Buku ini merupakan kajian komprehensif sosial budaya yang pertama tentang bagian dunia yang mempesona, Laos. la menjadi objek kajian utama buku ini, menempati sentral Asia Tenggara daratan. Dikelilingi oleh batas-batas negara-negara tetangga, termasuk Cina, sehingga ketika kita bicara tentang Laos, maka wilayah-wilayah negara-negara di sekitarnya akan tersentuh. Berbagai kajian budaya dan masya…
This book is an objective appraisal of the events that have rocked Laos ever since it achieved independence, with particular em- phasis on the period between the two Geneva conferences (1954 and 1961). The normal difficulties of every newly inde- pendent nation trying to consolidate its national government were aggravated by the constant interference of its neighbors. Communist North Vietnam ha…
This book aims to record this privileged moment of an immense effort made throughout the country to discard the old order of things. The time has not yet come to draw lessons from this experience, but the time is ripe for recording what has been the experience of a society dormant for many centuries and brutally thrown into the maelstrom of history.