern Burma, is especially poignant. The old Karen veterans, who served under the British during World War II and began the present rebellion in 1949, together with two subsequent generations, are still in the jungle, but now forced into refugee camps and ever-shrinking parcels of Karen-held territory along the Thai-Burma border.

(Bangkok 1999) ISBN 974-8434-61-3

234 pp., 2 maps, 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 14.50

30 21 934 Marshall, Harry Ignatius, THE KAREN PEOPLE OF BURMA: A STUDY IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY

A classical anthropological monograph written at a time when it was expected that there should be at least one book on each "tribe", and for sometime this was considered the one book on the Karen. It is full of data and, ironically, this book is still the most recent general description of basically all aspects of Karen culture in Burma. Since it was written 75 years ago there are evidently many current questions which the book cannot answer. But it is still a significant ethnographic study which has been widely read and widely quoted.

(Bangkok 1997; repr. from 1922)

350 pp., 140 x 210 mm, pbk. 27.50

31 754 Maung Htin Aung, FOLK ELEMENTS IN BURMESE BUDDHISM

A work on the integrating power of Burmese Buddhism. When Theravada Buddhism became the national religion in the 11th century there already existed a number of primitive religious cults, the most important and most popular of which were the worship of Nat spirits, astrology, and alchemy. In addition there also existed Mahayana Buddhism and Tantric or magical Buddhism. All the different cults were given an artifical unity by the fact that they were all under the patronage of the Ari monks. These Ari monks had some acquaintance with the Buddhist scriptures, gloried in the name of Buddha, and wore dark brown robes and conical hats. But they also presided over the Nat spirit festival at which hundreds of animals were sacrificed. The nine chapters of this book deal with: (1) folk elements in Burmese Buddhism; (2) the nine Gods; (3) the feast of the New Year; (4) the cult of alchemy; (5) the cult of the magus; (6) the Lord of the Great mountain; (7) the thirty-seven Lords; (8) initiation ceremonies; and (9) the Ari monks and the introduction of Buddhism.

(Rangoon 1959)

153 pp., 135 x 210 mm 9.50

32 22 079 Moilanen, Irene & Sergey Ozhegov, MIRRORED IN WOOD: BURMESE ART AND ARCHITECTURE

This overview presents the traditional art of wood carving and use of wood in building in Burma from a historical perspective. In the early Burmese context the wood carvers’ art was honed for religious purposes: to create sculptures to venerate the Buddha. These and other woodcarving motifs of decorative and legendary nature evolved but maintained continuity to the present time despite loss in the 1300-1700 era due to disruptive events in the country. The numerous illustrations of this art also show the colonial influences and recent adaptations to the tourist souvenir market, a potential threat to maintaining traditional wood-carving skills. These are described in detail, including materials and techniques, accompanied with illustra-tions. The use of wood in building also has its traditions in form and beliefs and a basis in functional use and mobility: a basic room is replicated and adapted in the specific contexts of dwelling, monastery, and palace. All these designs are illustrated with floor plans and photographs. Again, in architecture modern design requirements, materials, urbanization and utility challenge the preservation of traditional methods and forms, many of which may well be more suited for local use.

(Bangkok 1999) ISBN 974-7534-00-2

186 pp., 76 pp. illus., partly in color, 210 x 290 mm, pbk. 29.50

33 21 067 O’Connor, V. C. Scott, MANDALAY AND OTHER CITIES OF THE PAST IN BURMA

First published in 1907, this book is still an important source of information for all who are curious about this fascinating country which has only recently begun the process of change. V. C. Scott O’Connor served in Burma at the turn of the century as a British colonial officer. His extensive travels took him to numerous cities, all of which had had a great influence on Burmese history, art and culture. From his experiences, the author recreates Burmese history through that of important early cities. Mandalay, for which he had a special affection, Sagaing, Ava, Amarapura, Pagan, Pegu, Prome, Thare-kettaya (Sri-kshetra), Mergui, Tagoung, and the monastery complex at Po-u-daung. The work includes 243 illustrations, mostly photos, reproductions of paintings by the traditionalist Burmese painter, Saya Chone, and maps and diagrams.

(Bangkok 1996; repr. from 1907)

ISBN 974-8495-17-5

470 pp., fully illus., 8 pp. in color, 4 folded maps+plans, 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 37.50

34 22 015 P. B., E. M., A YEAR ON THE IRRAWADDY

This account was written by the wife of an oil-boat captain plying the trade on the Irrawaddy River in Burma. It is the unassuming tale of the hard lives of sailors and shoremen alike. The turn of the century, when this wife took the unusual step of following her husband on board for most of her time in Burma, saw many changes in the daily life on the river: not least those caused by a small boom in trading and in the exploitation of primary resources by British companies. The many anecdotes in this account make for a colorful and insightful picture of the life of those who were living outside the colonial circles and high officialdom that are usually the subjects of expatriates’ reports of a tour of duty in the colony. Today’s travellers to Burma may find this book is interesting and useful comparative material and will, no doubt, notice how little has changed in the lives of the common people with the passing of regimes and doctrines.

(Bangkok 1998, repr. from 1911)

ISBN 974-8434-26-5

150 pp., 8 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 16.50

35 21 469 Pichard, Pierre, THE PENTAGONAL MONUMENTS OF PAGAN

These monuments are exceptional in the ancient architecture of Southeast Asia and are indeed rare in the whole history of architecture. This original study by Pierre Richard, architect and member of the École française d’Extrême Orient, presents 17 monuments, discussing the doctrinal, historical, and architectural features of these unique achievements of Burmese genius.

(Bangkok 1991) ISBN 974-8495-49-3

157 pp., fully illus., 210 x 295 mm 35.00

36 760 Ray, Nihar-Rangan, SANSKRIT BUDDHISM IN BURMA

The materials used in preparing this monograph are mostly archeological, but also literary sources as far as they are substantiated by archeological evidence so as to cover all relevant inscriptions, sculptures, paintings and monuments known from Burma up to the present. Apart from new materials that are now made known, there will be found many instances where new interpretations of old materials have been proposed. Thus, this text reveals the prevalence of the Sarvastivada in Old Prome, the definite existence of Mahayanist and Tantric texts in the monastic libraries of Upper Burma and of hitherto unrecognized representations of gods and goddesses belonging to the Mahayana and its allied pantheons. The text also establishes that the Samanakuttakas are identical with the Aris, both branded heterodox sects; it indicates the time when and place whence the Mahayana and its allied cults penetrated Burma and the fact of their existence for a long time even after the glorious reformation of Anawrahta in 1057-1058 AD. There are sufficient indications of the part played by the followers of these cults, whose number must have been considerable at one time, in the religious life of Upper Burma. Some of the identifications of gods and goddesses may be considered doubtful (in a number of instances the identification marks and attributes are either absent or indistinct), but the major conclusions based on them and on other material, equally important, will endure. The six chapters deal with:

1. Sarvastivada in Ancient Prome

2. Sanskrit Inscriptions: Sanskrit Buddhist Texts

3. Gods and Goddesses of Northern Buddhism

4. The Ari sect and the Samanakuttakas

5. Testimony of Buddhist Monks

6. When and whence did Sanskrit Buddhism penetrate Burma?

(Rangoon 1970s; repr. from 1936)

118 pp., 155 x 240 mm 16.50

37 22 081 Schendel, Willem van, Wolfgang Mey & Aditya Kumar Dewan, THE CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS: LIVING IN A BORDERLAND

This work examines the borderland between Burma, India and Bangladesh, inhabited by twelve distinct ethnic groups with strong cultural and linguistic links with Southeast Asia. The three specialist authors of this unique book have assembled more than 400 mostly unpublished photographs, many in color, from over 50 private collections. The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland introduces the reader to the remarkable cultural variety and modern transfor-mations of this virtually unknown region bridging Southeast Asia and South Asia. At the same time it explores how, from the 1860s to the late twentieth century, photographers have portrayed the Chittagong Hill Tracts and their inhabitants. These photographers were both outsiders (travellers, officials, missionaries, anthropologists, development workers) and local people capturing their own world as they saw it. The 20 carefully documented chapters include: Creating a Colonial Aristocracy, The Public Display of Power, Images of Nature and Destruction, Religions of the Hills, Bodies and Costumes, Developing the Hills, and Lifestyles. The Chittagong Hill Tracts is the first comprehensive work on this complex region of Asia.

(Bangkok 2000) ISBN 974-8434-98-2

336 pp., 144 pp. illus., partly in color, 210 x

290 mm, pbk. 50.00

38 21 816 Stibbe, Philip G., RETURN VIA RANGOON: A YOUNG CHINDIT SURVIVES THE JUNGLE AND JAPANESE CAPTIVITY

The story of the Chindits, and how Wingate was able to forge out of this heterogeneous collection of men a fighting force which became and has remained one of the legends of the Second World War. Stibbe vividly describes the training of this ill-assorted bunch for the first Chindit expeidtion and the way in which Wingate prepared them for the ordeals ahead. Alas, as with so many of the best-laid plans, things went awry and Stibbe ended up a prisoner of the Japanese, incarcerated in a gaol in Rangoon. How he managed to survive the appalling sadism of his captors in the following years is even more extraordinary. His account of his time in prison vividly conveys the lowest depths of man’s inhumanity to fellow man, and the will of man to survive under the gravest of circumstances.

