This book examines the uncertain process through which a specific idea about a separate ‘Lao space’ and its culture was formed and Laos came into existence under French colonial rule. Here, Laos’s position at the intersection of two conflicting spatial layouts of ‘Thailand’ and ‘Indochina’ made its national form a particularly contested process.
The existence of Laos today is taken for granted. But the crystallization of a Lao national idea and ultimate independence for the country was a long a...
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