Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Books
2010
2011
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River Books is one of the foremost publishers of books on the art, architecture,
history and early culture of mainland Southeast Asia, as well as an
important series of books on textiles.
Thai language books cover aspects of Thai history and several
bi-lingual English-Thai dictionaries are published with
Oxford University Press and Chambers.
Working with acknowledged experts in each field,
River Books combines excellent photography, design and production values.
Significant books published this year include two books on China: Tea Horse Road - China’s Ancient Trade Road to
Tibet and China -Through the Lens of JohnThomson; two books on archaeology: 50 Years of Southeast Asian Archaeology
and Stories in Stone; and, in a new departure for River Books, two cookery books with a twist:
Rawfully Good - Living Flavours of Southeast Asia and Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Cook Book - Just Smile and Don’t Talk.
Forthcoming titles for 2011 will include Siamese Coins,AncientVietnam, Royal Hue and Thai Taxi
Talismans, as well as a fully revised edition of B J Terwiel’s best-selling Thailand’s Political History - From the
Thirteenth Century to Modern Times.
Full details available in this catalogue and on our website.
River Books
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CONTENTS
New Titles
4 Tea Horse Road – China’s ancient trade road to Tibet 32 Expedition Naga – Diaries from the Hills in
6 Bangkok Found – Reflections on the City Northeast India 1921-1937 2002-2006
7 China – Through The Lens of John Thomson 1868-1872 33 Peoples of The Golden Triangle
8 Rawfully Good – ‘Living’ Flavours of Southeast Asia 33 TheYao – The Mien and MunYao in China,
Vietnam, Laos and Thailand
9 Rirkrit Tiravanija – Cook Book
34 Very Thai – Everyday Popular Culture
10 50Years of Archaeology in Southeast Asia
Essays in Honour of Ian Glover 34 Mesmerization – The Spells that Control Us –
Why we are losing our minds to pop-culture
11 Siam and the League of Nations
Modernisation, Sovereignty and Multilateral 35 A Century of Thai Cinema
Diplomacy, 1920-1940 35 Thai FolkWisdom – Contemporary Takes
12 Stories in Stone – The Sdok Kok Thom on Traditional Proverbs
Inscription & the Enigma of Khmer History 36 The Ming Gap and Shipwreck Ceramics in
13 Preah Bot – Buddhist painted scrolls in Cambodia Southeast Asia
Towards a Chronology of Thai TradeWare
14 Thailand’s Political History
36 Caves of Northern Thailand
15 Unravelling the Myths of Southeast Asian Historiography
Essays in honour of Barend Jan Terwiel 37 Buddhist Art – An Historical and Cultural Journe
16 Siamese Coins – From Funan to the Fifth Reign 37 Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia
17 Sacred Sites of Burma – Myth and Folklore in an Evolving 38 Khmer Ceramics – Beauty and Meaning
Spiritual Realm 38 Bayon – New perspectives
39 Images of The Gods
Forthcoming 2011 39 Sacred Angkor
20 The Grand Palace and Rattanakosin Island 39 Buddhist Painting in Cambodia
21 Thai Taxi Talismans 40 Angkor – Cities & Temples
22 AncientVietnam – History and Archaeology 40 The Khmer Empire
23 Royal Hue – Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty 40 Angkor Map
24 Thai Furniture 41 Ancient Angkor
25 Bencharong 41 Ruins of Angkor
26 Beyond Angkor 41 Tonle Sap
26 Early Thailand – From Prehistory to Sukhothai 42 Cambodian Dance
27 Very Bangkok 42 Ancient Luang Prabang
27 Tears of the Truck Driver
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BANGKOK FOUND
Reflections on the City
Alex Kerr
168 pages
start to wonder where the mysterious appeal of printed pages.The joy of the book is that Alex Kerr 310 x 310 mm, hardback
Bangkok really lies. arrived in Bangkok as a seeker, and now takes us along for With 157 black and white photographs
a replay of the ride.At the end he admits Bangkok is too ISBN 978 616 7339 00 9
With wit and a wealth of anecdotes from
elusive to truly be ‘found’. But he has written probably
Kerr’s thirty years experience in Thailand,
Bangkok Found, sequel to his award-winning Lost
Japan, takes you on a journey to the essential and
the quirky, the factual and the mythical.
In this series of meditations on the city, old
the best single ‘guide’ for a visitor to Bangkok, who wants
to be provoked into looking at the city as it is, not as it is
often portrayed.