(London, Bangkok 1995) ISBN 974-8496-47-3

231 pp., 8 pp. illus., 1 pp. map, 155 x 235 mm,

pbk. 25.00

39 4 319 Taylor, Robert H., THE STATE OF BURMA

Taylor’s book is an attempt to explain, in comparative historical perspective, the background to Burma’s political development since 1962 when the military took power and began the process of converting the country into a one-party socialist state. It is the first book on the nature of Burma’s modern politics written by a foreign social scientist, who has done research in the country since 1962. Among many questions the author seeks to answer are the following: Why has the state in Burma developed in the comparatively unorthodox manner that it has? What have been the effects of the state’s autarchic policies on the country’s economy and foreign relations? Who has benefited and who has lost in the redistribution of power and influence that has taken place during the twentieth century? Given the turbulent history of Burma between 1920 and 1962, why has the country remained outwardly so politically stable since 1962? What is the relationship between the state and the peasantry and other social classes? How does ideology affect the nature of politics? The work is based on the assumption that meaningful answers to these questions can only be given in the context of the state’s development from the "early modern" era to the present. It reveals a coherent political pattern not obvious except from the perspective of an analysis of the nature of the state. As the leading figures in the states have changed, from Burmese kings to British civil servants to indigenous politicans and army officers, so have the ideas that have shaped the relationship of the state with the institutions of civil society. The book also contributes to the debate over the nature of the state and the alternative strategies for state perpetuation.

(London 1987)

395 pp., 145 x 225 mm 59.50

40 5 206 Toke Gale, BURMESE TIMBER ELEPHANT

This book deals with very intimate accounts of the behavior of these animals, their sexual life, their "loves and frequent lapses from virtue, their infidelities, hatreds and jealousies." It is also interlaced with superstitious practices which a few simple, hard working jungle folk observe in dealing with capturing and training wild elephants. It is the first time this topic has been written about at length and the book makes very interesting and delighful reading. The story of the only white elephant of Burma is most fascinating.

(Rangoon, no date; printed in Singapore)

162 pp., with text illus., 145 x 210 mm 17.50

41 21 811 U Thaung, A JOURNALIST, A GENERAL AND AN ARMY IN BURMA

The author tells the chilling story of a people under military rule. As a Burmese journalist, the author worked under martial law and was jailed by the cunning and ruthless General Ne Win, Burma’s dictator. This is the chronicle of the stupidity and crimes of the Burmese Army and, from an insider’s viewpoint, the misery and cruelties endured by 43 million enslaved Burmese people.

(Bangkok 1995) ISBN 974-8496-44-9

150 pp., 130 x 200 mm, pbk. 14.50

42 21 935 White, Walter Grainge, THE SEA GYPSIES OF MALAYA: AN ACCOUNT OF THE NOMADIC MAWKEN PEOPLE OF THE MERGUI ARCHIPELAGO, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR WAYS OF LIVING, CUSTOMS, HABITS, BOATS, OCCUPATIONS

This book is considered a classic amongst the sparse Moken ethnographic literature. The author was a man with an inquiring mind, full of curiosity, who wished to go beyond the limits of his missionary tasks and relate the story of his personal and research experiences among the sea nomds. The book’s most important merit was to reveal the life of the Moken at the beginning of the century. It does this in a very vivid manner. Published in 1922 it sums up the author’s fieldwork observations dating from 1911. He writes about the administrative and political structure of Tenasserim (he was responsible for the population census of the Moken), which was the first part of Burma to be surrendered to the British after the Anglo-Burmese war of 1824-1826. His book enables us, on the one hand, to become aware of the nature, fauna and flora of this region, and on the other, the human intrigues involving the English, Indians, Karen, Mons, Malays, Burmese and, of course, the Moken. We become vividly aware, though his writings, of contemporary western arrogance and the developing phenomenon of colonial administration and the ways in which it exploited indigenous wealth. The missionaries, administration, cartographers, geo-graphers and the military were able, long before the ethnologists, to engage in all kinds of work which attracts the interest of present investigators: reports, mapping, census, dictionaries. These are precious instruments for observers of small, non-literate societies.

(Bangkok 1997; repr. from 1922)

ISBN 974-8496-92-9

350 pp., 15 pp. illus., 1 folded map, 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 27.50

43 22 129 Anderson, Liz, RED LIGHTS AND GREEN LIZARDS: A CAMBODIAN ADVENTURE

Cambodia: land of the White Crocodile where rivers run backwards and human kings are half divine. two English doctors plunge up to their necks into the maelstrom that is Phnom Penh in the early 1990s. Tim tackles the hazards of childbirth; Liz takes a giant leap from the quiet Thameside practice to a brothel beside the Mekong River. Here where children, sold for sex, work off their ransom, she plumbs unexpected depths of poignancy and squalor. Simple explanations disentangle many of Cambodia’s recent troubles. The drama, pain and dawning hope of this extraordinary country are brought sharply into focus through the couple’s moving personal story.

312 pp., 130 x 195 mm, pbk. 15.50

44 21 949 Bekaert, Jacques, CAMBODIAN DIARY. VOL. 1. TALES OF A DIVIDED NATION, 1983-1986

The diaries cover the turbulent and dramatic recent history of Cambodia (1983-1986). Through the format of a regular diary we see a country emerging from the disaster of the Khmer Rouge era, only to find itself embroiled in a protracted war. This first volume discusses the ups and downs of the resistance, the secretive life of the communist party, the suffering of the people, the emergence of new leaders, like Prince Ranariddh and Hun Sen, and the continuous efforts of Prince Sihanouk to bring peace to his troubled land. The diary moves, week after week, from the Thai-Cambodian border to Hanoi, Beijing, Bangkok, Paris or Washington and of course to Phnom Penh and the Cambodian countryside. From the Khmer Rouge to born-again capitalists, from low intensity conflict to international intrigues, here is a first hand history of contemporary Cambodia.

(Bangkok 1997) ISBN 974-8496-95-3

422 pp., 42 pp. illus., 12 pp. in color, 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 30.00

45 22 011 Bekaert, Jacques, CAMBODIAN DIARY. Vol. 2. A LONG ROAD TO PEACE, 1987-1993

Volume 2 describes how first the People’s Republic of Kampuchea of Heng Samrin appears and disappears and, then, how Hun Sen’s State of Cambodia emerges while abandoning communism. And as a constant feature throughout, there are the people, main actors and front line victims of the drama.

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-16-8

512 pp., 56 pp. illus., 16 pp. in color, 150 x 210 mm,
pbk. 37.50

46 22 078 Briggs, Lawrence Palmer, THE ANCIENT KHMER EMPIRE

This is a source book of early Khmer civilization, covering its art and architecture during the Funan (first century to c. 550), and Chenla (c. 550-802) periods, culminating with the Angkor period (802-1432) when the disastrous sacking of the capital by the Siamese in 1431 effectively brought this culture to a close. This source book is illustrated with numerous photographs, maps, and floor plans as well as dynastic genealogies of this great culture. In this reprint some illustrations from the Garnier Mission and Le Monde Illustré have been added. The back cover shows a gate of the old city, Angkor Thom (from Glimpses of the East, N.Y.K. Official Guide 1929-1930).

(Bangkok 1999; repr. from 1951, 1974)

ISBN 974-8434-93-1

307 pp., fully illus., 12 pp. in color, pbk. 29.50

47 6 782 Davis, Paul & Nic Dunlop, WAR OF THE MINES—CAMBODIA, LANDMINES AND THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF A NATION

War of the Mines is the first illustrated study of the impact of landmine warfare on communities in Cambodia. Davies and Dunlop have meticulously documented the history of landmine warfare in a country where, it is estimated, there are more landmines than people. Through hard-hitting, yet unsensational photographs and the personal accounts of landmine victims, aid workers, doctors and military personnel, this book offers a powerful description of the horrors of landmine warfare and a compelling argument for a global ban on the use of such devastating war weapons.

(London 1994)

150 pp., fully illus., 195 x 275 mm, pbk. 25.00

48 21 794 Jennar, Raoul, THE CAMBODIAN CONSTITUTIONS (1953-1993)

This book examines the six constitutions Cambodia has had since its independence in 1953. Each reflects the political objectives of the regime in power, but each also upholds the permanent truths of Cambodian society: none escapes this double nature. What are the Cambodian institutions today? What are the powers of the King? How is the succession to the throne ensured in an elective monarchy? Are human rights protected in a country where the worst of crimes against humanity have been committed? How independent is the judiciary? The new Constitution, promulgated on 24 September 1993, answers these questions. This collection, where each of the fundamental laws is placed in its historical perspective, includes the founding texts of the first independent Cambodian Kingdom, the Khmer Republic of Field Marshal Lon Nol, Democratic Kampuchea of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, Heng Samrin’s People’s Republic of Kampuchea, and Hun Sen’s State of Cambodia.

