From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora Felicity Aulino Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University

Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN)

Insightful and timely prose and poetry that expresses the contemporary Southeast Asian experience

Brings together Thai and Western scholars of history

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including The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen and Yuan Phai

From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora Felicity Aulino Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic UniversityIn a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regimes collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one fourth of the countrys population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one