Chris Baker, Bangkok Post, 28 June 2010
S cottish photographer John Thomson (1837-1921) was one of the most influential
photographers of the 19th century and a pioneer of photojournalism.
Born two years before the invention of daguerreotype and the birth of
photography,Thomson first travelled to Asia in 1862 where he set up a professional
photographic studio. He became fascinated by local culture and the people of Asia and
culture meets global fusion in the crossroads that
in 1868 he made his second trip, this time settling in Hong Kong. Between 1868 and
is Bangkok.
1872,Thomson made extensive trips to Guangdong, Fujian, Beijing, China’s north-east
and down the Yangtze river, covering nearly 5,000 miles.This exhibition catalogue is
drawn from his time in these regions.
These were the early days of photography when negatives were made on glass plates that had
to be coated with emulsion before the exposure was made. A huge amount of cumbersome
equipment had to be carried from place to place and with perseverance, great energy and stamina,
Thomson managed to take a wide variety of images and themes, including landscapes, people,
architecture, domestic and street scenes. As a foreigner, his ability to gain access to photograph
women is also remarkable. In China,Thomson excelled as a photographer in quality, depth and
breadth, and in artistic sensibility.
John Thomson’s photographs appear courtesy of the Wellcome Library, London.
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RAWFULLY GOOD
‘Living’ Flavours of Southeast Asia COOK BOOK –
Just Smile and Don't Talk
Diana von Cranach
Rirkrit Tiravanija
"It is not what you see that is important but what takes place between people."(RT)
B ased in Bali, Diana von Cranach has long been Cook Book contains 23 recipes, previously performed in museums and galleries
a well-known local food explorer and creator more unusual traditional herbs and ingredients, used throughout the world. All were cooked once more in his Chiang Mai kitchen and
documented in the photographs by Antoinette Aurell. In addition, an essay by
of incredible food.A few years ago, she took for generations. Covering destinations from Bali in
Thomas Kellein of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and an extended interview between
her dedication to good food a step further by begin- Indonesia, Langkawi in Malaysia, Nha Trang inViet- him and the artist shed additional
ning a journey into the world of raw food using only nam, Siem Reap in Cambodia, Luang Prabang in light on Rirkrit's work. Through
locally sourced ingredients. Her idyllic and very per- Laos, Chiang Mai and Loei Provinces inThailand and this book the reader will under-
sonal resort Puri GaneshaVillas in North Bali, is one the cities of Bangkok, Singapore andYangon, Rawfully stand more of what moves the
artist as well as being able to cook
of only a few hotels worldwide to offer an alternative, Good reinvents over 99 well-known regional recipes such Thai staples from Pad Thai to
purely ‘living’ food menu to the surprise and delight with excitingly different and invigorating ‘living’ Flaming Morning Glory, as well
of her guests. flavours. as new interpretations of Swedish,
The idea for this book comes from the author’s German and Spanish classics
such as meatballs, Flädlesoup
desire to work with chefs at famous restaurants and
and Paella.
resorts throughout Southeast Asia, and to prepare
healthier and lighter vegan food using their own “Letting things burn and cook and
recipes as a basis. boil, that's great”. (RT)
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John Burgess
T he founding of an empire, the settling of frontier lands, a king’s gifting of gold pitchers and
black-eared stallions to a Brahmin priest – these and other remarkable stories come down to
us in the Sdok Kok Thom Inscription, one of the world’s most important ancient testaments.
Recovered at a ruined temple in Thailand close to the Cambodian border, the 340-line chronicle
unlocks the early history of the Khmer Empire.Yet temple and text have remained little known
Vittorio Roveda & Sothon Yem
outside expert circles. In this full and highly readable account, formerWashington Post correspondent
152 pages, 240 x 170 mm
John Burgess traces the impact of the great inscription, which was carved onto a sandstone monolith Paperback, 172 colour photographs
around 1052 AD, abandoned to the wild for centuries, then decoded by French colonialists. He relates ISBN 978 974 9863 99 2
the temple’s surprise emergence in 1979 as a haven for Cambodian refugees and resistance fighters
during the war in their homeland.Today Sdok Kok Thom is again at peace, its mission of preserving
history accomplished.
Including photographs of the temple, past and present, Refugee Camp 007 and its refugees and
militias; extracts from previously unpublished letters of French savant Étienne Aymonier, the
inscription’s first translator, written during his months of travels
G raduallly fading in disuse, ignored by art historians and museums, the
beautifully painted Buddhist scrolls called preah bot in Cambodia are
the subjecct of this book by the two authors of Buddhist Painting of Cambodia.
