Chandler considers why the revolution happened and how it was related to Cambodia’s earlier history and to other events in Southeast Asia
” —Patrick Jory (University of Queensland)
the largest conglomerate owned by the royal family's Crown Property Bureau
the book goes on to furnish insights into the distinctive nature of Cambodia's important yet over looked manifestation of Theravada Buddhist tradition and shows how it reestablished itself following almost total annihilation during the Pol Pot period
how this strange place touched and changed her
From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora Felicity Aulino Chandler considers why the revolutionIn 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