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Title: A mother daughter culture clash: Chandra Touch has struggled to make her mother, a Cambodian immigrant, understand her American Lifestyle and ambitions.(VOICES)
Author: Chandra Touch
Publication: New York Times Upfront (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 17, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 140Issue: 2Page: 30(1)

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With over three million copies in print, CultureShock! is a bestselling series of culture and etiquette guides covering countless destinations around the world.For anyone at risk of culture shock, whether a tourist or a long-term resident, CultureShock! provides a sympathetic and fun-filled crash course on the do's and don'ts in foreign cultures.Fully updated and sporting a fresh new look, the revised editions of these books enlighten and inform through such topics as language, food and entertaining, social customs, festivals, relationships, and business tips. CultureShock! books are packed with useful details on transportation, taxes, finances, accommodation, health, food and drink, clothes, shopping, festivals, and much, much more.
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extremely informative
My son went to Cambodia last year and didn't know the culture. After reading this book, he discovered that he had been embarrassingly impolite on his visit. He returned to Cambodia this year and felt very well informed thanks to this insightful little book which he read over the holidays from cover to cover. ... Read more

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Moving beyond racial designations of "black," "white," and "Indian," this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "southernness" by demonstrating the extent to which it exists as a fabric of many cultures. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the ways people "perform" their cultural identities through, among other things, dress, dance, and family tradition. Contributors identify 88 major ethnic groups that have lived in the South from the Mississippian Period (1000-1600 C.E.) to the present. ... Read more

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Great Book On Little Known Subject
Steven Morris's work on this book is amazing. I have such a better understanding of the conflict between Cambodia and Vietnam from the early '70s to 1989. North Vietnam, China and the USSR are culpable regarding the victory of Pol Pot in 1975, and not American bombing as so many Stalinists try to claim. N. Vietnam had their eyes on Cambodia all along, but had to buy their time during the conflict with the U.S.

Superbly researched and carefully argued
This book is undoubtedly one of the few "must have" books on Vietnam and Cambodia. The author has produced a very carefully argued and superbly researched analysis of the Vietnamese relationship with Cambodiaand the Vietnamese relationships with the Soviet Union and China. It showshow our conventional thinking in terms of states only pursuing theirnational security or economic interests doesn't explain why the Vietnameseand the Khmers Rouges each provoked their larger neighbors (The KhmersRouges provoked Vietnam and Vietnam provoked China). The idea that the weakcan provoke the stronger goes against our "common sense"understanding of how states behave, but it obviously did happen in thesecases. Morris also has a very good writing style (I even found the moreabstract conceptual discussion in the introduction and conclusion quiteeasy to follow) and the narrative flows quite nicely. He has alsointroduced the concept of "hyperMaoism" to explain the outlook ofthe Khmers Rouges, which is something that I find quite insightful. Hisresearch in Soviet archives also brought forth some fascinatingrevelations, regarding how little the Vietnamese leadership knew andunderstood about the motives of the Khmers Rouges leaders. And the Sovietdocuments also bring completely new information on how Vietnam's relationswith China broke down during the 1970s.I had read every book published onthe Vietnamese communists and the Khmers Rouges, but this book has taughtme a lot that I didn't know. The tone of the work is quite dispassionate,and its approach completely objective, as Morris tries to get inside thethinking of all of the parties to the conflict. Highly recommended.

Many assumed 'facts' went uncheck
After so many years of digging through the Soviet archives, Mr. Morris forgot to double and triple check his supposedly 'facts' and got carried away with believing everything he read from the basements in Moscow.

The problem with Morris analysis is that it left out the Beijing angle. The Vietnam-Cambodian war was driven more from China than from Vietnam andthe Soviet.The CCP has a lot of influence and control over this war whichwas barely accounted for in this book.

There's also another problemwith an analysis based solely on ideological ground i.e. communist regimewages war because they can, because they are evil, warlike andundemocratic.Besides being not very useful in pedagogical terms, this ofcourse left out the more important historical analysis that Vietnam andCambodia has a long history of many small wars.And the Vietnam-Cambodianwar could be viewed as an attempt to continue Vietnam's territorialexpansion that began from the 17th century.

Mr. Morris assessments in thebook should be read in light of his other 'hysterical' pronouncement ofhaving found a document in Soviet archives showing that Hanoi had deceivedon POWs.The timing of his finding was also perfectly coincide with animpending congressional vote on improving US-Vietnam relationship.

T.N.

Many assumed 'facts' went uncheck
After so many years of digging through the Soviet archives, Mr. Morris forgot to double and triple check his supposedly 'facts' and got carried away with believing everything he read from the basements in Moscow.

The problem with Morris analysis is that it left out the Beijing angle. The Vietnam-Cambodian war was driven more from China than from Vietnam andthe Soviet.The CCP has a lot of influence and control over this war whichwas barely accounted for in this book.

There's also another problemwith an analysis based solely on ideological ground i.e. communist regimewages war because they can, because they are evil, warlike andundemocratic.Besides being not very useful in pedagogical terms, this ofcourse left out the more important historical analysis that Vietnam andCambodia has a long history of many small wars.And the Vietnam-Cambodianwar could be viewed as an attempt to continue Vietnam's territorialexpansion that began from the 17th century.

Mr. Morris assessments in thebook should be read in light of his other 'hysterical' pronouncement ofhaving found a document in Soviet archives showing that Hanoi had deceivedon POWs.

T.N.