Preah Bots have been produced since the end of the 19th century as a personal and
intimate manifestation of the faith of pious Cambodian lay people, and are an impor-
around Cambodia in 1882-1885; a revised English translation of the tant element of the country's rich Buddhist cultural heritage. A large variety of cloths
full inscription by the University of Hawaii linguists Chhany are illustrated, showing events from the life of the Buddha and his previous lives
Sak-Humphry and Philip N. Jenner; a glossary of terms; and narrated in the Jataka tales. Particular emphasis has been paid to the Vessantara Jataka,
suggested further readings. the most popular of all Jatakas, detailing both its Pali version and previously unknown
Khmer versions.
‘While reporting on Cambodians fleeing war and revolution in This important book, with a summary in Khmer is the first attempt to document
1979, John Burgess came across an ancient Khmer temple hidden in the art and meaning of preah bot in Cambodian society at a time when the production
the bush… 30 years later he returned to that temple to decipher its of such cloths for religious use is gradually disappearing and being replaced by com-
history.The result is this lovely book that tells the story of the temple
mercial production for tourists or art collectors.
and the larger Angkor Empire levened with Burgess’ own odyssey to
recover that history.’ – Elizabeth Becker, author of When the War
was Over.
Quote from Cambodian Times Review.
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F irst appearing in 2005 and quickly selling out, this fully revised edition of Thailand’s Political
History continues in the same style as the first but with its scope dramatically widened.While
the first edition began with a portrait of late Ayutthayan society, the new edition steps back to
the thirteenth century, tackling some of the most topical and pressing historical debates at present.
It discusses the development and evolution of the Siamese state from the early Sukhothai period
history and in doing so propose new insights and interpretations.
Renowned historian ThongchaiWinichakul sets the scene by discussing Thai history
in the context of Siam’s Colonial conditions before B. J.Terwiel himself reviews the
controvery surrounding the Ram Khamhaeng inscription by to an analysis of Thai
through the fall of Ayutthaya to the rise of the Chakri dynasty in the late eighteenth century and its History during the PacificWar as seen in Thai textbooks by Hungguk Cho. Other
consolidation of power in the nineteenth. Moving into the twentieth century it traces the emergence chapters look at issues of ethnicity among the Hmong and Karen (Roland Mishung),
of the Thai nation state, the large-scale investments in modern infrastructure and the concomitant as well the constitution of gender in Northern Thailand (Katherine A. Bowie), and the
economic expansion that have occurred since the 1950s onwards. role of magic and religion in contemporary society.
A new final chapter brings the reader up-to-date and addresses Thailand’s current political situa- The view then widens from Thailand to look at historiography
tion spanning the rise and fall of Thaksin Shinawatra to the divisive and at times violent polarisation through the lens of textbooks in the Lao Democratic People’s
of Thai society. It traces the emergence of the rivalYellow and Red shirt protest groups, the takeover Republic (Volker Grabowsky).The dialogue and interaction
of Suvarnabhumi International Airport by the PAD and the occupation of Rachaprasong intersection between Europeans and various Southeast Asian nations are
by the UDD and their eventual violent examined in several chapters, using Dutch and Portugese sources,
dispersal by the Thai military. while perceptions of the Chinese in 17th century Germany is also
Often at variance with the more dominant discussed. Historical exactitude versus national myth is an impor-
interpretations of nationalistic history and with tant topic which forms the basis of four chapters focussing on
a strong reliance upon primary sources, Barend Burma andVietnam. Finally, Island Southeast Asia also enters the
J.Terwiel’s Thailand’s Political History makes a picture in essays on migration in Sumatra and Java and an examina-
refreshing assessment of past events possible. tion of letters fromWest-Java.
In effect, this publication sets about debunking the myths and
commonly held perceptions of Southeast Asia’s vibrant and at times
volatile history.
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T his is the first ever book about Thai coins and ethnographic
monies in English. It covers the time period from the
earliest proto-state up to the introduction of the baht
currency system.
The book describes the development of Thai money through a
of their relics.These Buddhist tales can arise and evolve with
astounding speed and creativity drawing on a variety of sources
ranging from local folklore to Sri Lankan chronicles.The author
uncovers the evidence for and traces the development of these
continuous economico-historical review with excerpts from a intricate myths across a wide spectrum of sacred sites ranging
variety of sources, including the Sukhothai inscriptions, the Royal fromYangon and the Mon State in Lower Burma to Pagan and
Chronicles of Ayutthaya, the records of individual Dutch, French Mandalay in Upper Burma as well as considering the areas of
and Portuguese travelers and unpublished documents from the Shan influence around Inle lake.
