...Kate Frieson Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness . By Milton Osborne . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1994 . xi, 283 pp. $27.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 224 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES large Kuala...

...David P. Chandler Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 Politics and Power in Cambodia: the Sihanouk Years . By Milton Osborne . Melbourne : Longmans Australia , 1973 . 120 pp., notes, index, map. n.p.l. 742 fact, ranging from relatively inconsequential...

...David P. Chandler My War with the CIA: Cambodia's Fight for Survival . By Norodom Sihanouk as related to Wilfred Burchett . London : Allen Lane, the Penguin Press , 1973 . 270 pp. 50 pence. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 336 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

.... Photographs, Map. 30 Fr. 60. These two books are about the coup d'Stat that removed Prince Norodom Sihanouk from power in Cambodia in March, 1970. The first is by two journalists in their 30's (M. Pomonti is the Southeast Asia correspondent for Le Monde); the other is by a man who served Prince Sihanouk...

... Sihanouk's power or, for that matter, under the French. Like any historian, Osborne can only go as far as his sources lead him. The ones he has used do not lead him very far from Phnom Penh or from Sihanouk's public explanations of the dynamics of Cambodian society. The problem of sources is especially acute...

... of the Cambodian people"; here is the U.S. Intelligence agent Victor Matsui, and the bungled anti-Sihanouk coup of 1958, the "Dap Chhuon affair"; here are the Dulles brothers lecturing Sihanouk about Communism; the motorcycles that failed to appear to escort him to the UN; the empty streets that greeted him...

... which were formed and references to the people who played the most prominent roles. The period of independence up to the overthrow of Sihanouk whose personality comes across very timidly is carefully analysed. Mr. Chandler was bold enough to bring his account of Cambodia right up to the present...

... in French in Vietnam P.E.N. review, no. 3, Jan.Feb., 1962. Books CHAU SENG. L'organisation buddhique au Cambodge. [Phnom-Penh, Universite buddhique Preah Sihanouk Raj, 1962?] 29 p. illus. (Culture et civilisation khmeres, no. 4) DHAMMARAMA, P. S. Initiation pratique au Bud- dhisme. [Phom-Penh, Universite...

.... 414 pp. Photographs, Map. 30 Fr. 60. These two books are about the coup d'Stat that removed Prince Norodom Sihanouk from power in Cambodia in March, 1970. The first is by two journalists in their 30's (M. Pomonti is the Southeast Asia correspondent for Le Monde); the other is by a man who served...

.... ESMAN Cornell University Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness. By MlLTON O S B O R N E . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. xi, 283 pp. $27.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Until the apocalyptic Khmer Rouge years brought Pol Pot's name to the fore, it was Sihanouk who was equated...

... a succession of upheavals. Lon Nol overthrew Sihanouk in 1970, and the country underwent an "incursion" and "strategic bombing" by the United States; the Khmer Rouge1 came to power in 1975 and attempted to radically restructure society in their self-styled Democratic Kampuchea; and, most recently...

... regime and feudal class" (p. 133). In his response, Le 782 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Duan argues that there are three possibilities for change in Cambodia: working with the contemporary government headed by Prince Norodom Sihanouk to introduce democratic reforms, struggling with Sihanouk for political...

... by earlier events? In addition, he identifies three themes that serve to explain Cambodia's predicament. These themes are the country's location and accessibility which make it vulnerable to outside influences, a personal and absolutist style of leadership shared by Prince Sihanouk and Pol Pot, and finally...

... possibilities for change in Cambodia: working with the contemporary government headed by Prince Norodom Sihanouk to introduce democratic reforms, struggling with Sihanouk for political power, and overthrowing Sihanouk. However, he cautions, only the first two options are realistic, as "there is not yet...

.... New in Cambodia, by Bijan Raj Chatterji. 2d rev. York, Vantage Press [1965] 243 p. ed. [Calcutta] University of Calcutta, 1964. TRAN-VAN-TUNG. Deux mille ans de poesie viet- xv, 288 p. geneal. table, maps. namienne. Paris, Serg, 1965. 135 p. DAUPHIN-MEUNIER, ACHILLE. Le Cambodge de Articles Sihanouk...

... Hemisphere 10, no. 8 (Aug. 1966), 15-23. illus. bouddhique, 1964. 105, 10 p. illus. MEYER, CHARLES. Kambuja et Kirata. Etudes cam- . MINISTERE DU PLAN. Le plan quinquennal. bodgiennes, no. 5 (Jan./March 1966), 17-33. Five year plan Preah Norodom Sihanouk. 1960- illus., maps. 1964. [Hongkong, Printed...

... nudges from the embassy in Phnom Penh, consistently failed to take Norodom Sihanouk or his kingdom seriously. Diplomatic relations in these years were hampered, to be sure, by Sihanouk's querulous pursuit of diplomatic attention, by his antipathy to the United States (which was probably an aspect of his...

... of the political regimes since independence in 1953. He starts with the Sangkum (Buddhist socialism) period under Prince Sihanouk. Unlike numerous other scholars, he avoids romanticizing this period as a "golden era of peace and stability" and notes that an educational crisis had already begun to emerge during...

..., 1963), 375-377. map. NIVOLON, FRANCIS. What Sihanouk will miss. FEER 42 (Dec. 5, 1963), 510-511. O'SULLIVAN, KEVIN. Concentric conformity in ancient Khmer kinship organization. Chung yang yen chiu yuan. Min tsu hsiieh yen chiu so. Chi k'an. (Academia Sinica. Institute of Ethnology. Bulletin) no. 13...

...- d'Imprimerie et de Papeterie, 1961. 207 p. tran-Huan. [Paris] Gallimard [1962] 273 p. (Annales de la Faculte de droit de Phnom(UNESCO collection of representative works. Penh, v. 2) Vietnamese series) NORODOM SIHANOUK VARMAN, King of Cambodia. PHAN Tran; roman en vers. Texte, traduction et Le Cambodge et ses...