Theara Thun is a research fellow under the Research Grants Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.

"Readers learn from this book’s fascinating story about the selective appropriations, translations, and active negotiations by Khmer intellectuals in the encounters with colonial historiography. Thun tells us beyond historiography in transition but also the intellectual history of modern Cambodia." - Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Epistemology of the Past offers a compelling and new portrait of the dynamic landscape of Cambodian textual production in colonial rule and of the writers, translators, and scholars who charted new ways of seeing, framing, and recording the past. Interweaving monasterial chronicles, school textbooks, court ballet, and pop culture, Theara Thun brilliantly and painstakingly reconstructs the emergence of new forms of historiography across several critical decades in Cambodia’s modern history. An important contribution to scholarship on indigenous epistemologies, translation, and on the collective historical imagination." - Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley

Theara Thun is a research fellow under the Research Grants Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.

"Readers learn from this book’s fascinating story about the selective appropriations, translations, and active negotiations by Khmer intellectuals in the encounters with colonial historiography. Thun tells us beyond historiography in transition but also the intellectual history of modern Cambodia." - Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Epistemology of the Past offers a compelling and new portrait of the dynamic landscape of Cambodian textual production in colonial rule and of the writers, translators, and scholars who charted new ways of seeing, framing, and recording the past. Interweaving monasterial chronicles, school textbooks, court ballet, and pop culture, Theara Thun brilliantly and painstakingly reconstructs the emergence of new forms of historiography across several critical decades in Cambodia’s modern history. An important contribution to scholarship on indigenous epistemologies, translation, and on the collective historical imagination." - Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley

Theara Thun is a research fellow under the Research Grants Council Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong.

"Readers learn from this book’s fascinating story about the selective appropriations, translations, and active negotiations by Khmer intellectuals in the encounters with colonial historiography. Thun tells us beyond historiography in transition but also the intellectual history of modern Cambodia." - Thongchai Winichakul, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Epistemology of the Past offers a compelling and new portrait of the dynamic landscape of Cambodian textual production in colonial rule and of the writers, translators, and scholars who charted new ways of seeing, framing, and recording the past. Interweaving monasterial chronicles, school textbooks, court ballet, and pop culture, Theara Thun brilliantly and painstakingly reconstructs the emergence of new forms of historiography across several critical decades in Cambodia’s modern history. An important contribution to scholarship on indigenous epistemologies, translation, and on the collective historical imagination." - Penny Edwards, University of California, Berkeley