Royal Archive. Also featured are over 1,000 specimens of the coins The book demonstrates how sacred sites can emerge with
which have circulated in modern-day Thailand and its tributary remarkable frequency in our own time with only those that
states. Included are a selection of Thai documents from Rama IV’s possess myths catching the imagination of the Buddhist faithful
reign dealing with the emission of new currency, counterfeits and having any chance of long term survival. Sacred Sites of Burma is
money reforms. an essential read for anyone interested in the development of
Buddhism in its many aspects, be they its art, archaeology, history
or belief.
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T his new and comprehensive tome is a complete source book on Thai furniture from
its origins to modern day use.Thai Furniture is extensively illustrated with full
colour photos of rare and exquisite examples of traditional Thai furniture, includ-
ing antique furniture from royal palaces and private collections that have never before been
seen by the public or published in other books. Covering royal, religious, and household
furniture, this book presents an in-depth explanation of the history and development of
Thai scripture cabinets, day beds, chairs, altar tables, and the like, with descriptions on the
various types of furniture within each category, taking the reader on a journey of discovery
B encharong, a unique class of Chinese export ware, was made exclusively
for Thai royalty and the ruling elite in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Enamelled porcelain containers and dishes for the table and boudoir are
resplendent in kaleidoscopic colours inspired by verdant, tropical vegetation.
Lai Nam Thong (‘gold-washed’), a variant, takes the opulence of this ware to a
across time.
Comprehensively researched with historical documents, Thai Furniture is a valuable pinnacle by adding gold as an embellishment. Although Bencharong belongs
reference book for collectors and admirers of all types of traditional Thai furniture, and both in place and time to the broader tradition of Chinese export art for the
also features a beautiful section on antique furniture in contemporary use.The author goes European and American markets, it is distinctively Thai in style and aesthetics.
into some of Bangkok’s most exclusive private palaces and homes and gives readers a A wealth of lavish illustrations, many never before published, are visual revela-
glimpse of Thai furniture’s exotic beauty in a modern context. tions of Bencharong’s splendour.
Thai Furniture is written by internationally renowned author Chami Jotisalikorn, whose The author traces its history of Bencharong from the renowned kilns of
numerous books on style and design are sold worldwide in six languages and include Classic Jingdezhen to enamelling centres at coastal ports in southern China and its
Thai:Architecture, Design, Interiors; the best-selling design series, Contemporary Asian Home and final destination – Ayutthaya and Bangkok.
Thailand Chic. Dawn F Rooney, an art historian specialising in Southeast Asia, is the author
of eight books, of which four are on ceramics of the region.
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BEYOND ANGKOR
Helen Ibbitson Jessup &
Ang Choulean
Photography John Gollings
220 pages, 240 x 170 mm,
Paperback, over 350 colour illustrations
ISBN 978 974 9863 53 4
B angkok arrests the visitor with its bewildering juxtaposition
of old and new, hi-tech and impromptu, sacred and profane.
While modernizing at great pace under myriad outside influ-
ences, theThai capital draws equal vigour from its historic communi-
ties, cultural diversity and contemporary urban tribes.The author of
VeryThai and Time Out Bangkok, Philip Cornwel-Smith takes an alter-
native look at the subcultures of his adopted town in this practical
thematic handbook.With the aid of maps, listings and references, the
In a concluding chapter, Beyond Angkor gives an overview of the Buddhist monuments in the heart of
TEARS OF THE TRUCK DRIVER
the empire: Bayon, Preah Khan,Ta Prohm, with an extension to Banteay Chhmar.
Country Music In Thailand:
Helen Ibbitson Jessup’s authoritative is augmented by Ang Choulean insights into ethnography and Luk Thung, Maw Lum, Kantrum
mythology, accompanied by John Gollings’ superlative photography.
