Resources
Suggested Reading
- In this clear and concise volume, author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian nation. Praised by the Journal of Asian Studies as an “original...
- One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into...
- Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, "The Killing Fields", lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which...
- Sinat is a young boy from Cambodia. He learns to play a thousand-year-old string instrument from its last great living master. This story is based on the real-life experience of a Cambodian boy named Sinat, whose actual...
Websites
- Created by past CLA intern and PhD student, Trent Walker, this website offers you a chance to learn about—and listen to—the Cambodian Dharma song tradition, or smot, a uniquely expressive form of Buddhist chant...
- Commissioned by Cambodian Living Arts and produced by John Burt, Where Elephants Weep was the first Cambodian rock opera. Telling the story of a modern Khmer love story, the opera’s musical score, composed by Dr. Him...
Films
- The Flute Player is the story of Arn Chorn Pond, a man who has determined to keep Cambodia's traditional music alive. His organization, Cambodian Living Arts [CLA], is at the forefront of the country's cultural...
- "The Killing Fields" shows the story of Cambodia's tragic recent history through the eyes of one remarkable man. At times brutal and at others uplifting this film helps to show why there is so much left to be...