(Bangkok 1995) ISBN 974-8496-36-8

150 pp., 130 x 200 mm, pbk. 14.50

49 22 023 Jennar, Raoul M., CAMBODIAN CHRONICLES, 1989-1996. VOL. 1. BUNGLING A PEACE PLAN 1989-1991.

This first volume brings together all the reports (both published and unpublished) written by Raoul Marc Jennar on Cambodia’s political, economic, military and diplomatic situation from the beginning of the peace talks until the signing of the Paris Agreement in 1991. It was these reports that contained the first announcements of various major developments affecting the route towards peace. These included, in 1990, the ending of Soviet Bloc aid to the Phnom Penh regime; the conflict in the same year between the two main wings of the Communist party in power and the end to the opening up of the political spectrum; the economic colonization of Cambodia by unscrupulous Thai businessmen; and the continuation, after the signing of the Paris Agreement in 1991, of the collaboration beween some elements of the Thai military and industrial establishment and the Khmer Rouge. These reports were also the first to denounce the shortcomings, the contradictions and the weaknesses of the Agreements that were being negotiated.

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-43-5

296 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 25.00

50 21 971 Mehta, Harish C., CAMBODIA

SILENCED—THE PRESS UNDER SIX REGIMES

The first book on the history of the Khmer press and its struggle for existence under six regimes since the 1930s. The press survived colonial rule, a major coup, genocide, civil war, and Vietnamese occupation. The press was censored and shut down, Khmer journalists were threatened, attacked, and murdered, and several foreign correspondents were captured and killed while covering the civil war. The French denied newspapers licenses to publish, and an equally docile press existed under Sihanouk’s rule. Sihanouk wrote arcane and elegant editorials in his journals to rebut criticism in the foreign press about his style of governance. The Lon Nol regime subjected the press to heavy-handed censorship and the Khmer Rouge, on seizing power, shut it down ahead of the genocide. The Heng Samrin regime’s journals were never allowed to stray from the official line. Newsmen were still being attacked and murdered after the royal government came to power in 1993, and journalism remained a dangerous profession. (Bangkok 1997) ISBN 974-8434-09-5

343 pp., 18 pp. illus. 6 pp. in color, 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 27.50

51 22 027 San Antonio, Gabriel Quiroga de,

A BRIEF AND TRUTHFUL RELATION OF EVENTS IN THE KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA

This is one of the earliest accounts of Cambodia and other destination countries of early missionaries in the region. More specifically it is the account with which Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio, a Dominican missionary, attempted to draw the King of Spain into conquering the country in 1604. The book was introduced by the eminent French scholar, Antoine Cabaton and is translated into English, from the French edition of 1914, for the first time. It deals with the internal political turmoil in Cambodia and with attempts of the Portuguese, Spanish and Siamese to take advantage of the situation. Within the context of the geopolitics of the time, the author also describes other countries in which such trade rivalry was in progress and their rulers, e.g., Siam, the Moluccas, the Kingdoms of Champa and Cochinchina and the Philippines. Father Gabriel de San Antonio explicitly places his peregrinations around Asia in the context of the foundation of missionary and trading posts. This book is a must for scholars of Cambodia and for all those who want to better comprehend the troubled history of this country.

(Bangkok 1998; first English translation from 1604) ISBN 974-8434-35-4

220 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 17.50

52 22 019 Vann Nath, A CAMBODIAN PRISON PORTRAIT. ONE YEAR IN THE KHMER ROUGE’S S-21

The harrowing tale of a survivor of a secret prison known as Tuol Sleng or S-21, where more than 14,000 men, women and children were tortured and executed during the Khmer Rouge regime. The author is one of only a handful of people who can describe life in the prison. Upon entering S-21 in 1977, Vann Nath was beaten and tortured and almost starved to death. But because of his prior training as an artist, he was not killed: instead he was put to work painting portraits of Pol Pot, or "Brother Number One," leader of the Khmer Rouge’s cruel experiment in radical Maoism. When Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia and entered the capital city in January 1979, toppling the Khmer Rouge government, Vann Nath escaped. By that point more than one million people throughout Cambodia had died from executions, starvation, forced labor, or disease as a result of the Khmer Rouge’s attempt to force an agrarian revolution. When a Museum of Genocide was created on the grounds of the former prison at the end of 1979, Vann Nath went back to Tuol Sleng, working there for several years. He returned to his former craft, painting scenes of prison life so that visitors could learn of the crimes of the Khmer Rouge. His paintings hang in the museum today. Vann Nath’s words and paintings, published here, stand as a testimony to the horrors of Pol Pot’s Cambodia.

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-48-6

136 pp., 8 pp. color illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.

16.50

53 7 563 Zepp, Ray, THE CAMBODIA LESS TRAVELED

An introductory guide to that "Other Cambodia". While trying to dispel the ugly images painted of Cambodia by the overseas press, it attempts to paint a true picture of the wonderful, as well as the not-so-wonderful, provinces of Cambodia, of the places considered safe for tourists to visit as well as the risks of traveling to certain zones. The author hopes to share with visitors and residents his joy in experiencing the sleepy backwaters of this beautiful country, and to demonstrate that travel in much of Cambodia is quite easy and safe for travelers of all budgets. It gives details to Phnom Penh residents of daytrips or weekend outings, and encourages tourists to spend an extra day or week in places they never dreamed existed!

(Phnom Penh 1996)

182 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 22.00

54 21 714 Zhou Mei, RADIO UNTAC OF CAMBODIA: WINNING EARS, HEARTS AND MINDS

This book offers a fascinating snapshot of Cambodia on the threshold of a new beginning. The United Nations’ decision to venture into broadcasting was a groundbreaking move. Radio UNTAC became a sensation and a household name in Cambodia. The contribution of Radio UNTAC to the stupendous voter turn-out in the election cannot be quantified. It is irrefutable that radio UNTAC played a pivotal role in convincing the electorate: "Your vote is secret." For planners of future missions, there are invaluable lessons to be learned from the experience of Radio UNTAC as a peacekeeping tool. For the general reader, this book offers an alternative to the microphone account of "mission" work. In the process, it records a chronicle of a country in transition as Cambodians defied the bullets and reached for peace via the ballots.

(Bangkok 1994) ISBN 974-8496-17-1

153 pp., 24 pp. illus. in color, 145 x 210 mm,

pbk. 14.50

55 7 568 Carrere, Ricardo & Larry Lohmann, PULPING THE SOUTH. INDUSTRIAL TREE PLANTATIONS AND THE WORLD PAPER ECONOMY

Demand for paper is soaring. In its search for cheap wood to supply raw material, today’s pulp and paper industry is throwing its net ever wider across the world. One of the more disturbing results is the spread of fast-growing pulpwood plantations in the forests, pastures and farmlands of the South. Contesting the industry-propagated notion that all tree-planting must be benign, this path-breaking book shows how the new plantations are contributing to improverishment of people; degradation of soil, water and biodiversity; and rural strife in countries as diverse as Chile, South Africa and Indonesia. This book’s insights into the history, causes and workings of globalization in one of the world’s leading industries, and alternative papermaking will be of interest to activists, environmentalists, economists, geographers and development specialists alike.

(London 1996)

288 pp., 135 x 215 mm, pbk. 25.00

56 7 809 Fano, Alix, LETHAL LAWS. ANIMAL TESTING, HUMAN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

For the past 150 years, chemicals have been tested on animals for the alleged purpose of protecting the public from their dangerous effects. Lethal Laws reveals that using animals as human surrogates is not only unethical, it is bad science. Alix Fano provides a meticulous analysis of the technical and scientific problems that have plagued animal tests for decades, but which have not been forcefully challenged until now. She shows how animal testing has been used as an alibi to allow the continued use of thousands of toxic chemicals. In a field dominated by male voices, this is a pioneering work by a woman that effectively demonstrates the causal link between animal testing and environmental degradation, and the subsequent deterioration of human health.

(London 1997)

256 pp., 135 x 215 mm, pbk. 18.00

57 8 198 Foreman, Martin (Ed.), AIDS AND MEN. TAKING RISK OR RESPONSIBILITY?

The global AIDS epidemic is driven by men. Men have more opportunity to contract and transmit HIV; men usually determine the circumstances of intercourse, and men often refuse to protect themselves and their partners. The first section of this book examines the relationship between men’s actions and AIDS worldwide, the impact of those actions on men and women and initiatives designed to help men protect themselves and their partners. The second section illustrates many different aspects of the relationship—from machismo in Mexico to drug injection in Russia, from men in prison in Brazil to men living with HIV in Thailand, from men as fathers in the Ivory Coast to men who have sex with men in Kenya. Men undoubtedly take risks in relation to HIV. Whether or not they should also take responsibility for transmission of the virus, and how they can do so, are questions that cannot be easily resolved. This book offers some insights.