EARLY THAILAND
From Prehistory to Sukhothai
Charles Higham &
Rachanee Thosarat
T ears of the Truck Driver is the first book in English on Thai
country music, or ‘Pleng Luk Thung’, a genre of music that
is popular across the kingdom. Rooted in the daily lives of
the urban poor and rural peasantry, luk thung reflects the hopes,
joys, pain and pleasure of truck drivers, maids, factory workers
Dramatic new archaeological discoveries over the past ten years
demand a new look at Thailand’s past. Drawing on his previous and rice farmers.
work Prehistoric Thailand, this book with over forty per cent revised Tears of theTruck Driver takes the reader on a journey of discovery
material, covers the history of the Kingdom from the first human into the passionate heart of luk thung, from the early days of pleng
settlement to the earliest civilization and gives a fresh appraisal of talat, pleng phudee and pleng lae, forerunners of the LT style, to the
early hunters and gatherers, and of the first rice farmers. emergence of legendary stars like Surapon Sombatchareon in the
A new chronology reveals the dynamic social changes of the John Charles Clewley 1950s, the Golden Era of the 1970s, electronic luk thung of the
Bronze Age, and the rapid rise of early states that followed.The 1980s, the luk thung Isaan and maw lum sing revolution, the 1990s
outstanding art of the Bronze Age, as seen in painted ceramic vessels luk thung revival and the current crop of LT megastars.
a thousand years earlier than those from Ban Chiang, is portrayed John Clewley is a former lecturer of Chulalongkorn University.
as is the wealth of Iron Age chiefs who contributed so much to the He writes the ‘World beat’ column for the Bangkok Post and is the
foundation of the Kingdoms of Angkor and Dvaravati. In the far Southeast Asia correspondent/photographer for the UK-based
268 pages, 232 x 170 mm ‘World Music’ magazine, Songlines, as well as contributing chapters
Paperback, 500 colour illustrations
south, we find early cities founded along the Southern Silk Road,
240 pages, 240 x 170 mm on the music ofThailand, Bangkok, Laos and Cambodia for both the
ISBN 978 974 9863 91 6 bringing exotic ideas and goods through seaborne trade. Above all,
Paperback, over 240 illustrations Rough Guide toWorld Music and the Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular
the authors present the rich cultural heritage of the Thai people. ISBN 978 974 9863 74 9
Music of the World.
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T his authoritative guide covers the history and art of the 13th
and 14th century Sukhothai, often consider the ‘classic’ period
of Thai art. Situated in the fertileYom River basin of north-
central Thailand the guide covers the cities of Sukhothai, Si Satchanalai
B etween 1351 and 1767
AD, Ayutthaya, capital
of Siam was one of
the most important trading
centres in Southeast Asia,
F ormal relations between
Siam and the Vatican date to
1669 when Pope Clement
IX sent a papal brief to King
Narai. Informal relations began
and Kamphaeng Phet.
renowned throughout the earlier with the arrival of the
As well as surveying over 80 temples in the three sites and highlight-
200 pages, world for its wealth and Portuguese and their priests. King 146 pages,
ing masterpieces from related museums, the author discusses the art 253 x 182 mm 253 x 182 mm
248 pages, 240 x 170 mm beauty. Narai responded with two mis-
Paperback, 395 colour
and architecture of the period, with a special section on ceramics. Hardback Hardback
Derick Garnier traces the sions to Rome but only the second
illustrations Dawn F Rooney has lived and worked in Thailand for 30 years and is 99 colour illustrations 91 colour images
ISBN 974 8225 60 7 history of the city and the arrived in late 1688.The events ISBN 974 8225 68 2
14 plans and maps an expert in Southeast Asian Art. She has a PhD in ceramics.
ISBN 978 974 9863 42 8 Chao Phraya river which was behind these missions are related
so essential to its trade, in a by historian, Michael Smithies,
PAST LIVES OF THE BUDDHA text which is scholarly and assisted by the former Apostolic
Wat Si Chum – Art,Architecture and Inscriptions entertaining. Nuncio of Bangkok, Mgr. Bressan.
ume, a team of experts presents the latest evidence and new solutions.
Peter Skilling, M. L. Pattaratorn
Chirapravati, Pierre Pichard,
Prapod Assavavirulhakarn,
This superb study invites us to look atWat Si Chum in a whole new
light. Rather than a rather squat, blocky building, we can now imag-
ine it as one-fifth of a fantastic tower. Rather than wondering why
F or over 500 years Thai mother-of-pearl inlay has developed
a distinctive and beautiful style. Used for a wide variety of
decorative purposes – doors and windows for temples,
palace thrones and precious objects such as monks' alm bowls or
& Santi Pakdeekham boxes – the book illustrates the best examples of mother-of-pearl
the Jataka slabs were "hidden away", we can view them as intrinsic
to a very ambitious project of religious construction.This revised inlay from the Ayutthaya period onwards, combining history with
296 pages, 230 x 250 mm
view of the building raises new questions about Sukhothai's history. 184 pages, 210 x 240 mm, superlative photography.
