IS BN 978-974-7534-57-3
WL Order Code 22 184
US$28.00
Bangkok 2001, first English trans. of 1923;
300 pp., 76 pp. illus., l50 x 2l0 mm, pbk.
Abadie, Maurice;Minorities of the Sino-Vietnamese Borderland, with Special
Reference to Thai Tribes
This overview presents comprehensive ethnographic introductions to the tribes
found in northern Vietnam and China’s Yunnan Province.
A brief sketch of
historical migration patterns and ethnic affiliations with tribes in Yunnan is
provided and a systematic overview given of many tribes of each of four main
groups, the Thai, Man (Yao), Meo, and Lolo. Maurice Abadie, a French officer in
the Muong Khuong-Pha Long region of the Sino-Vietnamese border (northwest
of Lao Kay) just before the First World War, furnishes first-hand information.
He discusses each tribe’s origins and settlement, physical characteristics, family
life and ancestral cults, livelihood and farming methods, customs related to
marriage, childbirth, and death, and trade and crafts, with special reference to
textiles.
The study includes detailed descriptions of every group, supported by
120 unique photos.
Abadie also discusses the growing Chinese and Vietnamese
influence that would unmistakably modernize these tribes that today mostly
preserve only their special costumes as the inalienable characteristic of their
original identity.
IS BN 978-1-883642-46-4
WL Order Code 8 223
US$16.00
Vermont 1994, 251 pp., 130 x 210 mm, pbk.
Adams, Sam;War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir
A memoir of Adams’ struggle to inform the American public that they were
being mislead by the CIA about the state of the war.
IS BN 978-974-8434-56-8
WL Order Code 22 059
US$20.00
Bangkok 1999, first English trans. from
1860, ‘78, ‘93, ‘94, 1907; 248 pp., illus., 150
x 210 mm, pbk.
Barrelon, P., B. de Corbigny, Ch. Lemire & G. Cahen; Cities of Nineteenth
Century Colonial Vietnam: Hanoi, Saigon, Hue and the Champa Ruins
This compilation volume provides reports by various French writers on the
early development of the French colony of Indochina, present-day Vietnam.
Pierre Barrelon’s (1859) account of the colonial history of Cochin-china, the
southern part of Vietnam, is supplemented by an 1892 article on the considerable
developments that took place in Saigon.
Diplomat Broassard de Corbigny
(1878) provides descriptions of Hue and of his audience with King Thu-Duc of
Annam when the exchange of a treaty with France sealed the fate of Annam,
the middle part of present-day Vietnam.
Charles Lemire presents an overview
of the rich Cham monuments, virtually the only remnants left of an indigenous
culture displaced by the Vietnamese. Finally, after France marched into the
northern part of Vietnam, then called Tonkin, it took development firmly in
hand and established railway lines, roads, and educational and administrative
buildings and systems.
Gaston Cahen saw these developments in 1905 and
reported on them and the ideas behind them.
The reports are richly illustrated
with engravings and period photos.
IS BN 978-974-8496-69-6
WL Order Code 21 868
US$33.00
Bangkok 1997, repr. from 1932; 246 pp., 150
x 210 mm, pbk.
Baudesson, Henry; Indochina and Its Primitive People
A lively report published by Captain Henry Baudesson in 1932 upon returning
from years of work in the interior of Vietnam on various French colonial public
works.
The author lived for years among the Moïs, which means “savages” in
Vietnamese, who comprise several hill tribes. He also spent considerable time
with the Cham, the curious remnants of the great Mohammedan Champa state.
The book is lavishly illustrated with period photographs of these hill people and
their customs in which captain Baudesson took a special interest.
Their social
life and religious rites are placed in the wider context of studies of primitive
peoples in other parts of the world.
Baudessons’ descriptions of their art and
culture are characterized by great respect for those who would soon suffer so
much from the growing influence of colonial ventures brought by way of the
railway line on which he was himself working.
IS BN 978-974-8434-45-2
WL Order Code 22 028
US$20.00
Bangkok 1998, first English trans. from
1893; 194 pp., illus. 16 pp. color illus., 150
x 210 mm, pbk.
Cupet, Captain P.; Among the Tribes of Southern Vietnam and Laos. ‘Wild’
Tribes and French Politics on the Siamese Border (1891)
This book reports a chapter of Franco-Siamese politics played out in 1890–91
among the independent tribes inhabiting the crossroads between French Southern
Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
Since various semi-independent states
in present-day Southern Laos and Cambodia were under the sovereignty of,
and paid tribute to, the King of Siam, Siamese military units were once again
confronting the dominant colonial power, France, at the borders.
