Crown & the Capitalists, The: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation border In the Shadow of Angkor

In the Shadow of Angkor does a commendable service to Cambodia’s people

Cover illustration: Cambodian children in front of a Buddhist temple used as a killing field during the Khmer Rouge regime

Grappling to develop a well-functioning pay regime has challenged the PRC since its birth

to reveal the many uses of the Cambodian past(s)

Doryane Kermel-Torrès was geographer at the French Institute of Research for Development (IRD

Crown & the Capitalists, The: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation border In the Shadow of AngkorFor distribution in Thailand only The Kingdom of Thailand, formerly Siam, has successfully transformed itself into a rival modern nation state over the last two centuries, despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia. Recent historiography has placed progressor lack thereoftoward Western style liberal democracy at the center of Thailands narrative, but that underestimates the importance of the colonial context. In