ABSTRACT
Cambodian king (Lamb 2008, 243): he spoke of the actual affinities of both nations to each other as regards the temple of Angkor Wat as an ‘object of joint, caring interest’. Here, King Sihanouk used this staging of the Khmer emergence myth to subliminally communicate a new political self-confidence to his former colonial master (Sangkum 1969; Sihanouk 1981, 319-320).