(London & New York 1999)

250 pp., 125 x 200 mm, pbk. 23.00

58 8 195 Gordon, David & Paul Spicker (Eds), THE INTERNATIONAL GLOSSARY ON POVERTY

This unique international glossary provides an authoritative guide to some two hundred technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. Each entry contains definitions and explanations, followed by a select reading list of relevant journal articles and books. The glossary has been compiled by scholars in a number of countries and international agencies with the aim of sensitizing those working in various disciplines as well as policy makers to the complexity of the issues relating to poverty. A special effort has been made to include non-Western approaches and concepts with a view to facilitating comparative poverty studies. An introduction by Robert Pinker of the London school of Economics examines the current state of poverty research.

(London & New York 1999)

174 pp., 135 x 215 mm, pbk. 12.50

59 7 976 Jomo, K. S. (Ed.), TIGERS IN TROUBLE. FINANCIAL GOVERNANCE, LIBERALISATION AND CRISES IN EAST ASIA

This important book provides a cogent critique of the nature of Southeast Asian capitalism. It argues that the crises are due not to excessive regulation, but to too much financial liberalization and a consequent undermining of monetary and fiscal governance. While recognizing some macroeconomic problems and abuses of state intervention in the region, the book also highlights the nature and implications of IMF and domestic policy responses which exacerbated the crises. It shows how the herd behavior of stock markets and injudicious official responses transformed an inevitable correction of overvalued currencies into wholesale collapse. The danger now is that the policies which built the success of Japan and the first wave of newly industrializing economies will no longer be available to the rest of the region. The analysis contained in this book raises profound questions which resonate way beyond the Asian region itself. They relate to the appropriate role of the state, the policies of the IMF and the viability of the deregulated free market capitalist model which these and other Third World countries have been encouraged to pursue.

(London & Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-59-1

272 pp., 150 x 215 mm, pbk. 13.50

60 7 810 Kaufman, Michael & Harold Dilla Alfonso (Eds), COMMUNITY POWER & GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY. THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL LIFE

The authors of the present book, in refreshing contrast to the tendency to skate over the internal divisions and stratification that characterise all communities, ask the hard questions. Of course, it is exciting if community participation can lead to social and personal empowerment, economic development and socio-political transformation. But what of the obstacles: the power of central bureaucracies, the lack of local skills and organizational experience, the impact of national and transnational structures, and social divisions? The scholars from Central America who have worked together for many years to research these and related questions in their own countries have produced a path-breaking book. Not only does the reader learn an immense amount about the strengths and weaknesses, the limits as well as potential, of community initiatives in the South, but the new social movements approach is skilfully married with resource mobilization theory to develop a more nuanced and inclusive theoretical paradigm.

(London 1997)

240 pp., 135 x 215 mm, pbk. 25.00

61 7 872 Martin, Hans-Peter & Harald Schumann, THE GLOBAL TRAP. GLOBALIZATION AND THE ASSAULT ON PROSPERITY AND DEMOCRACY

This remarkable book explores the spread of globalization and the likely consequences for jobs and democracy. The book opens a private seminar attended by 500 chief executives of major corporations, leading politicians and intellectuals in San Francisco. The conclusions were devastating. The biggest manu-facturers, while shifting production away from the industrial countries, foresee a technological future in which only a fifth of the world current workforce will be needed. Millions will be unemployed and a growing gulf between the low paid and the well off will be the consequences. But, Martin and Schumann argue, we do not have to be mere cogs in a brutal global dynamic. Democratic power and economic prosperity do not have to give way to unstoppable technological and economic progress. The primacy of politics over the economy and the care of the state must, and can, be reasserted. A left wing view, trying to protect union power and privileged classes in some developed countries, and to prevent the shift to low labour cost countries, is the main line of the book.

(London 1997)

280 pp., 135 x 215 mm, pbk. 22.00

62 8 196 Matsui, Yayori, WOMEN IN THE NEW ASIA

This book charts the effects of the economic boom on women across Asia by one of Japan’s leading journalists and demonstrates how Asian women are coping with rapid economic change, which is often accompanied by the widespread infringement of human rights. The author looks at the lives of women in Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, China, Nepal, and Korea, exploring the impact of globaliz-ation, sexual violence, and development projects. She also describes women’s co-ops, democratization movements, and unionization and finds women across Asia resisting the dictatorship of development, the feminization of poverty, and patriarchal values.

(London & New York 1999)

204 pp., 135 x 215 mm 17.50

63 7 569 McCully, Patrick, SILENCED RIVERS. THE ECOLOGY AND POLITICS OF LARGE DAMS

Dams have been associated with natural disasters and broken economic and development dreams. Yet the major donor agencies continue to rely on their alleged potential to harness energy and water resources. The author, a former co-editor of The Ecologist, has done an admirable job in bringing together enormously instructive information from a scientific, ecological, social and economic perspective.

(London 1996)

366 pp., 135 x 215 mm, pbk. 30.00

64 8 298 MacEwan, Arthur, NEO-LIBERALISM OR DEMOCRACY? ECONOMIC STRATEGY, MARKETS, AND ALTERNATIVES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Is it true that there is no alternative to the neo-liberal ideology of free trade, deregulation of markets, and government abandonment of social programmes? Must we accept, in the name of globalization, the relentless pressure to reduce wages and cut social spending? Can poor countries pursue no other route to development but opening their economies to global forces? The author sets out to explore these questions. In doing so, he subjects central tenets of modern economics to trenchant criticism. He argues that current policies are delivering neither sustained economic growth nor many of the other fundamentals of people’s wellbeing. He also argues that it is possible to construct a democratic economic strategy that produces growth and equity, while protecting the environment and securing local communities.

(London 1999)

267 pp., 135 x 225 mm, pbk. 19.50

65 8 055 Shutt, Harry, THE TROUBLE WITH CAPITALISM. AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC FAILURE

Recent instability in financial markets has dramatically shaken confidence in the global economic order. Is the current variant of "free market" capitalism really sustainable? This remarkable book—completed before the outbreak of financial turmoil in Asia—anticipates such a development and explains the underlying worldwide economic fragility it has revealed. Its disturbing findings are that the crisis stems from certain fundamental economic tendencies:

1. The growing redundancy of both labor and capital resulting from a combination of changing technologies and chronic slow growth since the 1970s;

2. The desperate struggle of organized capital to prevent its redundancy from being reflected in a fall in the price of financial assets (i.e. a market crash comparable to that of the 1930s)—by resorting to various artifical methods of sustaining market values.

3. The consequent distortion of official policy (in areas like corporate subsidies, taxation, pensions and privatization) in order to help maintain the value of capital.

This book exposes the sham of the new laissez-faire prospectus. In fact, state power and resources are increasingly being used to prop up capital while pretending that the aim is to roll back the frontiers of the state. The political impact of these tendencies, including the growing perversion of democratic processes, is also examined. The implication of the author’s startling conclusion—that the maximization of profit must cease to be the main basis for allocating resources—are profound.

(London & Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-64-8

238 pp., 135 x 215 mm, pbk. 16.50

66 8 197 Singh, Kavaljit, THE GLOBALIS-ATION OF FINANCE

Globalization of finance has now surpassed the globalization of production and taken on a life of its own. No longer associated with flows of real resources, international trade or productive investment, but merely attracted by short-term speculative gains, these volatile financial flows make it difficult for governments to pursue independent economic policies that are inconsistent with the interests of global finance capital. This book argues that the global economy itself has become highly vulnerable. What is now needed are effective regulatory mechanisms, backed up by citizen action, to exercise social control over global finance capital. Here at last is a citizen’s guide to what is happening in the rapidly changing virtual reality of big money: who the players are (Fidelity Investments, Mercury Asset Management and the other huge mutual fund managers), and the complex world of financial derivatives they trade in. Above all, what have these mega flows of hot money actually done to countries on the receiving end? Mexico yesterday, then Southeast Asia and South Korea, now Russia. Which countries tomorrow?

(London & New York 1999)

203 pp., 140 x 215 mm, pbk. 23.00

67 7 848 Visvanathan, Nalini et al. (Eds), THE WOMEN, GENDER & DEVELOPMENT READER

Third World women were long the undervalued and ignored actors in the development process but are now recognized by scholars, practitioners and policy makers alike as playing a critical role. As the first compre-hensive reader for undergraduates and development practitioners, this book presents the best of the now vast body of literature that has grown up alongside this acknowledgement. The book has a guide for further reading with each chapter.

(London 1997)

410 pp., 155 x 235 mm, pbk. 16.50

68 5 134 Fujiwara, Hiroshi, KHMER CERAMICS FROM THE KAMRATAN COLLECTION

The Kamratan Collection is one of the very few private collections of Khmer wares in Asia, and is noteworthy both in terms of quality and quantity. More than 130 pieces are illustrated in this book, which is derived from the catalog published by the Toyama Museum of Fine Art where the collection was exhibited in 1988. The book includes an introduction by Dawn F. Rooney, an art historian and author of Khmer Ceramics, in which the types, technology, characteristics, and shapes of Khmer wares are examined and exemplified by reference to the collection.

(Bangkok, Singapore 1990) ISBN 974-8495-39-6

128 pp., 147 col. illus., 29 b & w illus., 2 maps,

190 x 250 mm 27.00

69 4 841 Guy, John, CERAMIC TRADITIONS OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA

This text provides an introduction to the glazed ceramic traditions of Southeast Asia. The ceramic wares of Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam are discussed, including the evolution of forms and glazes and related kiln technology. The relationship of ceramic forms to indigenous metal vessels and architectural sculpture is also examined.