Well-documented history followed by a bold assessment.
A scholarly analysis of the history behind the 1978-89 Vietnamese invasion and occupation of Cambodia, followed by the author's brutally frank assessment of the consequences.As the author states, a final assessmentis premature, but recent events do indeed cause the reader to wonder howlong the Vietnamese will continue to be pleased with the tactics of its"clients".Readers will also want to review "Falling Out ofTouch" by Goscha and Engelbert for another look at historicalrelations between the Vietnamese and Cambodian communists. ... Read more

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This is a question that still bluntly assaults every reporter and cameraman covering war anywhere in the world.When to stop?Where to stop?Ever to stop?We lived with that challenge all during the war, yet so many of us felt invulnerable; was it innocence, arrogance, the intoxication of war?We were objective reporters, weren't we, not combat soldiers.We gave ourselves exemptions from death.We armored ourselves with naivet¨¦.

In all, this book is a tribute to all slain journalists who brought the war to your living room; some caught in a firefight, some shot out of the sky, some who vanished, some executed.Yet even while the shooting was going on, there was a war about the war, about whether the United States had misread history and the dying and killing was all a waste.Those post-mortems would come later, too late to end the killing. ... Read more

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Shines the light on a forgotten corner of history
Everyone knows about the war Vietnam, but few remember that the United States battled the Viet Cong and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia as well. And even fewer remember that in just six short months in 1970, over two dozen journalists were killed while reporting on this forgotten corner of the Vietnam War, many of whom were captured and tortured to death by enemy forces.

T. Jeff Williams provides an illuminating, ground-level view of Cambodia during the war and what it was like to be a correspondent when so many of your colleagues would go out to report the story and just simply never come back. But it is Kurt Volkert's section of the book that really shines.

Volkert gives a factual and detailed, yet intensely personal look at efforts by him and others to investigate and locate the graves of five newsmen who were killed chasing the scoop south of Phnom Penh. He chronicles the ups and downs, the sadness, the frustrations, the detective work, and the ultimate sense of closure that comes from helping scour the Cambodian countryside for five journalists and friends buried in shallow graves twenty years earlier.

All in all, this is an excellent book on a topic that has received almost no attention over the years. Well recommended for anyone interested in journalism, Cambodia, or the Vietnam War.

Fascinating Book!
This book was recommended to me by a friend and I found it fascinating. The first part, written by AP/CBS News correspondent Jeff Williams details the intricate history of Cambodia as it struggles against forces from within and without during the turbulant 60's and 70's.Part of the book is a fascinating portrait of what it's like to cover a war in Asia, specifically Cambodia. At times the country was terrifying,at other times comedic and at others beautiful, graceful and exotic. Under the pressure of competition, journalists jump in cars and race off down dangerous roads looking for action so they can scoop the other networks. During a 2 month span in 1970, 25 of those journalists who drove down those lonely roads didn't come back.

The second part of the book is a description by Kurt Volkert of his feelings loss and deep sadness for his murdered comrads and his persistant and amazing detective work in locating their bodies in the countryside TWENTY YEARS LATER. How he did it, what he thought of the system that forced journalists to risk their lives for a story is gripping stuff.

This is a great read!

What Happened Out There?
During the Vietnam war, Cambodia seemed to be a forgotten country. But this book shows what it was like to be a journalist on the front lines in what must have been terrifying times.The book recounts how the war in Vietnam spread to Cambodia in 1970 and how 25 foreign journalists reporting the war there were killed by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnamese.

The book is in two sections. In the first one, T. Jeff Williams describes the historical events that led Cambodia into a bloody conflict with Vietnam, its ancient enemy, and describes the 1970 coup that overthrew Prince Sihanouk, the country's leader. He then describes how it was to cover the war, and how so many journalists were captured and killed in just a few months.

In the second section, Kurt Volkert describes how a CBS and a NBC television team were captured and killed. And then how in 1992, 22 years later, a U.S. Army special team arrived to look for the missing newsmen. Mr. Volkert raises the question of why the TV journalists were in danger so often, and whether executives in New York were pushing them too much.

I highly recommend this book for the inside story it provides on how newsmen cover war and how dangerous it can be. ... Read more

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This book has two foci: how Cambodians with a refugee background manage their new life in Aotearoa/New Zealand and how an identity as a Khmer-Kiwi transnational community has developed.Religious practice, organisation, and leadership became the main driving forces for asserting Khmer community identity in diaspora. Collective memory was harnessed to deal with shared cultural bereavement, and the quest for belonging lent momentum to the community?s development and management of its identity. Khmer Theravada Buddhism was important in terms of spiritual wellbeing, but also served as a platform for various community developments which contributed to the creation of new ethnoscapes and identities within the New Zealand social context.An important contribution of the thesis relates to the issues of the positionality of the researcher, in this case a Cambodian who came as a refugee researching his own community.The advantages and problems of being both an insider as a Cambodian and community leader and an outsider as an educated academic attempting to maintain objectivity, is outlined in detail in the thesis. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Women and Language, published by George Mason University on March 22, 1996. The length of the article is 3599 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Cambodian classical dances express emotions and legends through the complex and elaborate movements of the eyes, head, torso and fingers. An interview of a Cambodian family who survived the systematic genocide in Cambodia reveals the social and cultural significance of the dance. The sacred folklore and rituals of Cambodian Buddhism and Khmer mythology are included in a classical repertory of dances and intricate movements that embodies the Cambodian classical dances.

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Title: Body, memory and wordless stories: the Sam women and Cambodian classical dance training.
Author: Judith Hamera
Publication: Women and Language (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1996
Publisher: George Mason University
Volume: v19Issue: n1Page: p64(5)

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This book offers everyone the opportunity to enjoy going back in time, to explore the Art, Religion, Culture, and Food of my ancestors through eleven centuries. Part of this book explains how the Angkoreans prepared barbecue, noodles, beers and rice wine in their own way. The step-by-step recipes are spectacular and easy, from assembly to presentation. ... Read more