Hardback, with 390 colour illustrations
Hardback, over 300 colour illustrations
and 30 plans and maps
ISBN 974 8225 63 1
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Dawn F. Rooney
With contributions by Krisda Pinsri &
Pariwat Thammapreechakorn
Photography by Robert McLeod
T he myths and legends of the Khmers displayed in low
reliefs in all the major temples in Cambodia,Thai-
land and Laos are examined in depth and richly illus-
trated in this authoritative volume by authorVittorio
Roveda. Stories of the gods and human actors in the great
epics of the Mahabharata, Ramayana and the Puranas are
262 pages, 300 x 245 mm,
brought to life in greater detail than ever before. A new em-
Hardback, 300 colour illustration phasis is given to Buddhist visual narratives of the life of the
ISBN 978 974 9863 88 6 544 pages, 240 x 170 mm Buddha and the Jatakas. In addition, unusual animal and hu-
Hardback
2,000 colour illustrations
manoid creatures on the cusp between myth and fantasy, are
illustrated.
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Claude Jacques & Philippe Lafond 152 pages, 210 x 275 mm, Hardback
Over 200 duotone illustrations
ISBN 974 8225 80 1
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CAMBODIAN DANCE
Celebration of the Gods
Denise Heywood
Denise Heywood
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The Moon PrinceSS early landScaPeS of MyanMar
Memories of the Shan States
Elizabeth H. Moore
Sao Nang Mya Sanda has, at the wonderful
age of 80, graced us with a remarkable The cornucopia of newly published dis-cover-
memoir that rides on history’s elephantine ies, skillfully woven together with more well-
Sanda Simms known material, makes this essential reading
back out of Burma’s northern hills and
across the world... Its reach extends far from for those interested in the early history of
the Shan mountains to touch on matters of Myanmar and mainland Southeast Asia. As
great historical and social importance - and such, it is a landmark that one hopes will en-
272 pages, 240 x 170 mm
matters of the swelling heart as well. Paperback, over 400 colour
courage similar publications.
310 pages, 240 x 170 mm Paul Dorsey and 60 b/w illustrations Donald Stadtner
Paperback, 162 b/w illustrations The Nation, March 2, 2008 with 44 maps and plans Journal of the Siam Society Vol. 97, 2009
ISBN 978 974 9863 37 4 ISBN 974 9863 31 3
Susan Conway
early photographs, never before published, document life in the
courts and in the hill regions of Shan dominion. Textile historian
Susan Conway focuses on dress in the Shan states as well as on
historical chronicles, to define a fascinating people of old Burma.
F or centuries the golden stupa of the
Shwedagon, the pagoda enshrining the sa-
cred hairs of the Buddha, has dominated
the landscape of Rangoon becoming the spiritual
symbol of the entire Burmese nation. Few other
scholar U Win Pe discuss the history of the
stupa, illustrated by many old pictures and plans,
while a typical visit is captured in photographs by
Hansjörg Mayer.
212 pages, 280 x 215 mm
Hardback Over 300 colour illustrations
Lavish illustrations bring to life a rich cultural tradition of countries have a shrine such as this, ancient yet
ISBN 974 9863 06 2 mainland Southeast Asia. so much a part of today.
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ManTleS of MeriT The SecreTS of SouTheaST
Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India and aSian TexTileS
Bangladesh Myth, Status and the Supernatural
David W. & Barbara G. Fraser The James H W Thompson
288 pages, 280 x 215 mm Foundation Symposium Papers
Hardback, 650 colour illustrations Edited by Jane Puranananda
ISBN 974 9863 01 1
beauty, technical virtuosity and their integral role in Through The Thread of TiMe
the Chin effort to achieve merit in this life and the Southeast Asian Textiles
next. The inter-relationships between the Chin and
The James H W Thompson 182 pages, 275 x 217 mm,
their neighbours are also discussed. Paperback
Winner of the Millia Davenport Publication Symposium Papers
220 full colour illustrations
Award, 2006 for the best book on costume and the R. Edited by Jane Puranananda ISBN 974 8225 76 3
L. Shep Book Award, 2007 as the best book on ethnic
textiles.
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oxford-duden PicTorial
oxford river bookS engliSh-Thai dicTionary
engliSh-Thai dicTionary
866 pages, 242 x 162 mm
Hardback, over 30,000 line illustrations
Revised in 2009 with ISBN 974 8900 75 4
3,000 new words and phrases.
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