THIRD EDITION, released August 10, 2024 - 203 pages, over 200 color photographs
Phnom Penh Post, March 28, 2024: “Cornelia Bagg Srey is recognized for her extensive work in preserving Cambodian cultural heritage, particularly through her writing and research... As an author, her notable contributions include A Pocket Guide to Cambodian Silk and Through the Eyes of a Queen - the Women of the Royal Court at Angkor…” https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-in-depth/traditional-threads-reviving-the-chorabab
The author is one of the last Angkorian scholars to use Sanskrit in her research methodology, and the first to use linguistic analysis. She brings the queens to life with a lively, readable history, with over 200 color photographs.
Scholars have written only about the men of Angkor; this is the first book about the women. The author has used ten sources to open a window onto the world of the queens: inscriptions, Coedes’ Genealogy of the Kings of Cambodia, rituals still performed today and royal paraphernalia still in use, surviving stone and brick structures, sculpture, archeological findings and airborne laser scanning, Sanskrit loan words, the account of a Chinese emissary to Angkor, and royal textiles still made today.
This book is not available in Cambodia. If you’re planning a trip to Angkor Wat, buy it from Amazon and take it with you. If you’re planning to buy silk, or look at silk in museums, also take A Pocket Guide to Cambodian Silk.