Background and Context

Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War: An International and Interdisciplinary Approach (1945-1954), Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press/Copenhagen, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2011, 600 pages.

Biography

Dictionnaire de bio-bibliographie générale, ancienne et moderne de l'Indochine Français, by A. Brebion, ed. by A. Cabaton. Paris, Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1935, 446 p. ( Académie des Sciences Coloniales. Annales, t. 8 )
Widener | LSoc 1621.87.10 vol.8
--About 1600 biographies of indigenous persons and Europeans, with lists of their publications (including periodical articles) and secondary works. Covers 16th century to early 20th century. Includes several chronological lists, e.g., Kings and Protectors of Cambodia, Missionaries, etc. Subject index to occupations and activities.

Hommes et destins: dictionnaire biographique d'outre-mer. Paris: Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, 1975-1995. 10 v.
Widener | WID-LC | CT1014 .H65
--Covers French colonial figures, including explorers, administrators, missionaries, doctors, anthropologists, engineers, etc. Vols. 1-5 cover the colonies in general; v. 6, Asia; v. 7, Northern Africa; v. 8, Colonial governors, administrators, and magistrates; v. 9, Africa south of the Sahara. Each volume has a cumulative index of biographees. Included full text in the World Biographical Information System

Bibliography of published work by colonial administrators in Mondes et cultures: comptes rendus trimestriels des séances de l'Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, v. 46, pp. 71-167
Widener | LSoc 1621.87.5

Cambodia

Les cles du Cambodge / Raoul M. Jennar.   Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose, 1995.   328 p.  "Profils cambodgiens" [biographies]: p. [183]-276. 
Widener | WID-LC | DS554.7 .J46 1995
--Brief, often very brief, biographical data (pp. 185-276) on about 450 persons living in 1995. Emphasis on government officials but with academics and other occupations represented.  Full text in South East Asian biographical archive. 283498 

Personnalites du Cambodge. 1.- ed.; 1963- Phnom-Penh, Cambodia, Realites cambodgiennes.
LOCATION: Widener: Ind 10990.4
--Includes about 150 persons, largely government officials but also some professionals and some foreigners.  Entries have portraits.  Full text in South East Asian biographical archive.

Contemporary

 Who's Who in Cambodia 2006-2007.   Phnom Penh : MBN International in partnership with Promo-Khmer, 2006. 536 p.  4th ed.
--Largely governmental and commercial information.  Biographies of Cambodian kings and other royal family members.  Names and photographs of government officials.  Not a who’s who in usual sense.

Bibliography

Researching Indochina. This guide provides an outline of library and archival resources for French Indochina

Indochina, A Bibliography of the Land and People, by Cecil C. Hobbs et al. Washington: Library of Congress, 1950, 367 pp.
HOLLIS Record
HathiTrust Full Text

Bibliographie des voyages dans l'Indochine française du IXe au XIXe siècle, by Antoine Brebion,, 1857-1917.  Saigon : Impr. F.-H. Schneider, 1910, 299 pp.
HOLLIS Record
HathiTrust Full Text

Document Collections

Document Collections

Noradam Sihanouk Archival Collection, Monash University – 150 items from this king’s personal collection

Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos: US foreign relations

Indochinese War (Wilson Center)

World Digital Library

Réseau francophone numérique: Asie - Pacifique

Guerre d'Indochine (Univ. du Québec à Montréal)

Cambodian Genocide Databases (CGDB) (Yale)

Visual Sources

Base Ulysse (Archives nationales d’outre-mer) offers online images from their collection

Images Online at the British Library

l' Indochine Coloniale offers images.

Southeast Asia Digital Library offers texts and images.

Culture.fr is a vast collection of online images and text. Scroll down for topics list.

Periodicals

Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian newspapers: an international union list, by G. Raymond Nunn and Dô Văn Anh. Taipei: Chʻeng-wen Pub. Co., 1972, 104 p.
Harvard-Yenching | Harvard Depository (W) | Z6958.S6 N86
Widener | RR681.330

Finding Periodical Articles and Book Reviews on South and Southeast Asia

Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, 1901-

Bulletin officiel de l'Indochine française   1889-1913

Presse indochinoise (Gallica)

Vietnam Studies Group list of digitized newspapers

Vietnamese Journals and Newspapers Digitized by the Center for Research Libraries (available to CRL member libraries and SEAM member libraries)

Gallica - La presse quotidienne  (Digital library of the Bibliothéque nationale de France)

La presse coloniale sur Gallica

Statistics

Annuaire statistique de l’Indochine. Hanoi, v. 1- 7, 1913/1922-1936/37.
Location : Documents (Lamont) Ind Doc 5007.5