(Singapore 1989)

96 pp., 25 col. illus., 50 b & w illus., 190 x

250 mm 27.00

70 3 782 Labbé, Armand J., BAN CHIANG: ART AND PREHISTORY OF NORTHEAST THAILAND

An exhibition catalog showing many objects not depicted in other books. This book on the early bronze age culture in mainland Southeast Asia is presently the only available work of its kind. Over half is devoted to bronze artifacts while the rest shows beads and pottery.

(Santa Anna 1985)

86 pp., fully illus., partly in color, 215 x 275 mm,

pbk. 19.50

71 4 623 Ito, Kenji, THAI CERAMICS FROM THE SOSAI COLLECTION

The exceptional ceramic wares produced in Thailand between the 13th and 15th centuries from Sukhothai and Sawankhalok and northern kilns such as those at Kalong and Sankampaeng are the subject of this richly illustrated book by a collector and scholar of Thai ceramics. Originally published in Japanese in 1985 as a catalog for an exhibition at the Toyama Museum of Fine Art, this English edition has been revised and extended, and includes twenty new illustrations.

(Singapore, Bangkok 1989) ISBN 974-8495-29-9

136 pp.,fully illus., 27 b & w and 105 color illus.,

2 maps, 190 x 250 mm 29.00

72 21 268 Shaw, J. C., NORTHERN THAI CERAMICS

This second edition retains the original text as published by Oxford University Press in 1981, but has been brought fully up to date with a new preface and footnotes which tell of the latest discoveries at the northern kilns, excavations at Sisatchanalai, and the Tak Hilltop Burial Sites. Additional appendices on "Potters’ marks," "Fakes," and "the Tak Burials" have been included. The number of full color pages has been increased from 32 to 80 and many new pieces are illustrated.

(Chiang Mai 1989)

254 pp., fully illus., 80 pp. in color, 195 x

260 mm 65.00

73 3 547 Southeast Asian Ceramic Society,

A CERAMIC LEGACY OF ASIA’S MARITIME TRADE. SONG DYNASTY GUANGDONG WARES AND OTHER 11th TO 19th CENTURY TRADE CERAMICS FOUND ON TIOMAN ISLAND, MALAYSIA

The is the catalog of the Second Members Exhibition of the West Malaysia Chapter of the Southeast Asian Ceramics Society held in the Musium Seni Asia, University of Malaysa. The exhibition, based on some 1,600 ceramic finds, both sherds and complete wares, found on the island of Tioman, represents a small but durable element of the trade which once prospered on the wealth of the natural products in this region. Where possible the sherds have been matched to whole vessels in museums and private collections in Malaysia, to illustrations of similar wares, to finds at other trading sites and to archeological material from kiln sites, so as to give a picture, in ceramics, of the part played by Malaysia and its islands in the maritime trade between China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East over the last eight centuries.

(Kuala Lumpur 1985)

160 pp., fully illus., 48 pp. in color, 215 x

305 mm, 65.00

74 4 343 Capon, Edmund, QIN SHIHUANG: TERRA-COTTA WARRIORS AND HORSES

Catalog of the exhibition of Qin Dynasty archeological treasures held in Australia in 1983, including an extensive historical introduction, descriptions of objects, maps, chronological tables, and bibliography.

(Victoria 1983)

96 pp., illus. in color, 210 x 275 mm, pbk. 15.00

75 5 319 Wang Shixiang, CONNOISSEURSHIP OF CHINESE FURNITURE: MING AND EARLY QING DYNASTIES

The work comprises two volumes. The first discusses: Ming and Early Qing Furniture; The Types and Form of Furniture; Construction and Joinery; Decoration; Materials; the Problems of Dating and Alterations. Volume 2 contains the illustrations, photos and drawings.

(Hong Kong 1990)

226+190 pp., fully illus., 235 x 310 mm,

2 vols in slipcase *99.50

76 22 070 Eiseman, Fred B., ULAT-ULATAN: TRADITIONAL BASKETRY IN BALI

Available here, for the first time, is a detailed description of Ulat-ulatan, traditional Balinese basketry, covering all of the traditional types of Balinese baskets and related woven materials, the materials from which they are made, and photographs and diagrams of how they are made. Utilitarian Balinese basketry as a craft has long lived in the shadow of the more heavily hyped, flamboyant painting, silverwork, and wood carving. Yet basketry is much more a product of traditional Balinese culture than these other forms that have been specifically created for the tourist trade and are seldom used by Balinese people themselves. Long before souvenir seekers arrived in Bali, basketry was being made in almost exactly the same fashion as one sees it today. No Balinese household can function without half a dozen or more varieties of these products, all made by hand from native materials to meet the needs of daily chores. They are rugged, light in weight, cheap, functional, and available in every village market. They represent a craft made by Balinese people for Balinese consumption. Visitors to Bali will find that these crafts may be just as useful or even decorative in their own homes.

(Bangkok 1999) ISBN 974-8434-89-3

285 pp., illus. 8 pp. color illus., 210 x 290 mm,

pbk. 29.50

77 6 307 Heppell, Michael, MASKS OF KALIMANTAN

A uniquely graphic look into the ritualistic past of Borneo. This catalog contains 44 full color illustrations of the ritual masks worn by the Dayaks of Borneo.

(Melbourne 1992)

71 pp., 24 pp. illus. in color, 210 x 225 mm,

pbk. 20.00

78 8 184 Hose, Charles & William McDougall, THE PAGAN TRIBES OF BORNEO. VOL 1.

The first volume of the classic work on the ethnography of Borneo which can be read in its own right. The text, photographs, and sketches vividly document a way of life that has now practically disappeared. Chapters include: the Geography of Borneo, Life on the Rivers, Life in the Jungle, War, Handicrafts, and Decorative Art. Based on Hose’s twenty years as a colonial administrator among the peoples of Sarawak, this account presents the life-work of a dedicated observer and is an indispensable source for the cultures of central Borneo. An extensive introduction by Brian Durrans contextualizes Hose’s work.

(Singapore 1993; repr. from 1912)

519 pp., 143 pp. illus., 145 x 220 mm 30.00

79 21 970 Iyer, Alessandra, PRAMBANAN: SCULPTURE AND DANCE IN ANCIENT JAVA

A study of the dance reliefs of the ninth century AD temple of Siwa at the Prambanan complex in central Java. Previous attempts at identification of these ancient reliefs were hampered by inadequate movement analysis of the dance portrayed but in this book, for the first time, a complete identification is presented, through a re-interpretation of the archaeological data. Using both movement analysis and comparison with an authoritative reconstruction model, the author rigorously examines each of the 62 reliefs and identifies them as representations of the karana (dance movement units) of the Sanskrit text from India on dance and drama, the Natyasastra. These reliefs almost cetainly depict lord Siwa. They point to the presence throughout Asia of the karana dance tradition wherever Saivism flourished and as they predate any equivalent series found in India, they suggest that the idea of karana sculptural series originated outside India and only subsequently reached the sub-continent.

(Bangkok 1997) ISBN 974-8434-12-5

223 pp., 225 illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 22.50

80 3 835 Kartomi, Margaret J., MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF INDONESIA

An introduction to the musical instruments of Indonesia. Originally an introductory handbook to an exhibition of these musical instruments, this publication contains a description of the intruments, a discography, selected bibliography, and notes on the exhibition.

(Melbourne 1985)

60 pp., 48 pp. illus., partly in color, 205 x 225 mm,

pbk. 14.75

81 21 627 Thong, Denny, A PSYCHIATRIST IN PARADISE: TREATING MENTAL ILLNESS IN BALI

The book tells the story of a most remarkable attempt by an Indonesian doctor trained in Western medicine, and in charge of a western-style hospital in Bali in Indonesia, to use traditional healing practices in the treatment of mental illness. Bali, idealized by many as the archetypal island paradise, has its fair share of mental illness and, within its traditional culture, has developed ways of dealing with such illness that are significantly different from those traditionally espoused by Western medicine, but which are now beginning to gain support in the West. For nearly two decades Dr. Denny Thong strove to integrate modern (Western) health care systems with Balinese customs, decentralizing treatment to the villages, reorganizing the hospital to become a focal point of the community and, most controversially, utilizing the services of traditional healers. Dr. Thong closely studied the ways in which the traditional healers worked, and his survey of the healers and his descriptions and analyses of their procedures add immeasurably to our knowledge of the subject.

