Facing the Cambodian Past Environment which involved the recording on

which involved the recording on film of 360 hours of performances by the four masters of Yangzhou storytelling

and memoirs

healing practices

Singapore and Thailand—and this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of this regional grouping

For the next twelve years

Facing the Cambodian Past Environment which involved the recording onThese nineteen essays cover a range of themes and problems as perceived by a leading student of Cambodias past. They include studies of the leper king myth at Angkor, post Angkorean normative poems, nineteenth century perceptions of the moral order, and royally sponsored human sacrifices in rural Cambodia in the 1870s. Other essays deal with aspects of the colonial period and the revolutionary era (19751979). The collection closes with two essays