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This collection of eleven essays by senior Asianist Craig Reynolds
features debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history.
He explores themes that have hitherto been treated superficially in
Thai historical writing, including Siam’s semicolonialism in the
late nineteenth century, the concepts of militarism and
masculinity, collective memory and dynastic succession, the
relationship of manual knowledge to ethnoscience, and the
dialectics of globalization. Other more familiar topics under
Reynolds’s microscope, treated with new material and approaches,
include cultural nationalism and religious history.
The first edition of this book was hailed as original and
challenging in its analyses of Thai national identity. The topic is
today no less worthy of discussion and comment. The essays boldly
offer insights into the formation of Thai identity from the
perspectives of history, political science, anthropology,
linguistics, social psychology, human geography, and media and
religious studies. Written in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian
financial crisis, a new chapter reflects on the way older concepts
of Thai identity were transformed by the economic boom as well as
by the financial crisis that followed. Topics include the debates
among public intellectuals about the perils and opportunities of
globalization, the dynamic relationship between local and global
knowledge, and perceived challenges to Thailand's sovereignty, all
of which have deep roots in the country's modern history.
A collection of the classic essays of O. W. Wolters, reflecting his
radiant and meticulous lifelong study of premodern Southeast Asia,
its literature, trade, government, and vanished cities. Included is
an intellectual biography by the editor, which covers Wolters's
professional lives as a member of the Malayan Civil Service and,
later, as a scholar. This volume displays the extraordinary range
of Oliver Wolters's work in early Indonesian, Vietnamese,
Cambodian, and Thai history.
A collection of the classic essays of O. W. Wolters, reflecting his
radiant and meticulous lifelong study of premodern Southeast Asia,
its literature, trade, government, and vanished cities. Included is
an intellectual biography by the editor, which covers Wolters's
professional lives as a member of the Malayan Civil Service and,
later, as a scholar. This volume displays the extraordinary range
of Oliver Wolters's work in early Indonesian, Vietnamese,
Cambodian, and Thai history.
In these two monographs, first presented as part of the Frank H.
Golay Memorial Lecture series sponsored by the Southeast Asia
Program at Cornell University, Craig J. Reynolds and Ruth McVey
each review Southeast Asian Studies as an academic enterprise and
offer their proposals for adapting and revitalizing the academy's
approach to Southeast Asia in particular and area studies
generally.
Using Jit Poumisak's The Real Face of Thai Feudalism Today (1957),
Reynolds both rewrites Thai history and critiques relevant
historiography. Discussing imperialism, feudalism, and the nature
of power, Reynolds argues that comparisons between European and
Thai premodern societies reveal Thai social formations to be
"historical, contingent, and temporally bounded."
Includes a Thai-English glossary of over 3,500 words.
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