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This is Lossel of Montgomery with another China History Podcast episode.

I'll be frank with you of the two episodes that will make up this series.

This is the more exciting of the two, and longer.

Last time I tried to scrape together enough to offer up an idea about the three early periods

of Cambodia and history, told in the stories of Phun An, Chan La, and the Khmer Empire.

No surprise, as far as who was most instrumental in writing about the history of early Cambodia,

didn't come so much from stone sculptures, steelies, and bob reliefs as much as it came from Chinese chroniclers.

And we finished off last time with the French Protectorate and Cambodian Independence in 1953,

and we saw how the shock waves emanating out of China following the CCP victory in 1949

were reverberating all over Pnom Penh and many other capitals of Southeast Asia.

In 1930, Ho Chi Minh got everything started with the founding of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party.

He got the word out, far and wide, and Mao's victory really gave the movement at Southeast Asia,

and a adrenaline shot to the heart.

And then I introduced you the Salazar, who, like Joe Nlai, Deng Xiaoping, Ho Chi Minh, Pham Van Dong,

and so many other communist revolutionaries, spent time in France.

You could have done a lot worse than Paris in the 1920s if you were a radical communist,

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