Cultural sites of Burma, Thailand, and Cambodia / Jacques Dumarcay and Michael Smithies.

By:

Dumarcay, Jacques

Contributor(s):

Smithies, Michael, 1932-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Kuala Lumpur ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: xi, 127 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cmISBN:

9676530700
9789676530707

Subject(s):

Summary: Mainland South-East Asia has a considerable number of ancient cultural sites which are increasingly visited and appreciated by overseas travellers. Outstanding in Cambodia is the vast complex of Angkor which the recent political settlement has again put within the reach of many. Burma has its historical equivalent in Pagan and its more recent centre at Mandalay, where the court of the last Burmese king held sway. Thailand, formerly Siam, has an embarrassingly large choice of monumental architectural sites encompassing Chaiya in the south, Chiangsaen in the north, and Phnom Rung in the north-east, not forgetting the better known Sukhothai and Ayutthaya. Essentially, it is the religious structures which have survived and which are given prominence in this volume. Jacques Dumarcay and Michael Smithies have combined to bring the most important sites together in a single volume. Each is described and its salient features noted and placed in the general context of the country and the region.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Open Collection	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	FIRST CITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE	Open Collection	FCUC Library	959 DUM 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00004433

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-123) and index.

Mainland South-East Asia has a considerable number of ancient cultural sites which are increasingly visited and appreciated by overseas travellers. Outstanding in Cambodia is the vast complex of Angkor which the recent political settlement has again put within the reach of many. Burma has its historical equivalent in Pagan and its more recent centre at Mandalay, where the court of the last Burmese king held sway. Thailand, formerly Siam, has an embarrassingly large choice of monumental architectural sites encompassing Chaiya in the south, Chiangsaen in the north, and Phnom Rung in the north-east, not forgetting the better known Sukhothai and Ayutthaya. Essentially, it is the religious structures which have survived and which are given prominence in this volume. Jacques Dumarcay and Michael Smithies have combined to bring the most important sites together in a single volume. Each is described and its salient features noted and placed in the general context of the country and the region.

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