The author,
Captain P. Cupet, was a member of the famous Pavie Mission and studied the
politics as well as the ethnography and anthropology of the tribes for years.
So his report incorporates significant material on such tribes as the Radé, the
Rare 19th century prints from Tonking, Annam
and Cochin are available
Djiaraï, the Davak, the Cédang, the Brao, the Bahnar and many smaller tribes.
His pictorial material is outstanding and unrivalled as a record of the peoples
that, in the 1960s, during the struggle for the forest trails in the next Vietnam
war, would enter big power politics once again.
IS BN 978-974-8434-41-4
WL Order Code 22 060
US$33.00
Bangkok 1999, first English trans. from
1889–1891; 624 pp., illus., 150 x 210 mm,
pbk.
Hocquard, Édouard; War and Peace in Hanoi and Tonkin. A Field-Report
of the Franco-Chinese War and on Customs and Beliefs of the Vietnamese
(1884–1885)
This work is the field report of a French medical doctor serving in the Franco-
Chinese war over Tonkin and Annam in the period 1884–1885.
The book
reports the conditions under which this war was fought in the plains and hills
of North Vietnam and describes a number of skirmishes between French and
Chinese troops.
However, Dr. Édouard Hocquard was much more than an army
doctor of the first class, with the rank of major, actively engaged in caring for
wounded soldiers, he was also a keen observer of the customs and beliefs of
the Vietnamese.
His attention was especially focused on social issues and the
livelihood of the Vietnamese, but he was also a meticulous observer of natural
history.
Numerous splendid, and previously unpublished, plates of scenes of
peace and war in the Vietnamese countryside and of picturesque towns make
for a colorful and worthy addition to Dr. Hocquard’s descriptions.
IS BN 978-974-7534-50-4
WL Order Code 22 188
US$23.00
Bangkok 2000; 352 pp., 150 x 210 mm,
pbk.
Johnson, Wray R.; Vietnam and American Doctrine for Small Wars
This tome is the first comprehensive treatment of the evolution of U.S. military
doctrine for countering guerillas and other irregular forces in small wars.
Since its inception, the United States has been engaged in small wars, or low
intensity conflict, and has contested irregular opponents in each.
The end of
World War II ushered in what has since become known as the “counterinsurgency
era, ” its genesis arguably the containment strategy of the Truman Doctrine
of 1947, upon which policy-makers and military planners constructed
rudimentary counterinsurgency doctrine for combating communist guerrillas
in Greece.
Yet Vietnam was the real test for counter-insurgency doctrine, and
the war in Vietnam has remained the touchstone for American involvement in
small wars ever since. With the end of the Vietnam War, small wars doctrine
has risen or fallen according to the perceived threat to the national security
interests of the United States, concurrent with the success or failure of scholars
and military professionals in persuading the national security bureaucracy to
make qualitative changes in doctrine and force structure.
In that light, this
study examines the roots of American military doctrine for small wars and
its subsequent evolution from “counterinsurgency” in the 1960s to “stability
and support operations” in the 1990s, and concludes with an analysis of the
legacy of Vietnam and the implications for emergent military doctrine in the
post-Cold War era.
IS BN 978-974-7534-99-3
WL Order Code 22 285
US$32.00
Bangkok 2002, first English trans. of the 2nd
edition, 1928; 236 pp., 36 pp. illus., 210 x
290 mm, pbk.
Maspero, Georges;The Champa Kingdom: The History of an Extinct Vietnamese
Culture
This is the first English translation of Georges Maspero’s seminal history of
Champa, a kingdom located on the coast of Vietnam. Written at the beginning
of the last century, the book went through several editions and revisions based
on expert comment.
The text presented here in its first English translation is
the second revised edition of 1928. Mostly based on Chinese and Viet sources,
the book traces the history of Champa from its origins to its final decline.
The
Cham people, a fierce, often ruthless warrior population living on the South
China Sea coasts were subjected both to the Chinese court and, at various
periods, to the Viet people advancing south.
The Cham often made the coasts
unsafe for traders—Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Portuguese alike—and hence
fomented innumerable military campaigns against them.
The Viet coming from
the north pushed them further into the northern and eventually the southern
parts of present-day Vietnam.
