Worldwide Angkor

Author: Wang Yuhui
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This is a captivating, enjoyable, and dream-filled work, much like Angkor, which oozes beauty and creativity everywhere. A travelogue? An album? Essays? A photo collection? Comics? A guidebook? It’s all of the above! You can view it however you like! Angkor – a legendary chapter in the history of world civilization. A classic of Southeast Asian royal and religious culture. Here, everything people need is produced, including belief, myth, and dreams. Eight hundred years ago, it faded away like the sun and never rose again, but it froze a deep red hue onto the mysterious land of Southeast Asia. After its curtain call, Angkor fell into silence, transforming over centuries into a series of faint and fragile legends. For hundreds of years, due to Cambodia often being engulfed in smoke and fire, Angkor remained hidden deep in the jungle, solitary and desolate, with few knowing of it, yet its fame had long spread across the world, with countless hearts yearning for it but unable to visit. Now, with the end of Cambodia’s wars, Angkor has become a sacred destination for cultural pilgrimage and tourism, and it is also emerging as a new hotspot for world cultural tourism. The World of Angkor is a captivating, enjoyable, and dream-filled work, much like Angkor itself, brimming with beauty and creativity. A travelogue? An album? Essays? A photo collection? Comics? A guidebook? It’s all of the above—love to view it however you like! I greatly admire the author’s courage and spirit in repeatedly venturing into the dangerous, smoke-filled regions of Angkor for exploration, experience, and research. They have merged their emotions with Angkor, and as a result, The World of Angkor goes beyond the general introductions about Angkor by predecessors. It guides readers on a spiritual journey through Angkor and many other Southeast Asian destinations, offering a cultural baptism and a transcendence of life, as well as nurturing beauty and spiritual solace. Opening this book evokes a special emotion, as if we begin to float above Angkor, swaying between the canopies of tropical forests, where mysterious rhythms and the smiles of the Khmer are everywhere. In the West, the discovery of Angkor once eclipsed everything left behind by the Greek and Roman eras. Here, the smiles of the Khmer remain, harmonious and mysterious. The wind of modern civilization has not yet arrived, and it seems worlds away from secular life. The earth reveals its true face, still a place where dreams are born. Some say the richness of the world lies in the fact that there will always be places you long to visit but cannot—places we can only dream of. That is why the world is filled with legends, richness, and mystery. Angkor remains in our dreams. The world belongs to everyone, and Angkor belongs to everyone. World Heritage The World of Angkor is waking up from the place where our dreams begin. In this era where good books are scarce, please take a look at this one! As we grow older with the years, many of the books we once loved will fade away, but I believe this book will never be discarded.