柬埔寨华人社群研究的文献回顾与现状

Abstract:Right after William Willmott published his two monographs in 1967 and 1970 on the Chinese community in Cambodia，which largely based on his ethnographic field works in early 1960s，the studies of the Chinese in Cambodia has not been fully understood and studied due to the long-term civil war and the cold war politics. The long-term civil war，on the one hand，had devastatingly destroyed the country but has also vanished most of ethnographic materials and records in the nation. On the other hand，the civil war has also attracted most of academic attention on the studies of Cambodia’s contemporary history，human right status，peace-making process，and its recent economic reconstruction and political democratization. This is the reason that no specific monograph has yet dedicated to the studies of current Chinese communities in Cambodia.Therefore，the author attempts to review the modern literatures and studies on contemporary Chinese communities in Cambodia in this paper. Using author’s cross-disciplinary research journey and transnational career development on the subject as a critical example，the author examines how various disciplinary and methodological approaches have contributed differently on the subject. The author further addresses three urgent and yet important field issues on ethnographic data based up on his long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia，and suggests an advanced training possibility for future studies on both Cambodia and the Chinese within.

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