Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America (Asian America)
In 1975, after five years of devastation and upheaval caused by civil war, the Cambodian people welcomed the victorious communist Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot. Once in power, the new regime tightly closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese communists invaded Cambodia and defeated the Khmer Rouge, the world learned that during their control the Khmer Rouge had turned the country into "killing fields", in one of the most horrifying instances of genocide in history. Of an estimated population of 7 million people, about 1.5 million had been killed or had died of starvation, torture, or sickness. After the Vietnamese takeover, thousands of survivors of the Khmer Rouge, fearful of continuing war and a new communist regime, fled their homeland. Approximately 150,000 of them settled in the United States. This book documents the Cambodian refugee experience through nine powerful first-person narratives of men, women, and children who survived the holocaust and have begun new lives in America. The narrators come from varied socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds and include a former Buddhist monk, an unskilled factory worker, and a farm boy, all of whom are ethnic Cambodians; a middle-class Chinese Cambodian housewife and her daughter; and a Vietnamese Cambodian medical student. The refugees first speak of their lives before the Khmer Rouge. We get an intimate view of a distinct way of life that had evolved over 2,000 years as the refugees relate Cambodian views of life, death, rebirth, karma, love, marriage, and family-views deeply imbued with Buddhist concepts. Next, with sorrow and sometimes anger, they relive their traumatic survival of the Khmer Rouge,reflecting on the deaths of loved ones and the desecration of their culture. Finally, they retrace their hazardous escapes and journeys to the United States and talk candidly about their hopes, dreams, and fears as they continue the difficult adjustment to a new social and cultur
List Price: $ 30.95
Price: $ 13.85
Other posts like this, by keyword:
Photography:
Shooting & Selling Your Photos: The Complete Guide to Making Money with Your Photography ...
What is a good photography site that shows how to recreate certain pics? ...
Art of Colour Photography ...
Male Nude Photography- Michael Guard ...
Male Nude Photography- Naked Producers In Blue Frost, Kansas ...
Digital Landscape and Nature Photography For Dummies ...
Adonis: Masterpieces of Male Erotic Photography ...
Wedding Photography NOW!: A Fresh Approach to Shooting Modern Nuptials (A Lark Photography Book) ...
How do I get in the Travel Industry with no formal training, just the love of travel? ...
Build Fun Paper Cameras: Take Eye-Catching Pinhole Photos (A Lark Photography Book) ...
America:
How much money does a graphic designer make in America and are there requests for a movie poster designer? ...
Breaking News on Supplements & Nutrition – North America EU edition ...
Irish America Hall of Fame: Mary Higgins Clark ...
Constitution of the United States of America, with Bill of Rights and Subsequent Amendments Reviews ...
The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture) ...
Coming to America: Immigrants from Northern Europe ...
What region of the United States of America is best to live in? ...
The American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy (Cooking in America) ...
How many sports and sport federations are there in Europe and North America? ...
Justice League of America: Second Coming v. 5 ...
Cool:
Family-Style Meals at the Hali’imaile General Store Reviews ...
Effective Ski Coaching ...
My jeep cherokee sport overdrive works every other time i start the engine. What could this be? ...
Q&A: What determines if an airport is considered Regional or International? ...
Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) ...
Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age & Roman Europe ...
Coming to America: Immigrants from Northern Europe ...
Modern Medicine: The New World Religion: How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices ...
Smyrna man linked to half a dozen robberies in recent days ...
Vampire The Masquerade Volume 3: Blood and Loyalty (Vampire: The Masquerade) ...
images:
Family-Style Meals at the Hali’imaile General Store Reviews ...
Effective Ski Coaching ...
My jeep cherokee sport overdrive works every other time i start the engine. What could this be? ...
Q&A: What determines if an airport is considered Regional or International? ...
Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology) ...
Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age & Roman Europe ...
Coming to America: Immigrants from Northern Europe ...
Modern Medicine: The New World Religion: How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices ...
Smyrna man linked to half a dozen robberies in recent days ...
Vampire The Masquerade Volume 3: Blood and Loyalty (Vampire: The Masquerade) ...
Beyond:
Far Beyond the Field ...
Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights ...
The Back of Beyond: A Story About Lewis and Clark (Creative Minds Biographies Series) ...
New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art ...
How to Have a Baby on eBay: Your One-Stop Shopping Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond ...
The Health Gap: Beyond Pregnancy and Reproduction ...
Abiding Faith: Christianity Beyond Certainty, Anxiety, and Violence ...
Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Pragmatics & Beyond. New Series, 39) ...
The Suburb Beyond The Stars (Game of Sunken Places) ...
Planning for 100G & Beyond ...
Killing:
Killing Orders: A V. I. Warshawski Novels ...
How did we get from killing vampires and thinking that they were evil to loving them? ...
The Field Men: The SS Officers Who Led the Einsatzkommandos – the Nazi Mobile Killing Units (Schiffer Military History) ...
Local Briefs: Inmate admits killing ...
Fields:
Naturally Curious: A Photographic Field Guide and Month-by-Month Journey Through the Fields, Woods, and Marshes of New England Reviews ...
Fields of Blood: Book of War (Eden Odyssey D20) ...
Fields of Vision: Essays on Literature, Language, and Television Reviews ...
Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields (Personal Narratives of West Series) ...
Random Fields and Geometry (Springer Monographs in Mathematics) ...
The Field Guide: The Layout and Dimensions of Sports Fields ...
An Antarctic Mystery; or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields: A Sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ...
are all engineering fields mostly office work? ...
Voices:
Nashoba Regional hockey squad enjoys postseason play ...
Transgression As a Mode of Resistance: Rethinking Social Movement in an Era of Corporate Globalization Reviews ...
Ghostly Voices: Thirteen Texas Ghosts ...
What is the cartoon with the characters voices are brass instruments? ...
Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS ...
While the Locust Slept: A Memoir (Native Voices) ...
Women’s Voices from the Western Frontier (Women of the West) ...
Colombian singer Juanes brings his music and message to Denver ...
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers: Five Voices (Texas Pan American Series) Reviews ...
Telling Our Stories: The Lives of Latina Women (Latino Communities: Emerging Voices – Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues) ...
Asian:
The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb (New Approaches to Asian History) ...
Religion and Spirituality in Korean America (Asian American Experience) Reviews ...
Japanese Folded Patchwork: Techniques, Projects, and Designs of a Unique Asian Craft ...
Asian stars lend their support to quake relief at film awards ...
Asian stars lend their support to quake relief at film awards ...
The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music ...
A Year of Cooking Like Mummyji: Real British Asian Cooking for all Seasons ...
Bengal Tigers (Asian Animals) ...
Asian American Issues (Contemporary American Ethnic Issues) ...
English and Language Planning: A Southeast Asian Contribution ...
Nine:
Backstop: A Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings ...
The Careless Animal: Nine Ecological Detective Stories Reviews ...
The Celestine Prophecy: A Concise Guide to the Nine Insights Featuring Original Essays & Lectures by the Author ...
A Log Cabin Christmas: 9 Nine Romances of American Pioneer Christmases ...
The Language of Literature: Grade Nine: Writing Transparencies and Copymasters Reviews ...
The Classic Ten: The True Story of the Little Black Dress and Nine Other Fashion Favorites ...
Dust of Dreams: Book Nine of The Malazan Book of the Fallen ...
Survivor's:
Mothers of Incest Survivors: Another Side of the Story Reviews ...
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, 1906: By the Survivors and Rescuers ...
The Courage to Heal 4e: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 20th Anniversary Edition Reviews ...
Cambodian:
No comments:
Post a Comment