{"id":6942,"date":"2019-08-19T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T02:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/?page_id=6942"},"modified":"2021-03-15T16:40:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:40:48","slug":"thun-theara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2021-en\/about\/staff-page\/thun-theara\/","title":{"rendered":"THUN, Theara"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/i><\/strong> theara <\/i> cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp<\/p>\n

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Research Departments\u30fbPosition<\/h2>\n

Cross-regional Studies\u30fbProgram-Specific Researcher<\/p>\n

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History<\/p>\n

Research Interests \/ Keywords<\/h2>\n

Intellectual History, Manuscript Cultures, Politics of Ethnicity,
\nSoutheast Asian History, Cambodia\/Khmer Studies\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Related News:<\/h4>\n

\n<\/i> 2021.3.12 \u201cEthnic Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge: the genocide and race debate” (Taylor & Francis Online \/ 12 March 2021) <\/a>
\n<\/i> 2021.3.12 \u201cThe epistemological shift from palace chronicles to scholarly Khmer historiography under French colonial rule” (Cambridge University Press \/ 29 July 2020) <\/a>
\n<\/i> 2021.1.15 \u201cInvasion\u201d or \u201cLiberation\u201d?: Contested Commemoration in Cambodia and within ASEAN
\n(Cambridge University Press \/ 13 January 2021) <\/a>
\n<\/i> 2020.12.10 Treason and Loyalty to the Royal Court: The Kan Narrative in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Khmer Chronicle Manuscripts<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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\n Theara Thun is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University, Japan. Before joining CSEAS, he was a research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands. He received a PhD in History at the National University of Singapore under a joint doctoral scholarship program between the National University of Singapore and the Harvard-Yenching Institute (Cambridge, MA, USA). His research interests include the relationship between local texts and figures and the construction of collective identity and religion from the pre-colonial to post-independence periods of Cambodia and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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