(Bangkok 1993) ISBN 974-8495-77-9

216 pp., 150 x 210 mm 27.50

82 21 751 Bassenne, Marthe, IN LAOS AND SIAM

This diary describes the adventures and observations of a French woman during a trip up the Mekong to Luang-Prabang and back through Siam. At the end of 1909 the territorial situation in Indochina was largely consolidated and Marthe Bassenne’s book provides a first glimpse of the extent of the French efforts to open up the eagerly fought-over hinterland of Tonkin, Annam and Cochinchina. The Mekong and the Lao jungles were as wild and as deadly as ever and this trip to experience the New Year festivities in Luang-Prabang is full of adventures with local people and wild nature. On the way back, through the northeastern Siamese provinces of Nongkhai, Uttaradit and Phitsanuloke the feelings of the indigenous people towards a French woman, are faithfully recorded. For, while this book is factually correct in its details, it is so much the richer for its emphasis on impressions and personal feelings personal feelings of one of the rare woman travelers in this part of the Far East. The beautiful original photographs of the first edition overwhelm the reader and immerse him in a wild world long forgotten . . . jungles and natural resources that are today, once again, ready to be developed.

(Bangkok 1995, First English translation from 1912) ISBN 974-8496-29-5

144 pp., illus., 145 x 210 mm, pbk. 17.50

83 21 765 Carné, Louis de, TRAVELS ON THE MEKONG: CAMBODIA, LAOS, AND YUNNAN

This book is a report of the most famous expedition in Indochina, i.e., the exploration of the Mekong as a trade route and as a route to build political influence in Indochina. This French official mission toiled under duress for two years, losing its commander on the way, and it made, for the first time, a systematic description of the great river and its surrounding peoples and natural resources. Louis de Carné was the representative of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs and in charge of writing the trade and political report on the findings of the Commission. The book does more than that as it takes up the history of particular areas in some detail to place the French prospects for gaining influence in perspective. Illustrated with original sketches, many of which were made by L. Delaporte, another member of the mission, this book is essential reading for all those who seek to understand the background of today’s geo-political changes and the new attempts to tap the rich sources of the river, its tributary valleys, and its peoples.

(Bangkok 1995, repr. from 1869)

ISBN 974-8496-31-7

417 pp., 27 pp. illus., 1 folded map, 150 x 215 mm, pbk. 27.50

84 22 074 Chazée, Laurant, THE PEOPLES OF LAOS: RURAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITIES

This book is the first comprehensive study conducted in Laos combining research on ethnic culture and indigenous values and the present socio-economic development. The 132 identified ethnic groups and sub-groups belong to the four linguistic families represented in Laos: Tai, Austroasiatic, Miao-Yao, and Sino-Tibetan. For each linguistic family, a detailed case study shows the ethno-linguistic specificity, as well as the institutional and socio-economic com-plexity. 132 maps give the geographic distribution of each group in Laos, while a large folded map shows the national linguistic and ethnic distribution pattern. For 56 ethnic groups and sub-groups, pictures cover people, habitat, agro-ecosystems, production systems and ethnic-related activities and handicrafts.

This publication describes the peoples’ diversity in the rural areas of Laos during the period 1992-1999. Specifically, the research, based on inter-disciplinary and participatory approaches—historical, ethno-linguistic, institutional, religious and natural resource management diversities of the rural communities—was conducted for a better understanding of the values and organizations of the rural communities. In the current period of world globalization, with the persistent challenge of poverty reduction through human development and gender issues, this study highlights great people and rural mosaics, and the still retained authenticity of Laos. If this cultural richness is not understood and preserved, several positive and environmentally friendly indigenous groups will continue to lose ground, sometimes at great social and environmental cost. This work contributes to a better knowledge of the indigenous values and systems of the ethnic groups, who are, or should be, the key partners and decision-makers in conceiving and implementing socio-economic development programs.

(Bangkok 1999) ISBN 974-8434-86-9

200 pp., illus., 70 pp. color illus., 1 folded map in pocket, 210 x 290 mm, pbk. 32.50

85 21 865 Delaporte, Louis & Francis Garnier,

A PICTORIAL JOURNEY ON THE OLD MEKONG: CAMBODIA, LAOS AND YUNNAN. Vol. 3 of the Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866-1868)

In this third part of the Mekong Exploration Commission Report, 1866-1868, published as an oversized volume with numerous splendid color plates and four maps, the journey along the Mekong is retraced using plates not published in the two other volumes on the Mekong Expedition as well as by masterfully drawn color plates of tribal costumes from the regions the Commission passed through. This volume graphically supplements the descriptive reports of the Com-mission’s work and can be read fruitfully in its own right as a journey along the Old Mekong.

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8496-76-7

225 pp., fully illus., partly in color, 210 x 290 mm,

pbk 50.00

86 21 720 THE FRENCH IN INDOCHINA

At the time of its first publication in 1879, this was the first record in English of the French penetration into Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia which led, within a few years, to French colonization of the region. Making extensive use of first-hand accounts, the anonymous author provides the essence of the major exploratory travels of the time. Discussed are: Henri Mouhot’s pioneering 1860 account of his ascent of the middle and upper Mekong; Francis Garnier’s bold exploration of Cambodia, Laos, Tonkin and Yunnan and Dr. A. Morice’s peregrinations among the little-known towns of French Cochinchina. All the first-hand, full reports—in English translations—of these explorations are also available from White Lotus Press.

(Bangkok 1994, reprint from 1890)

ISBN 974-8496-14-7

152 pp., 32 pp. illus., 145 x 210 mm, pbk. 14.50

87 21 863 Garnier, Francis, TRAVELS IN CAMBODIA AND PART OF LAOS. Vol. 1 of the Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866-1868)

Travels in Cambodia and Part of Laos is the first part of the Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866-1868), one of the most important expeditions sent to the Indo-China region to explore trade routes. The French expedition compiled a wealth of new information, drew maps, and produced a substantial number of engravings of Laos. It ended in Luang Prabang where the Commission stayed some months. While the original objective to ascertain that the Mekong River could be used as a trade route between Yunnan and the Delta was not achieved, the Commission’s political and socio-economic information was invaluable for France’s expansion in Indochina. A new map of Indochina as surveyed by the Commission is included in this book. (Bangkok 1996, first English translation from 1869-71) ISBN 974-8496-73-2

370 pp., 43 black & white illus., 140 x 210 mm,

1 folded map, pbk. 35.00

88 21 864 Garnier, Francis, FURTHER TRAVELS IN LAOS AND IN YUNNAN. Vol. 2 of the Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866-1868)

This second volume contains the report of the Commission’s travels in Upper Laos and in Yunnan. It ended with the return of the Commisson via China and reports on the dramatic Muslim uprising in Southern China. Several attempts to identify trade routes on the Mekong by the Commission’s most famous member, Francis Garnier, are also included in the report.

(Bangkok 1996, first English translation from 1869-71) ISBN 974-8496-75-9

301 pp., 30 black & white illus., 150 x 210 mm,

pbk. 30.00

89 22 018 Gunn, Geoffrey C., THERAVADINS, COLONIALISTS AND COMMISSARS IN LAOS

This overview ranges across the history, sociology, politics and economy of this small landlocked kingdom turned People’s Republic. Theravadins stand for the majority Lao Loum Buddhist population. Commissars stand for the soldier-bureaucrats who struggled to rebuild Laos in a communist mould. Colonialists stand as a metaphor for the French, and their American successors, who supported the kingdom in the long civil war against Cold War adversaries. Once a synonym for war and revolution, Laos today is a nation struggling to take its place in the prosperity of the ASEAN economies. However, the question of how the communist Pathet Lao movement triumphed against all adversity, remains unanswered. After the victory, the question arises of how successful the first generations of communist rulers have been in managing this country, even by their own standards? This book weaves together a number of threads in the endeavor to answer these and other questions. The book is divided in five parts: Facts and Theory; anti-Colonial Stirrings; Civil War; Men who Make History; State, Nation and Army and Problems of Development. An overview of recent research and suggestions for the way forward concludes the book. While the book forms a unity, the essays stand alone and may be read as parallel histories in their own right.

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-39-7

290 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 22.50

90 21 952 Harmand, F. J., LAOS AND THE HILLTRIBES OF INDOCHINA: JOURNEYS TO THE BOLOVEN PLATEAU, FROM BASSAC TO HUE THROUGH LAOS, AND TO THE ORIGINS OF THE THAI

A report of explorations undertaken in Laos and present-day Vietnam by one of the main architects of French expansion in Southeast Asia. For the first part of his explorations, Dr. Francois Jules Harmand concentrated his journey of early 1877 on exploring the Boloven Plateau. His attention was focused especially on natural history and on the tribes living in this area. The second part of his exploration brought him to river valleys in Central Laos and the country of the Pou Thay, the original stock of the Thais, with the objective of finding a route from Bassac on the Mekong to Hué on the Vietnamese coast. The value of his observations on nature, people and political relations is only surpassed by the intrinsic value of this account as an example of nineteenth century French colonialists at work.

