...Robert B. Albritton Bangkok: Place, Practice, and Representation . By Marc Askew . London and New York : Routledge , 2002 . xvi, 358 pp. $124.95 (cloth); $37.95 (paper). Bangkok . By William Warren . London : Reaktion Books , 2002 . 160 pp. $14.95 (paper). Bangkok...

...Richard A. O'Connor Bangkok Slums: Review and Recommendations . By Sopon Pornchokchai . Bangkok : School of Urban Community Research Actions . 1993 . xiii, 184 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 645 drawing mostly...

...Ligaya Lindio-McGovern Woman, Man, Bangkok: Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand . By Scot Barmé . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2002 . vii, 273 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H...

...Rhoads Murphey Urbanization in Asia and the Far East. Proceedings of the Joint UN/Unesco Seminar on Urbanization in the ECAFE Region, Bangkok, August 8–18, 1956 . Edited by Philip M. Hauser . Calcutta : UNESCO , 1957 . 286 . Annexes, (paper) Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Walter F. Vella Lords of Life. The Paternal Monarchy of Bangkok . By Prince Chula Chakrabongse . Introduction by H. R. Trevor-Roper . New York : Taplinger , 1960 . 352 . Illustrated, Map, Bibliography, Genealogical Tables, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Richard A. O'Connor Reminiscences of Old Bangkok: Memory and the Identification of a Changing Society . By Takashi Tomosugi . Tokyo : The Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo , 1993 . xi, 252 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 1096...

... have been fully exploited. Some beginning has been made on this work by both Thai and Western scholars, but as yet this is only a beginning. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 1 Coedès G. , Recueil des Inscriptions du Siam ( Bangkok , 1924 –29...

...Jack M.; Sulamith Heins Potter Chinese-Thai Differential Assimilation in Bangkok: An Exploratory Study . By Boonsanong Punyodyana . Ithaca : Cornell University , Southeast Asia Program, 1971 . xvii, 117 pp. Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography. $4.00. Copyright © The Association...

...Tej Bunnag The Organization of Thai Society in the Early Bangkok Period, 1782–1873 . By Akin Rabibhadana . Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1969 . Cornell Thailand Project, Interim Reports Series No. 12. Data Paper No. 74. xi, 247 pp. Tables, Appendices, Bibliography...

...Koompong Noobanjong Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973 . By Lawrence Chua . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2021 . 296 pp. ISBN: 9780824884604 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 An ambitious and accomplished work...

...Niti Pawakapan As I am finishing this book review, thousands of university and school students in Bangkok and elsewhere are protesting the Thai government. They use various forms of media and methods, including poetry, artworks, public statements, individual comments written on paper sheets...

...Bhanubhatra Jittiang In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand . By Tyrell Haberkorn . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2017 . xix, 349 pp. ISBN: 9780299314408 (cloth). Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok . By Michael Herzfeld . Chicago...

...Andrew Johnson Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok . By Claudio Sopranzetti . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . xiv, 314 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Bangkok is a city that epitomizes...

.... 269–70. 12 Bradley's Journal, p. 256. 11 Mrs. Leonowens had lived in Singapore before coming to Bangkok. 10 MSS. Department of State, National Archives, Bangkok, 1864–69, no. 3 (Hereafter referred to as DSNA ), despatch no. 38 of Consul Hood, June 30, 1866...

... in the contemporary educational system, slum children are subject to an authoritarian style of disciplining. This type of education promotes an ethnocentric and classist view that positions slum children as social deviants whose ways of life contrast starkly with those of middle-class children in Bangkok. In addition...

... as a saint in northern Thailand today, during his lifetime he was detained under temple arrest on multiple occasions. He was sent to Bangkok in 1920 and 1935 to face charges that ranged from conducting unauthorized ordinations to treason. For the controversies he generated, the media of the day called him...

... Kamhaeng, who threw off Khmer domination and invented the Thai script, personally went to China to bring back five hundred artisans. And Chinese traders at Ayutthaya contributed decisively toward its becoming very large and very rich. Then, and later at Thonburi and Bangkok, Chinese skill and labor were...

... for the Thai People's Committee for Absolute Democracy with the King as Head of State—occupied key street intersections and government offices in Bangkok. The conservative mobilization had demanded the deposition of elected Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and the complete dismissal of “the Thaksin system...

...Duncan McCargo Abstract Early in the morning of August 26, 2008, a large group of stick-wielding, black-shirted masked men forced their way into the studios of Bangkok's NBT television station, briefly detaining a number of staff. Once inside, they flung open the main doors, allowing several...