In the end, the Cham fled partly to Cambodia and
partly into the peninsula’s inhospitable hills where they live today as a pitiful
remnant of a once great nation.
IS BN 978-974-8496-96-2
WL Order Code 21 948
US$21.00
Bangkok 1997, first English trans. from
1875; 124 pp., illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Morice, A.;People and Wildlife in and Around Saigon (1872–1873)
A report on Dr. Morice’s posting in the then newly-acquired colony of France,
Cochinchina. Since the author took a special interest in snakes and insects,
attention is paid especially to these.
Dr. Morice also elaborates on the local
people and their customs, including the Chinese merchants in Saigon and on
the diseases most commonly occurring.
A number of local customs and festivities
are described through the tinted spectacles of a colonialist Frenchman.
Dr.
Morice also traveled the smaller towns of the Delta extensively, and contributes
to our knowledge of the terrain before the French commenced their culturally
damaging, large-scale intervention.
IS BN 978-974-8434-44-5
WL Order Code 22 025
US$28.00
Bangkok 1998, first English trans. from
1887; 224 pp., illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Neis, P.;The Sino-Vietnamese Border Demarcation, 1885–1887
The book reports on the work of the French and Chinese delegation which
together formed the Border Demarcation Commission set up after the
Franco-Chinese war (by the Treaty of Tien-Tsin, 9 June 1885) to determine
and mark the borders between China and Tonkin, France’s newest possession
in the Far East.
Besides reporting on the work of demarcation, Dr.
Neis reports briefly on the people and regions he passed through.
He also
provides a sketch of relations between local Chinese traders, lower-ranking
mandarins on both sides of the border, and the Annamites and hill tribes of
the border regions.
IS BN 978-974-7534-23-8
WL Order Code 22 223
US$23.00
Bangkok 2001, 290 pp., 16 pp. color illus.,
150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Nguyên Xuân Hiên, Glutinous-Rice-Eating Tradition in Vietnam and Elsewhere
This study presents, on a multi-disciplinary basis, the fabulous role of glutinous rice in day-to-day life and in ceremonial festivities and religious manifestations.
The author sums up his four decades of research and cross-checks with
documents and eyewitnesses both past and present, and with polls, surveys and
interviews performed recently.
All these are supported by sayings, proverbs,
lullabies, folksongs and folktales from North to South Vietnam and, to some
extent, in various neighboring countries where local people share with the
Vietnamese their traditional ways of preparing multiple specialties, types of
gruel, soups, porridges, cakes in endless kinds of shapes and colors but the key
ingredient remains glutinous rice.
The Vietnamese bánh giây is closely linked
to the Japanese mochi, the Chinese nian gao; the budbud in Mindanao (the
Philippines) and makes us remember the Indonesian lemper, the Vietnamese
bánh tét, the Thai khao tom khon; moreover, the way to drink ruou cân in
Central Highlands (Vietnam) does not differ in the manner of the pangasi feast
in Palawan (the Philippines).
Diversity fades before unity. The factual item that
unifies Southeastern Asians with one another is, among others, glutinous rice.
The modernization and globalization in the new millennium cannot challenge
the throne of this sacred rice because only through offerings with this rice can
the prayers communicate with Gods and Buddhas
IS BN 978-974-8434-38-4
WL Order Code 22 062
US$20.00
Bangkok 1999, repr. from 1892; 418 pp., 28
pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Orléans, Henri d’; Around Tonkin and Siam: A French Colonialist View of
Tonkin, Laos and Siam (1892)
Prince Henri d’Orléans’s political statement on the future of the French trade
and territorial expansion in Indochina is partly a travelog of areas visited: Hanoi,
the Red River regions, the Upper Black River to Lai Chau, Luang Prabang and
parts of Siam, and partly a political interpretation of the information gathered.
The author’s interests range far and wide in the domains of commerce and
industry of any kind that might turn out to be profitable for France’s colonial
adventure in the Far East.
He is also adept at canvassing political support with
the local rulers, among whom the legendary Déo Van Tri is the best known.
He visited and described several so-called hill tribes: Yao, Kha, Sa, Yan, and
others.
The book is illustrated, some of the illustrations show rare settings.
Although variable in quality, these provide some idea of the “primitive” state of
these future French subjects.
