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The Foundation

The Mekong Press Foundation was initiated in 2005 by Trasvin Jittidecharak, the publisher of Silkworm Books, with the financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation. Its aim is to encourage and support the work of local scholars, writers, and publishing professionals in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and the other countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion. It was registered as non-profit organization in 2007.

Books published by Mekong Press are marketed and distributed internationally.

Mekong Press also holds seminars and training workshops on different aspects of book publishing, and helps find ways to overcome some of the huge challenges faced by small book publishers in the region.

Welcome to Mekong Press

Recent Book Reviews

Reinhard Hohler reviews The Enduring Sacred Landscapes of the Naga and Hero and Deity: Tran Hung Dao and the Resurgence of Popular Religion in Viet Nam.

On Books, Teaching and Nationalism

Teaching Against the Grain: Benedict Anderson reflects on the modern nation-state as an imagined construct, the value of pedagogy and the nature of being human.

The Riddle of Nationalism: The recent Thai translation of Benedict Anderson's seminal Imagined Communities could help redefine the Thai nation.

IPA Protests Ban on Vietnamese Publisher

Deeply concerned about a three-month ban imposed on the Da Nang Publishing House in Vietnam, the International Publishers Association (IPA) has written to the Vietnamese Minister of Information and Communications, seeking clarification and transparency about the motives and circumstances leading to the temporary ban, and on the “severe mistakes” committed by Da Nang, as reported in State media. Read the full press release

Getting Published in the English World

Getting published is not always easy. The Mekong Press Foundation and RCSD (the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development) at Chiang Mai University recently conducted a special workshop that focused on how authors should review their manuscripts, and how publishers “imagine” books.

Update Read what Chiang Maiʼs Northern Thai News thought about the workshop.

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New Titles from Mekong Press

Hero and Deity has been released and is now available for purchase.

“I suddenly understood that I had overlooked the big, bold, and wild Tran Hung Dao who was still ʻaliveʼ in the streets, in dreams, who shook bodies and left them exhausted or energized. . . . Clearly something much more interesting was going on in people’s lives than could be discovered by mapping temple floors.”

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Mekong Press is also pleased to announce that The Enduring Sacred Landscape of the Naga has also been released and is available for purchase. Capturing the vanishing memory of ancient rituals, recited texts, and places imbued with echoes of the past, the book recounts the lived texture of human experience in the Mekong River valley.

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2009 Catalog now available

The 2009 Mekong Press catalog has been finalized and is now available for download (PDF, 208 KB). Please contact us if you would prefer a printed copy.

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