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Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia 2018 - France, Japan, and the Sihanouk Crusade for Independence (Paperback)
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Monarchical Manipulation in Cambodia 2018 - France, Japan, and the Sihanouk Crusade for Independence (Paperback)
Series: NIAS Monographs, 141
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One figure strides across modern Cambodian history - Norodom
Sihanouk. From his accession to the throne of Cambodia in 1941
until his extravagant funeral ceremony in 2013, the prince turned
`king father' in later life never dodged controversy. But this is
not a biography of Sihanouk; the focus is upon the final decades of
the French protectorate, the rise of a counter-elite and winning of
Cambodia's independence. Manipulation of the 1,000-year-old
monarchy comes to the heart of this book, as does indigenous
resistance, Buddhist activism, French cultural creationism, the
rise of radical republicanism, Thai recidivism and wartime Japanese
machinations. Carried through into the postwar period, the seeds of
Cambodia's own destruction were being sown in the jungle
perimeters, rubber plantations, schools and monkhood, and even in
the classrooms of prestigious French institutions. Deeply embedded
Khmer cultural conventions and the interplay of charismatic power
and patronage are not irrelevant to this discussion, indeed inform
us as to the future and even present-day patterns of political
behaviour. The skill of the young Sihanouk in navigating between
Vichy France, Japanese militarists, republican opportunists, armed
rural insurgency and French proconsuls is brought to life by a
range of new archival documentation. A book is also a work of
premonition as much inquiry, exploring how did a country of such
grace and natural bounty come to be associated with the worst
excesses of mass murder and genocide experienced in the twentieth
century. The long political prelude as exposed in this book makes
the now cliched `tragedy of Cambodian history' much more
comprehensible.
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