(Bangkok 1997, first English translation from 1878-9) ISBN 974-8496-99-6

292 pp., illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 22.50

91 21 809 Lefèvre, Émile, TRAVELS IN LAOS: THE FATE OF THE SIP SONG PANA AND MUONG SING (1894-1896)

Written by a member of the famous Pavie Mission, this book describes a dramatic episode in the tale of French conquests in Indochina. The rivalry of British imperialism and French colonial activists, mostly operating from their Indochinese base in Saigon, reached its culmination when the Asian possessions of the superpowers met in Upper Laos. Several small states that had been able to preserve their relative independence by paying tribute to virtually all regional powers, were finally caught up in the endgame of colonial expansion. France was to be the victor this time and formerly neutral states such as Muong Sing, the Hua Pan Tang Ha Tang Hoc, the Sip Song Chu Tai and the Sip Song Pana, with their semi-independent rulers, were to disappear, to become present-day Laos and part of Vietnam. The story unfolds amidst the wild landscapes and fertile valleys of Upper Laos where, for centuries, different peoples, all with their particular customs, dress and languages, had fought each other for control of the land and the trade routes. The mission and Dr. Lefèvre spared no effort to travel the country back and forth until finally a Franco-British agreement settled the border and also the fate of the peoples. In many cases, Dr. Lefèvre was the first white man the tribes saw and he, in turn, was the last man to see their authentic life styles.

(Bangkok 1995, first English translation from 1898) ISBN 974-8496-38-4

229 pp., 130 x 200 mm, pbk. 17.50

92 22 003 Marini, G. F. de, A NEW AND INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF THE LAO KINGDOM (1642-1648)

This account was written by the Italian Jesuit G. F. de Marini based on several sources, the most important of which was his colleague G. M. Leria who worked in Laos from 1642 to 1648. It is one of the few very early accounts of that kingdom available. Originally recorded in Italian and published in 1663, the descriptive parts of the account were published in French in 1666. They appear here for the first time in English. The account deals with the considerable riches and power of the Lao kingdom during this period. It provides information, recorded through the eyes of a Jesuit, on the religion, customs, livelihood and natural qualities of the Lao people and on the much talked about splendor of the Court and religious ceremonies in Laos.

(Bangkok 1998, first English translation from 1663) ISBN 974-8434-13-3

153 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 16.50

93 21 951 Neis, P., TRAVELS IN UPPER LAOS AND SIAM, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CHINESE HAW INVASION AND PUAN RESISTANCE

A report of an exploration undertaken in 1882 in Upper Laos and the border areas between British Burma, China, Vietnam and Siam by Doctor Neis under the auspices of the French Minister of Public Education. Searching for knowledge about the local tribes and a commercially viable trade route from the Mekong valley to Annam or Tonkin (present-day Vietnam), Doctor Neis met the Puan people fleeing from armed Chinese Haw bandits who had destroyed the Puan kingdom and threatened to invade large parts of the valleys that are the Laotian tributaries to the Mekong. Doctor Neis found himself in dire straits, fleeing in his turn from the approaching Haw and eventually returning to Luang Prabang. He explored the Nam Ou valley in Central Laos and described the local customs. From Luang Prabang, he undertook the exploration of the Siamese vassal states in the present-day Golden Triangle, and, besides the flourishing opium trade, also found the British traders doing well. Descending through Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, he provided a prophetic picture of expanding British interests and of the struggle between the local northern vassals and residents sent by the Bangkok government of King Chulalongkorn.

(Bangkok 1997, first English translation from 1884) ISBN 974-8496-89-9

158 pp., illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 17.50

94 6 550 Ovesen, Jan, ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE IN CENTRAL LAOS

This report is the result of a short-term anthropological consultancy which formed part of the feasibility study for the future construction of a dam and hydroelectric power plant in a rather remote area of central Laos. The author concludes that in contrast to (anthro-pologists’ opinion of) so many other development projects, the present project will have mainly beneficial effects on the local population. In one part of the project area the population pressure and consequent shortening of fallow periods make the continuation of swidden farming progressively less viable. The other part of the area consists of a flat plain where paddy cultivation dominates, and conditions for the further development of wet-rice agriculture are good. It is envisaged that the hydro-power project may directly or indirectly induce many of the swidden agriculturalists to move into the plain and become paddy farmers, which is both economically and ecologically prefereable.

(Bangkok 1999) 974-8434-72-9

88 pp., illus., 165 x 245 mm, pbk. 22.00

95 21 941 Parker, James E. Jr., CODENAME MULE. FIGHTING THE SECRET WAR IN LAOS FOR THE CIA

Recruited by the CIA in 1970 after an infantry tour in Vietnam Jim Parker—codename "Mule"—led a band of Hmong tribesmen and Thai mercenaries against mainline North Vietnamese forces on the Plain of Jars and in defense of Skyline Ridge. With this compelling memoir he provides unparalleled insights into the Agency’s extensive covert actions in Laos and the men who conducted them. The largest paramilitary operation ever carried out by the CIA, it was a war Americans never heard about. But now Parker, with the CIA’s approval, reveals the details and captures the esprit de corps of the American case officers and pilots and their special bond with the Hmong warriors and their families.

(Bangkok 1997) ISBN 974-8434-05-2

234 pp., 30 pp. illus., 150 x218 mm, pbk. 19.50

96 22 052 Pavie, Auguste, MISSION PAVIE, INDOCHINE, 1879-1895. GÉOGRAPHIE ET VOYAGES VII. JOURNAL DE MARCHE (1888-1889). ÉVÉNEMENTS DU SIAM (1891-1893)

A reprint of the French version of the Mission Pavie’s seventh volume. Extremely rare and politically the most notorious of the whole series, it contains the dealings of A. Pavie with the Chinese irregular Black Flags, his wanderings along the Chinese border and in the Pou Eun areas, as well as Pavie’s unusual version of the gunboat incident at Paknam in 1893 and the skirmishes between Siamese soldiers and French political agents on the Mekong and on the borders of Thailand that led up to it. This volume was destroyed and is missing in most collections. This is a reprint of 300 copies only.

(Bangkok 1999; repr. from 1919; French text)

380 pp. illus., 3 maps, 210 x 290 mm 95.00

97 22 076 Pavie, Auguste, PAVIE MISSION EXPLORATION WORK. Vol. 1 of the Pavie Mission Indochina Papers (1879-1895)

Volume 1 is the first part of The Pavie Mission Indochina Papers (1879-1895), written by Auguste Pavie himself it provides an overview of exploration work done in Cambodia, Siam, Laos and Tonkin. The various French expeditions, carried out by a score of prominent researchers under the name Mission Pavie, not only compiled a wealth of new scientific and historical information and details of natural history and drew up maps—especially of disputed border areas between Laos, Siam, Cambodia, Yunnan and Vietnam—they also produced political results serving the pro-colonial faction in France. This book contains short descriptions of numerous journeys made in Cambodia, the Great Tonle-Sap Lake district between Siam and Cambodia, the Mekong in Cambodia, North Siam and its border areas with Laos, East Laos and its border areas with Tonkin, present-day Vietnam, and the Laotian areas bordering the middle part of Vietnam, then Annam. Together with a series of maps and itineraries published in Volume 2 of the series, Atlas of the Pavie Mission, that guide the reader through these still relatively remote areas, period photographs create an image of the adventurous world of nineteenth century Indochina.

(Bangkok 1999, First English translation of 1901, 1906) ISBN 974-8434-76-1

774 pp., 234 illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 35.00

98 22 073 Pavie, Auguste, ATLAS OF THE PAVIE MISSION. Vol. 2 of the Pavie Mission Indochina Papers (1879-1895)

This volume provides an overview of exploration work done in Cambodia, Siam, Laos and Vietnam by means of maps produced by the explorers and numerous itineraries of staff members of the mission. The various French expeditions, carried out by a score of prominent researchers under the name Mission Pavie, not only compiled a wealth of new scientific and historical information and details on natural history they also drew up accurate maps for areas where no western mapping work had previously been undertaken—especially in disputed border areas between Laos, Siam, Cambodia, Yunnan and Vietnam. This atlas also contains a number of color plates, masterpieces of the art of the time, that were incorporated in various research reports of the mission. Short descriptions place these in the context of the work of the Pavie Mission as documented in the other volumes in this series. However, this Atlas should be used together with Volume 1 of the series: Auguste Pavie, Pavie Mission Exploration Work. Laos, Cambodia, Siam, Yunnan & Vietnam.

(Bangkok 1999, First English translation from 1903) ISBN 974-8434-75-3

206 pp., 35 pp. illus. in color, 81 pp. maps, 210 x

290 mm, pbk. 35.00

99 22 114 Pavie, Auguste, TRAVELS REPORTS OF THE PAVIE MISSION. Vol. 3 of the Pavie Mission Indochina Papers (1879-1895)

This volume includes Auguste Pavie’s reports on his work in Upper Laos to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, his vivid account of the destruction of Luang Prabang and parts of his diaries on the 1893 Paknam Gunboat Incident which was the pretext the French needed to detach the Laotian territories from Siam. An overview of exploration work and Pavie’s political dealings with the Black Flag irregulars in respect to their submission and the turning over of suzerainty to France is given. The ultimate goal—making a link suitable for use by traders between Hanoi and Luang-Prabang as well as other trade outlets on the Mekong—is also docu-mented. Reports on Laos cover the areas inhabited by the Puan and various Thai, Meo, and Kha tribes as well as insights into the politics of local warlords and functionaries appointed by the various suzerains of these valleys which are today part of Burma, Laos, and Yunnan in southern China. Volume 2 of this series, Atlas of the Pavie Mission, contains maps accom-panying these explorations and plates documenting the gunboat battle at Paknam in 1893.

