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A personal introduction to a changing city
Deciphering the palimpsest: finding the past in the present
Iberian alarums and excursions
Royal, city, colonial city
Transformation: building the new Phnom Penh in an era of colonial good feeling
Phnom Penh before the second World War: a literary way station for the Angkor temples
Watershed years, 1939-1953
"Sihanouk time": 1953-1970
Three years, eight months and twenty days: Phnom Penh under Pol Pot
Writing obituaries for "old Phnom Penh"
Ambiguous city in an ambiguous country, 1979-1993
Today's city: somehow hope survives.
Deciphering the palimpsest: finding the past in the present
Iberian alarums and excursions
Royal, city, colonial city
Transformation: building the new Phnom Penh in an era of colonial good feeling
Phnom Penh before the second World War: a literary way station for the Angkor temples
Watershed years, 1939-1953
"Sihanouk time": 1953-1970
Three years, eight months and twenty days: Phnom Penh under Pol Pot
Writing obituaries for "old Phnom Penh"
Ambiguous city in an ambiguous country, 1979-1993
Today's city: somehow hope survives.