IS BN 978-974-8434-00-1
WL Order Code 21 953
US$27.00
Bangkok 1997, repr. from 1968; 397 pp., 8
pp. in color, 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Osborne, Milton;The French Presence in Indochina and Cambodia: Rule
and Response (1859–1905)
This pioneering study of the first five decades of French colonial presence in
southern Vietnam (Cochinchina) and Cambodia has been described as “indispensable”
in relation to Cambodia’s history and “fascinating” for its account
of the rise of a French-backed Vietnamese elite in Cochinchina.
Drawing on
previously neglected archival sources in Paris, Phnom Penh and Saigon, the
book shows that the effects of French policies were sharply different in the
two regions.
In southern Vietnam, France’s policy of direct rule created a new
and important class of collaborators, men who were ready to work with the
French and who gained materially from the colonial presence.
In Cambodia by contrast, France preserved the king’s symbolic importance, despite stripping him of real power, a fact that was to be of great importance later in the twentieth
century.
It deals with a broad range of issues, including administration, law and
education, and penning vivid portraits of individuals of great interest, on both
sides of the colonial divide.
IS BN 978-974-7534-70-2
WL Order Code 22 240
US$28.00
Bangkok 2001, first English trans. of 1922,
1934, 1891; 152 pp., 56 pp. illus., 210 x 290
mm, pbk.
Parmentier, Henri, Paul Mus & Éntienne Aymonier; Cham Sculpture in the
Tourane Museum (Da Nang, Vietnam)—Religious Ceremonies and Superstitions
of Champa
The first report in this book offers an overview of Cham art with sixty-five photographs
and an introductory text by the eminent French archaeologist Henri
Parmentier. Originally published in 1922, this book remains one of the best
introductions to the treasures preserved in the Tourane Museum in Danang.
It
features splendid photographs of Cham art discovered in the main areas of this
long lost culture—Mi Son, Dong Duong, Khuong My, and Tra Kieu.
The development
of Cham art is sketched against the background of Annamese migration
pushing the Cham people and their kingdom ever further south.
The second part consists of two research reports.
The first one by Paul
Mus summarizes what is known about the religious practices of the Cham
people and is based on artifacts and translated inscriptions.
The author also
reviews evidence from contemporary Chain culture.
The religious inheritance
of Champa is related to Vedic, Indian, Chinese, and Annamese forms of worship,
and the significance of the Champa king as intermediary between the gods
and the soil is also discussed.
The second report by Étienne Aymonier contains an overview, dated
1884–85, of the religious practices, ceremonies related to veneration of divinities,
marriage, birth, priesthood, death, agriculture, collection of eagle wood,
and other customs of both groups of Chams, Muslims and non-Muslims, in
Vietnam, and Chams in Cambodia.
IS BN 978-974-7534-84-9
WL Order Code 22 270
US$33.00
Bangkok 2001, first English trans. of 1930;
172 pp., fully illus., 210 x 290 mm, pbk.
Robequain, Charles;Photographic Impressions of French Indochina: Vietnam,
Cambodia, and Laos in 1930
A photographic sketch of the colonies and protectorates the French established
around the turn of the century and the budding exploitation of those colonies.
Indochinese architecture, landscapes, and people in their daily activities are
shown in 203 magnificent photographs from the 1930s.
The journey covers the
present-day countries of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
The text, in English,
includes a brief introduction to the specific characteristics and history of each
country.
The photographs also include monuments of Champa, an extinct culture
on the coast of Central Vietnam.
Tribal people from various regions are
shown in their traditional costumes.
IS BN 978-974-8434-10-0
WL Order Code 21 975
US$33.00
Bangkok 1997, 166 pp., 80 pp. illus. in color,
4 maps, 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Schliesinger, Joachim ; Hill Tribes of Vietnam. Vol. 1: Introduction and
Overview
This volume describes the diversity of lifestyles and cultures of the mountain
peoples. Untouched by commercial development and modern attitudes for
decades, most of the tribesmen sustain their traditions.
Their natural surroundings
are occupied by spirits and genies.
Village and house construction,
agricultural activities, weddings, child births, sickness, death and many more
everyday situations are influenced by spiritual beliefs.
This first volume introduces
the ethnography and the classification of the hill tribe groups in Vietnam
and presents a general overview of the habitation, social structure, government
policy, education, health care, swidden farming, opium cultivation, religion and
traditional customs. 254 illustrations accompany the text.