(Bangkok 1999, First English translation from 1911, 1919) ISBN 974-8434-82-6

774 pp., 111 illus., 150 x 210 mm,

pbk. 35.00

100 21 815 Stuart-Fox, Martin, BUDDHIST KINGDOM, MARXIST STATE: THE MAKING OF MODERN LAOS

This study examines the history and politics of modern Laos from its establishment as a French colony in the late nineteenth century to the communist state it is today. While the first three chapters outline the struggle between France and Thailand for control over the territory of the present Lao state, the period of French administration, and the Kingdom of Laos from 1946 to 1975, the focus primarily is on the Lao People’s Democratic Republic during the first two decades of its existence. Themes taken up include the leadership of the Lao revolutionary movement, why the regime failed to carry through its policy of agricultural cooperativization, and its close relationship with Vietnam. Special attention is given to the transition from Buddhist kingdom to Marxist state, how the Lao communist hierarchy have attempted to legitimize their seizure and exercise of power, and how the Buddhist monastic order was reduced to a pliant instrument of the new regime. Other chapters assess the errors and achievements of the Lao revolution, the politics of patronage in present-day Laos, and the effectiveness of Lao foreign policy. The last two chapters weigh up the role of the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and look to the future of Laos in the rapidly integrating region of mainland Southeast Asia.

(Bangkok 1996) ISBN 974-8496-48-1

310 pp., 150 x 210 mm, 1 map, 6 illus., pbk. 17.50

101 22 017 Stuart-Fox, Martin, THE LAO KINGDOM OF LAN-XANG: RISE AND DECLINE

The book provides a narrative account of the great Lao kingdom that flourished in the middle Mekong region between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries. After an introductory chapter on the prehistory of Laos and migration of the Tai-Lao peoples, the foundation of a unified Lao kingdom is examined in the context of contending powers in mainland Southeast Asia. Among the events described are the Vietnamese invasion of the fifteenth century and subsequent consolidation of the Lao kingdom, the Burmese invasions of the following century and the arrival in the early seventeenth century of the first Europeans to visit the Lao capital of Viang Chan (Vientiane). The author shows how the inland Lao kingdom was disadvantaged with respect to coastal trading states and how the unitary Lao kingdom broke into three contending principalities in the early eighteenth century. This opened the way for Siamese domination of the Lao world. The last Lao attempt to shake off Siamese hegemony by King Anuvong of Viang Chan in the Lao-Siamese war of 1827-28 is examined in some detail because of the significance of its impact on subsequent relations between the independent states of Laos and Thailand. The book ends with the French annexation of Lao territories east of the Mekong in 1893.

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-33-8

250 pp., 150 x 210 mm, pbk. 22.50

102 6 549 Trankell, Ing-Britt, ON THE ROAD IN LAOS. AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION AND RURAL COMMUNITIES

This study was carried out in 1991 and focuses on socio-economic issues in connection with a Swedish road construction program. It demonstrates that road building in many respects has adverse social and economic effects on the rural population of the area. The questions it raises as to the beneficial effects of development aid for the common population of subsistence farmers may be relevant for issues in development anthropology in general. The turbulent history of Laos from the Second World War to the Revolution of 1975 left the country with serious social, economic and technological problems, which the revolutionary government is still struggling to overcome. Swedish development aid to the Lao people’s Democratic Republic began in 1977 with cooperation in the forestry sector, and in 1987 the road transport sector was included in the Swedish aid program.

(Bangkok 1999) ISBN 9874-8434-73-7

99 pp., illus., 165 x 240 mm, pbk. 22.00

103 22 010 McClure, H. Elliott, MIGRATION AND SURVIVAL OF THE BIRDS OF ASIA

This seminal work contains information on 724 bird species from East, Southeast and South Asia. Bird longevity and migrations are indicated by banding and returns collected during an eleven-year period, from 1963 until 1974. Birds have been suspected of being involved in the life cycles of several viral and rickettsial diseases. In Japan, an extensive study of the Japanese encephalitis virus suggested the involvement of migrating birds in its movements. But comprehensive information on bird migration routes in East Asia was not available. In this book the study of bird movements and their external parasites covers eleven countries and thirteen field stations. Although the banding work continued from 1963 until 1974, it has now been discontinued or reduced, except in Japan and India. Anyone interested in the distribution, movement, or survival of the birds of Asia or of the Northern Hemisphere will find this study an invaluable reference work.

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-8434-20-6

531 pp., 56 pp. illus., 46 pp. in color, 215 x 295 mm,

pbk. 65.00

104 21 201 McMakin, Patrick D., FLOWERING PLANTS OF THAILAND: A FIELD GUIDE

A standard work for serious students of Thailand’s natural history and those nature lovers who simply wish to learn the names of the flowers they encounter in their travels. It is a well-organized manual which will become a valuable reference. Divided into seven plant communities with definitive color plates for over 500 of Thailand’s common and rare flowering plants, this guide will make identifying species an enjoyable pastime.

(Bangkok 1999; 2nd revised edition)

ISBN 974-8495-64-7

248 pp., 104 pp. with 502 color photos, 150 x

210 mm 39.50

105 22 082 Pilai Poonswad, THE ASIAN HORNBILL: ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION

The latest study on the hornbills is divided into 4 parts: hornbill populations and their conservation (8 articles); hornbill breeding biology and other behavior (7 articles); hornbill habitat and ecology (7 articles); methods for research and conservation (7 articles).

(Bangkok 1998) ISBN 974-7577-79-8

355 pp., 195 x 265 mm 38.00

106 21 792 Piprell, Colin & Ashley J. Boyd, THAILAND’S CORAL REEFS: NATURE UNDER THREAT

This book brings the wonder and the mystery of the coral reef alive for the general reader. At the same time it provides sufficient information to make the book useful to anyone interested in environmental studies, marine biology, or sport diving. Indeed, armchair readers may be surprised to find themselves suddenly interested in learning to dive. Included in this book are:

Natural History (with a basic field guide to life on the coral reef)

Environmental pressures

Conservationist responses (Thailand as a case)

Prognosis from a global perspective

The coral reef is one of nature’s richest field laboratories, a great genetic archive matched only by the tropical rain forest. It is also one of Asia’s finest recreational assets. But this precious resource is everywhere under threat.

The brilliant photographs and lively text make Thailand’s Coral Reefs both fun and informative, both accessible to everyone and detailed enough to satisfy all but the most specialist readers.

(Bangkok 1995) ISBN 974-8496-42-2

158 pp., fully illus. in color, 210 x 300 mm,

pbk. 29.95

107 X 2 754 Winkler, Manfred, FORAYS OF A SELF-STYLED ORCHID STALKER. THAI ORCHIDS OF THE LESSER-KNOWN KIND

A collection of 15 watercolors printed on carton and bundled in a folder; ideally suited for framing.

(Bangkok 1985)

in color, 220 x 300 mm 17.50

10 sets 95.00

108 8 123 Caddy, Florence, TO SIAM AND MALAYA IN THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND’S YACHT SANS PEUR

Covering a journey through the Red Sea to India, Singapore, and Siam with a return via Malaya, Ceylon, and Egypt in a luxurious yacht, the book presents an entertaining and historically valuable account of exotic travel. Caddy, invited to join the yacht as "geographer and naturalist," offers first hand descriptions of court life and much information on the work she was engaged in.

(Singapore 1992; repr. from 1889)

372 pp., 1 p. illus., 1 map, 130 x 195 mm, pbk. 10.00

109 8 121 Choisy, Abbé de, JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO SIAM, 1685-1686

One of the most colorful characters of his day, Choisy was a libertine, courtier, priest and diplomat who in 1685 took on the astonishing mission to convert King Narai to Catholicism. In the form of daily journal entries written for a friend, the work is a lively and fluent portrait of Choisy’s experience in Siam. This first English translation of a classic of French travel writing is accompanied by a comprehensive intro-duction by Michael Smithies which places Choisy and his account in its historical context.

(Kuala Lumpur 1993)

325 pp., 16 pp. illus., 145 x 225 mm 22.00

110 522 Crawfurd, John, JOURNAL OF AN EMBASSY TO THE COURTS OF SIAM AND COCHIN CHINA

This first hand account of the first European mission to Thailand since the seventeenth century and the last British mission to Vietnam was for a century and a half the indispensable handbook for those interested in the 19th century politics and commerce of these countries. Crawfurd’s mission for the East India Company was of considerable historical importance, and there are also interesting descriptions of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore after the main text.

(Singapore 1987; repr. from 1828)

600 pp., 2 pp. illus., 1 folded map, 190 x

260 mm 30.00

111 8 081 Dumarçay, Jacques & Michael Smithies, CULTURAL SITES OF BURMA, THAILAND, AND CAMBODIA

The considerable number of mainland Southeast Asia’s ancient cultural sites are increasingly visited and appreciated by overseas travelers. The complex of Angkor in Cambodia is again open, and Burma has its equivalent in Pagan and in the more recent center of Mandalay, where the last Burmese king held co