CAMBODIA
Resources for Learning & Understanding
For those who want to understand Cambodia — its ancient beauty, its devastating history, and its extraordinary resilience — these are the books, documentaries, and organizations I return to again and again. May they open a door for you, as they have for so many others.
Documentaries
The Missing Picture — Rithy Panh
Angkor — National Geographic Specials www.ngm.nationalgeographic.com
Bombhunters www.bombhunters.com
Enemies of the People www.enemiesofthepeoplemovie.com
Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
New Year Baby — a documentary by Socheata Poeuv
Pol Pot Biography www.biography.com
A River Changes Course — Kalyanee Mam
Books
Essential Reading
When the War Was Over — Elizabeth Becker Simon & Schuster, New York, 1986
Cambodia: A Report from a Stricken Land — Henry Kamm Arcade Publications, New York, 1998
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia — William Shawcross Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979
The Death and Life of Dith Pran — Sydney H. Schanberg Viking Press, New York, 1985
Never Fall Down — Patricia McCormick
Further Reading
Brother Enemy: The War after the War — Nayan Chanda Harcourt Press, San Diego, California, 1986
A History of Cambodia — David Chandler Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 2000
Cambodia Cultures since 1975: Homeland and Exile — May M. Ebihara, Carol A. Mortland & Judy Ledgerwood Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1994
After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide — Craig Etcheson Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas, 2005
Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation Building — Evan Gottesman Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2004
Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory — Helen Ibbitson Jessup & Thierry Zephir Thames and Hudson Press, London, England, 1997
Lost Goddesses: The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History — Trudy Jacobson Nias Press, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
How Pol Pot Came to Power: A History of Communism in Kampuchea — Ben Kiernan Verso Press, London, 1985
Cambodian Stories and Gatiloke — Muriel Paskin Carrison & the Venerable Kong Chhean Tuttle Publishing, Boston, Rutland and Tokyo, 1987
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors — Edited by Dith Pran & Kim DePaul Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1997
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide — Samantha Power HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2002
Sacred Angkor: The Carved Reliefs of Angkor Wat — Vittorio Roveda River Books Press, Bangkok, Thailand, 2007
The Chinese in Cambodia — William Willmott University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, Canada, 1967
Helpful Organizations & Websites
Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights www.licadho-cambodia.org
Cambodia Living Arts www.CambodiaLivingArts.org
Cambodian Women Crisis Center www.cwcc.org.kh
Documentation Center of Cambodia www.dccam.org
International Campaign to Ban Landmines www.icbl.org
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence www.ncadv.org