On June 6, 1913, George Groslier, a twenty-six year old French explorer, set out with a small group of native porters on a six-month trek in the Cambodian wilderness. A millennium earlier, the Khmer empire had ruled the entire region. In the 15th century, however, the kingdom mysteriously collapsed, with dense jungle quickly covering its fabulous temples. The French government charged Groslier with documenting the most remote edifices of the Khmer legacy - among them Preah Vihear, Wat Phu, Beng Melea and Banteay Chhmar - sites that remain isolated even a century later. This modern edition -...
On June 6, 1913, George Groslier, a twenty-six year old French explorer, set out with a small group of native porters on a six-month trek in the Cambo...
Early 20th century French Indochina: a place where the cultures, passions and blood of East and West mixed freely. In 1925, American author Harry Hervey saw white men "sowing the legend of Civilization in soil too fecund to resist any new growth," inspiring his most vivid novel. In a tale drunk with sensuous beauty, irony and dark intensity, we experience the life of one young girl-a congai-named Thi-Linh. Born of an Annamite mother and French father, Thi-Linh-a creature of fragile beauty and savage instinct-embodies the dreams, ambitions and future of Indochina, where two disparate races...
Early 20th century French Indochina: a place where the cultures, passions and blood of East and West mixed freely. In 1925, American author Harry Herv...
Charged with constructing a great bridge, Frenchman Claude Rollin travels to Cambodia with his wife Raymonde, who reluctantly sacrifices her high-society Parisian life. She adapts poorly, suffering from homesickness, fever and depression, colored by an innate fear of the local people. *** Claude, however, gradually embraces the natural beauty, values and purity of the gentle kingdom. Then he meets Kamlang, a native girl with whom he forges "a relationship unlike any he had ever imagined, or could imagine, while still bound by his Western values." His decisions result in anguish, betrayal,...
Charged with constructing a great bridge, Frenchman Claude Rollin travels to Cambodia with his wife Raymonde, who reluctantly sacrifices her high-soci...
Auteur engage, Nguy n Phan Long lutta pour l'egalite politique et culturelle au debut du 20eme siecle en Indochine francaise. Avec Le Roman de Mademoiselle Lys - l'un des premiers romans francais ecrits par un Vietnamien - il nous offre un livre d'idees autant qu'une uvre d'imagination . Il y raconte la quete culturelle, spirituelle et personnelle de Hai, une jeune femme brillante dechiree entre deux cultures. *** Fascinant et troublant a la fois, Le Roman de Mademoiselle Lys nous offre un apercu extraordinaire des questions qui animaient les debats politiques et intellectuels du Vietnam de...
Auteur engage, Nguy n Phan Long lutta pour l'egalite politique et culturelle au debut du 20eme siecle en Indochine francaise. Avec Le Roman de Mademoi...
