GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE
Resources for Further Academic Investigation
Video made by Cambridge elementary students at The King Open School in 2008:
WEBSITES
Free Rice: www.freerice.com Get smart and give rice!
Cambodian History:
The Yale Cambodian Genocide Program: www.yale.edu/cgp/
www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/thefluteplayer/special_kiernan.html
www.khmerstudies.org
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1243892.stm
www.culturalprofiles.net/Cambodia/Directories/Cambodia_Cultural_Profile/-36.html
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia
Boston Area Organizations:
Primary Source: www.primarysource.org
Cambridge recently became a partnering school district with Primary Source, a local non-profit that promotes history and humanities education through global knowledge and experience for K-12 teachers. There are many wonderful programs and educational resources in the Primary Source library (Watertown) that are available to all Cambridge teachers.
harpswellfoundation.org
Founded by MIT Professor & Author Alan Lightman: he has built a school in the village of Tramung Chrum, 50 miles from Phnom Penh and has donated a dormitory to house college girls because they can’t attend college and live in temples, as the boys do.
www.angkordance.org
The Angkor Dance Troupe in Lowell, MA
www.huntalternatives.org
The Demand Abolition Program at The Hunt Alternatives Fund
www.bithar.org
The Boston Initiative to Advance Human Rights
www.mingagroup.org
Local teens fighting the global sex trade of children
www.joinercenter.umb.edu
The Joiner Center for the Study of War & Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
Recent Documentary & Feature Films:
Redlight: Human Trafficking in Cambodia
www.redlightthemovie.com
Holly: a feature film about human trafficking
www.redlightchildren.org
Enemies of the People
Truth and Reconciliation for the Khmer Rouge regime. Winner of the 2010 Special Jury Prize at The Sundance Film Festival.
www.enemiesofthepeoplemovie.com
A Drop In The Bucket: Access to clean water in Cambodia
www.adropinthebucketfilm.com
The Flute Player: Arn Chorn-Pond
View the documentary online: www.cambodianlivingarts.org/articles/fluteplayeronline
www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/thefluteplayer/update.html
www.teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/flute/latest_news/index.asp?article=man
New Year Baby: Socheata Poeuv
www.newyearbaby.net
www.khmerlegacies.org
Monkey Dance: Cambodian-American teens growing up in Lowell, MA
www.monkey-dance.com
Video’s from 1920’s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKMcmT5JAZU
Video’s from 1920’s Dancers at Angkor Wat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLQ1_SDksE
Video of main temple at Angkor Wat today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WZf4sKOAME
Preserving Cambodian Musical History:
www.cambodianlivingarts.org
www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/thefluteplayer/special_masters.html
Blogs:
Best-selling Cambodian Author, Loung Ung’s informative blog
www.loungung.com
Helping Women & Children in Cambodia:
The Somaly Mam Foundation: www.somaly.org
www.girlsbeambitious.org
www.brightfuturekids.org
http://www.offthematintotheworld.org/sevachallenge
www.afesip.org/
www.cambodianchildrensfund.org/index.html
www.heifercambodia.org
Cambodiashope.org
Buy Chocolates to help Cambodian children:
www.lesleyslifeissweet.com
High Tech in Cambodia:
www.cambodiapride.org (Elaine Negroponte’s Organization, MIT)
www.laptop.org (One Laptop Per Child, Nicholas Negroponte, MIT)
http://enews.tufts.edu/stories/031207ComputersinCambodia.htm (Computers In Cambodia, Constantin Sabet D’Acre, Tufts University.)
Cambodian English Language Newspapers:
www.cambodiadaily.com (Founded by Bernie Krisher, Director of AAfC)
www.phnompenhpost.com
Human Rights and Judiciary:
www.csdcambodia.org (The Center for Social Development)
www.licadho.org
www.ccc-cambodia.org (Cooperation Committee for Cambodia)
http://www.cdri.org.kh/ (Cambodia Development Resource Institute)
http://www.cdpcambodia.org (Cambodia’s Defender Project)
Landmines:
www.icbl.org (The International Campaign to Ban Landmines)
www.hrw.org/landmines (Human Right Watch: Landmines Campaign)
www.landminesurvivors.org
www.physiciansforhumanrights.org
www.landmines.org (Adopt-A-Minefield)
www.cpi.org (Clear Path International)
http://clearpathinternational.org/cpiblog/archives/000785.php (frisbee campaign!)
