Stories about Literature in Mekong River
The dogs of SanglaburiJohn McMahon - dictater2 [261] When a motor cycle plows into a dog on a dark road in the mountians of thailand I find myself cared for by a women I cant communicate with.
Destinations:
Malaysia |
United Arab Emirates |
Burma |
Mekong River |
Cambodia |
Laos |
Thailand |
Japan
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Black Mercedes, Black Pajamas, Black HumorKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of "Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness", a biography of Cambodia's King Sihanouk.
Destinations:
Phnom Penh |
Cambodia
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Colonel CassandraKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of the biography of Edward Lansdale, model of The Ugly American and The Quiet American.
Destinations:
Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Baliem valey's mummiesCarlo Ottaviano Casana - cocasana [40] Wim Tok Mabel's mummy held by one of his descendant. Apparently the mummy is 362 years old. Wim Tok Mabel was a "big man" and everybody in the valley wanted his advices. Even nowadays somebody is...
Destinations:
Malaysia |
Indonesia |
Singapore |
Hong Kong |
Mekong River |
Cambodia |
Laos |
Burma |
Indochina |
Maldives |
Thailand
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The Lover: A Film and Book ReviewCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,110] "Very early in my life it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. I aged. This aging was brutal. It spread over my features, one by one. I saw this aging of my face with the same sort of...
Destinations:
Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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The Schizophrenic StateKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] A review of two books on wartime Cambodia. Michael Vickery's Cambodia 1975-1982 and Ben Kiernan's The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979.
Destinations:
Phnom Penh |
Cambodia
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Our Cassandra in SaigonKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused." -from The Quiet American. Review of Graham Greene's "The Quiet American".
Destinations:
Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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A Master of DelusionsKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] Review of what seems to be the only biography of Pol Pot extant.
Destinations:
Phnom Penh |
Cambodia
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A Lolita of the Far EastKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] The setting is colonial Vietnam. A man of thirty-two falls in love with a girl of fifteen-and-a-half, who lies and says that she's seventeen. He's rich; she's poor. Her father is dead and her elder...
Destinations:
Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Film Review: The Killing Fields and Swimming to CambodiaCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,110] For anyone interested in the 20th century history of Southeast Asia, the pairing of two excellent films, The Killing Fields and Swimming to Cambodia, is an enlightening experience. Although well past...
Destinations:
Phnom Penh |
Cambodia
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