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Bones around My Neck - The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur (Hardcover)
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Bones around My Neck - The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur (Hardcover)
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Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852-1935) served as Siam's first diplomat
to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam's political
history, when its independence was threatened by European
imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered
irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal
corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones
around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors,
which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal
and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a
commotion in every country he inhabited.Prisdang spent his first
five years in exile from Siam living in disguise as a commoner and
employee of the British Empire in colonial Southeast Asia. He then
resurfaced in the 1890s in British Ceylon, where he was ordained as
a Buddhist monk and became a widely respected abbot. Foreigners
from around the world were drawn to this prince who had discarded
wealth and royal status to lead the life of an ascetic. His fluency
in English, royal blood, acute intellect, and charisma earned him
importance in international diplomatic and Buddhist circles.
Prisdang's life journey reminds us of the complexities of the
colonial encounter and the recalibrations it caused in local
political cultures. His drama offers more than a story about
Siamese politics: it also casts in high relief the subjective
experience of global imperialism. Telling this history from the
vantage point of a remarkable individual grounds and animates the
historical abstractions of imperialism, Buddhist universalism, and
the transformation of Siam into a modern state.
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