Peace Art Projects Cambodia:
turning weapons into sculptural art:
www.sashaconstable.com/cambodia_papc.php
Bringing Baseball to Cambodia:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-cambodia16feb18,0,136914,full.story
Et Cetera:
www.friendlyplanet.org (Founded by Michael Hawley @ MIT)
www.cycleforschools.com (Brown University student cycles through Southeast Asia in order to build schools!)
Maps:
http://www.unhcr.org/publ/PUBL/3dee2c3e7.pdf
http://www.canbypublications.com/maps/camroad.htm
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/kh.htm
Painting Elephants in Southeast Asia: Trunk-Eye Coordination?
Painting Elephant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FGEJKQzaMA
Chiang Mai, Thailand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNODzXoJuJM
Flower bouquet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-9YDCirUU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACjjot9PNr4
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Dith Pran on March 30, 2008 and want to share this information in celebration of his remarkable life:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/nyregion/31dith.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/30/AR2008033000754.html
http://www.loungung.com/acorn.php?page=blog#entry136
BOOK LIST
For Children:
Silent Lotus by Jeanne M. Lee (Farrar, Stauss & Giroux, 1994.)
The Caged Birds of Phnom Penh by Frederick Lipp (Holiday House, 2001.)
Judge Rabbit and the Tree Spirit: A Folktale from Cambodia (bilingual) by Cathy Spagnoli & Lina Mao Wall (Children’s Book Press, 1991.)
A Song for Cambodia by Michelle Lord (2008.)
Little Sap & Monsieur Rodin by Michelle Lord (2008.)
Angkat: The Cambodian Cinderella by Jewell Reinhart Coburn (Shen’s Books, 1998.)
Cambodian Folk Stories from the Gatiloke retold by Muriel Paskin Carrison from a translation by Kong Chhean (Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1987.)
Cambodia in Pictures by Stacy taus-Bolstad & Margaret J. Goldstein (2005.)
Cambodia: Enchantment of the World by Kras Sarah Louise (Children’s Press, 2005.)
Cambodia: Countries of the World by Marc Tayler Nobleman (2002.)
Cambodia: Cultures of the World by Sean Sheehan & Barbara Cooke (2007.)
Children of the World – Kradje – A Child of Cambodia by Herve Giraud & Jean-Charles Rey (2005.)
The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho (Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991.)
Teenage Refugees from Cambodia Speak Out by Stephanie St. Pierre (1995.)
Children of the River by Linda Crew (Laurel-Leaf Books, 1989.)
Books for older folks:
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
by Somaly Mam (Random House, 2008.)
First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung (Harper Collins, 2000.)
Lucky Child by Loung Ung (Harper Collins, New York, 2005.)
When the War Was Over by Elizabeth Becker (Simon and Schuster, 1986.)
Sideshow by William Shawcross (Simon and Schuster, 1979.)
The Quality of Mercy by William Shawcross (Simon and Schuster, 1984.)
Stay Alive, My Son by Pin Yathay with John Man (Simon and Schuster, 1987.)
When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him (W.W. Norton, 2000.)
River of Time by Jon Swain (St. Martin’s Press, 1995.)
The Mekong by Milton Osborne (Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2000.)
Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land by Henry Kamm (Arcade, 1998.)
Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey by Haing S. Ngor with Roger Warner (MacMillan, 1987.)
The Gate by Francois Bizot (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.)
The Murderous Revolution by Stuart Fox-Martin and Bunhaeng Ung (Tamarind Press, 1986.)
Cambodia: Year Zero by Francois Ponchaud (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.)
A History of Cambodia by David P. Chandler (Westview Press, 1992.)
How Pol Pot Came to Power by Ben Kiernan (Verso, 1985.)
Cambodian Witness by Someth May (Random House, 1986.)
The Death and Life of Dith Pran by Sidney Schanberg (Penguin Books, 1985.)
Cambodia 1975-1978 edited by Karl D. Jackson (Princeton University Press, 1989.)
Brother Enemy by Nayan Chanda (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.)
Brother Number One by David P. Chandler (Westview Press, 1992.)
Beyond the Horizon by Laurence Picq (St. Martin’s Press, 1989.)
After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide by Craig Etcheson (Praeger Publishers, 2005.)
Kampuchea Diary 1983-1986 by Jacques Bekaert (DD Books, 1987.)A Blessing Over Ashes by Adam Fifield (Perennial Books, 2001)
Angkor by George Coedes (Oxford University Press, 1986.)
Khmer: The Lost Empire of Cambodia by Thierry Zephir (Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998.)
Cambodian Culture since 1975 edited by May Ebihara, Carol Mortland, and Judy Ledgerwood (Cornell, 1994)
