Lao Folktales

Download or read book Lao Folktales written by Wayuphā Thotsa and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection seeks to fill a gap in folktale literature by offering tales of the Lao. Organized by broad themes and types, it offers more than 50 tales, including creation myths, animal tales, Buddhist Jataka and moral stories, trickster tales, riddles, ghost stories, local legends and more from peoples on both sides of the Mekong River. In addition, the book includes general information about Lao geography, peoples, and history, as well as recipes, games crafts, color photos and line drawings.

Download or read book Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain written by Margaret Bateson-Hill and published by Zero to Ten. This book was released on 1998 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A greedy emperor demands an impossible task from Lao Lao, a peasant woman who makes beautiful shapes from paper. Includes instructions for making traditional Chinese paper-cuts.

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Download or read book Lao Folktales written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Sticky Mess written by Nor Sanavongsay and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young monk keeps getting in trouble with the head of the monastery who thinks the boy can't do anything right. Finally, the young boy decides to turn the tables with the help of a red rooster and a little bit of a sticky snack called mieng. What happens next has become the stuff of legend for hundreds of years! This is the hilarious tale of cleverness and ingenuity for children ages four and up.

Download or read book Mother's Beloved written by ʻUthin Bunnyāvong and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rather than writing through an ideological lens, Outhine focuses on the passions and foibles of ordinary people. Their good luck, disappointments, and plain but poignant conversations reveal the subtle textures of Lao culture. The tragedy of war and the threat of environmental degradation are themes woven into his stories.".

Download or read book Invasion of Laos, 1971 written by Robert D. Sander and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of warfare, Lam Son 719. The objective: to sever the North Vietnamese Army’s main logistical artery, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, at its hub, Tchepone in Laos, an operation that, according to General Creighton Abrams, could have been the decisive battle of the war, hastening the withdrawal of U.S. forces and ensuring the survival of South Vietnam. The outcome: defeat of the South Vietnamese Army and heavy losses of U.S. helicopters and aircrews, but a successful preemptive strike that met President Nixon’s near-term political objectives. Author Robert Sander, a helicopter pilot in Lam Son 719, explores why an operation of such importance failed. Drawing on archives and interviews, and firsthand testimony and reports, Sander chronicles not only the planning and execution of the operation but also the maneuvers of the bastions of political and military power during the ten-year effort to end Communist infiltration of South Vietnam leading up to Lam Son 719. The result is a picture from disparate perspectives: the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations; the South Vietnamese government led by President Nguyen Van Thieu; and senior U.S. military commanders and army aviators. Sander’s conclusion is at once powerful and persuasively clear. Lam Son 719 was doomed in both the planning and execution—a casualty of domestic and international politics, flawed assumptions, incompetent execution, and the resolve of the North Vietnamese Army. A powerful work of military and political history, this book offers eloquent testimony that “failure, like success, cannot be measured in absolute terms.”