IS BN 978-974-8434-11-7
WL Order Code 22 002
US$33.00
Bangkok 1998, 216 pp., 72 pp. color illus.,
150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Schliesinger, Joachim; Hill Tribes of Vietnam. Vol. 2: Profiles of Existing
Hill Tribe Groups
The book deals with the tribal customs and habits of all 50 mountain peoples
living in Vietnam.
This volume describes the history, costumes and crafts,
design of houses and villages, agricultural activities and the economy, society
and religious practices of each individual group.
The variety of their traditions
is shown in 229 illustrations.
IS BN 978-974-8496-93-1
WL Order Code 21 950
US$24.00
Bangkok 1997, repr. from 1976; 305 pp., 150
x 210 mm, pbk.
Terzani, Tiziano; Saigon 1975: Three Days and Three Months
This book reminds us of the fall of Saigon and the defeat of the Americans
in South Vietnam. Many people today visit Vietnam and in the back of their
minds they connect that country with a long, painful war that happened many
years ago.
But how did that war end? Here is a unique eye-witness account of
that dramatic, epochal event written by a journalist who had been in Indochina
as a war correspondent for over four years when, on April 27, 1975, he slipped
back into Saigon.
The city, surrounded by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese
forces, was in panic and thousands of people were trying to escape.
Foreigners,
including most journalists were soon evacuated by American planes, ships and
helicopters that landed on rooftops just before the communists moved in.
Terzani
decided to stay and he reported on the next ninety-four days: the last-ditch
negotiation attempts, the panicked US evacuation, the precipitous conquest of
Saigon, the anxious waiting for a bloodbath that never came, and the first signs
of transformation and reconstruction.
Terzani, whose reports of the takeover
at Doc Lap Palace on April 30, 1975, were the first news-bulletins out of the
new Vietnam, brings an informed passion to this exclusive story.
He provides
dramatic revelations about the last few days of the American presence: how the
Americans blocked negotiations to gain time for their own evacuation, the story
behind the abortive baby-lift, the unmasking of agents on both sides.
He offers
an incisive picture of Saigon waiting, of the Americans escaping, of communist
troops marching triumphantly into the city center shouting “Giai Phong! Giai
Phong! Liberation! Liberation!”
IS BN 978-974-7534-43-6
WL Order Code 22 186
US$21.00
Bangkok 2001, first English trans. of 1873;
294 pp., 62 pp. illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Thorel, Dr. Clovis; Agriculture and Ethnobotany of the Mekong Basin
The Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866–68)—Vol. 4
This the fourth volume of The Mekong Exploration Commission Report (1866–
1868) presents an in-depth overview of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, dye
and textile plants, and medicinal plants, and discusses the main trade crops of
the countries of the wider Mekong Valley, including Yunnan, Vietnam, Laos,
northeast Thailand, and Cambodia.
The main impediments to greater productivity
of these sectors are discussed in the framework of the beginning of French
colonial expansion in the area.
This overview contains a host of scientific facts
on uses of plants and agricultural methods practiced on various types of land
that cannot be found easily anywhere else.
The book has been enhanced with a number of period scientific drawings of botanical taxa of interest to present-day
readers.
IS BN 978-974-8434-53-7
WL Order Code 22 061
US$20.00
Bangkok 1999, repr. from 1910; 284 pp.,
illus., 150 x 210 mm, pbk.
Vassal, Gabrielle M.; Three Years in Vietnam (1907–1910). Medicine,
Chams and Tribesmen in Nhatrang and Surroundings
This doctor’s wife diaries cover a great number of aspects of the life of Vietnamese,
Cham and hill tribe people around Nhatrang as well as that of the life
of a French medical doctor and his wife in colonial Vietnam.
Gabrielle Vassal,
a British national, had a good eye for the position of women and for daily
household life and used her keen sense of observation and inquiry to analyze
what she saw.
The Vassals engage in the usual touristic and health excursions
to the Langbian plateau with its agricultural station, but also in big game hunting,
at that time still acceptable.
The book provides a good overview of local
ceremonies, superstitions and beliefs, and of the medical issues confronting the
administration.
This book’s descriptions are greatly enhanced by more than one
hundred extremely rare period photographs of all aspects of the life of these
peoples and of some of the old Cham monuments in Nhatrang.
See also Michael C. Howard, Textiles of the Daic Peoples of Vietnam, Textiles
of the Central Highlands of Vietnam, and Textiles of the Highland Peoples
of Northern Vietnam: Mon-Khmer, Hmong-Mien, and Tibeto-Burman
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