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...Craig J. Reynolds; Hong Lysa Abstract Analyses of Thai political economy since World War II have sought to define the stages of Thai social evolution from earliest times to the present and to determine whether or not the Bowring Treaty of 1855 and the 1932 coup mark changes in the social formation...

...Thomas H. Rohlich Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs . By Richard Bowring . Princeton N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1982 . ix, 290 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index of First Lines, Index. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK...

... press that summer indicate that the yearly wages of a cook or housemaid ranged from £28 to £45. For someone in search of a Bloomsbury flat of one's own, £20 could keep you in modest, furnished comfort on Gordon Square for ten weeks. Richard Bowring . Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji...

... history presented in chapters 2 - 5 . Her interpretation challenges the standard, Bowring-treaty-centered analysis that we are familiar with. It strengthens the place of Rama III in Thai history, and it moves the economic changes usually associated with the Bowring treaty increased trade and a growth...

... later after the modernization of the Thai legal code and the complete reorganization of the Thai legal system. The Kingdom and People of Siam. BY SIR Sir John Bowring was an exceptional man, JOHN BOWRING. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY literate in fifteen languages, including Arabic DAVID K. WYATT. Oxford...

.... Sir John Bowring referred to two such instances when documents were seized from Chinese junks by the British Naval Force on April 4 and June 1, 1857. See Bowring Papers, John Ryland Library—1230—John Bowring Miscellaneous Papers, items 21 and 23. These documents are indistinguishable from the Canton...

... reviews, one by a scholar of literature (Richard Bowring, Review 892 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of Nihongo, Journal ofJapanese Studies 13, no. 2 [Summer 1987]:513-17), the other by a linguist (James D. McCawley, Review of Nihongo, Language 63, no. 4 [December 1987]:904 6); no purpose would be served...

... be refused, arrived in Hong Kong on Mar. 19 (FO 17/153, desp. #32, Bonham to Palmerston, Mar. 22, 1849). According to Dr. John Bowring, who assumed his position as British consul at Canton on April 13 (and who was at the Canton Consulate at the time?), Hsü would have acceded to the British demands “had...

... description. one of the chief goals of Thai foreign policy, British Museum HENRY D. GINSBURG a goal which was finally achieved sixty years later after the modernization of the Thai legal code and the complete reorganization of the Thai legal system. The Kingdom and People of Siam. BY SIR Sir John Bowring...

... with the Western world were first placed on a satisfactory basis shortly after King Mongkut ascended the throne in 1851. The Bowring treaty, negotiated four years later with Great Britain and providing for extraterritoriality, unrestricted trade, and a low treaty tarift, set the pattern of Thailand's intercourse...

... of allowing Sir John Bowring to negotiate on Thailand's behalf at the court of Louis Napoleon. The letter, in fact, is full of reasons why Bowring should not represent Mongkut in Paris, and in it Mongkut stresses the importance of using only Thai nationals for this purpose. Here the king states...

... in the text, translations of three kambun records describing the birth of Prince Atsuhira, and eight maps locating the principals involved in the ceremonies surrounding the birth. These maps are a valuable aid to visualizing the physical point from which Murasaki witnessed the events. Bowring's book also...

... as the most important business center in the Greater China region. Similarly, Philip Bowring remarks that Hong Kong's banks, currency, supervisory system, and political stability continue to give the territory an edge over most countries in Asia as the region's premier international financial center. Bowring...

... interpretation challenges the standard, Bowring-treaty-centered analysis that we are familiar with. It strengthens the place of Rama III in Thai history, and it moves the economic changes usually associated with the Bowring treaty increased trade and a growth in economic activity back into the earlier decades...

..., the Thai court began to regard its subjects, not as corvee laborers, but as producers of economic wealth. Economic growth supported the rapid expansion of tax farms, which also were in place by the time of Sir John Bowring's visit in 1855. The Bowring treaty, by freezing customs duties, made the Thai state...

... of Hewison's Marxist approach is in showing how important shifts in the country's political economy have resulted from factors more internal than external to Thai society. Contrary to those who view the 1855 Bowring Treaty as the primary stimulus to Thai capitalism, Hewison asserts that an intensification...

... the Bowring treaty of 1855 to the revolution of 1932. Although these later political and economic forms did affect Thai villages, their impact was primarily extractive rather than transformative. During the sakdina period, villagers had to serve as corve labor or provide forest products that entered...

... important shifts in the country's political economy have resulted from factors more internal than external to Thai society. Contrary to those who view the 1855 Bowring Treaty as the primary stimulus to Thai capitalism, Hewison asserts that an intensification of the division of labor, the emergence...

... to the Annals of Ayuthia , prepared in 1795 ( BEFEO , 18 , no. 9 [ 1918 ], 18 ). 23 Bowring, 1:43, 44, 45. 22 Pallegoix, 2:74–79. 21 Ibid., 107–08. 20 Ibid., 60. 19 Ibid., 59 By Cochinchinese, Jones here certainly meant Chams, who at that time occupied what is now central...

... was accorded a better reception than had been given to the British envoy (Sir John Bowring) in 1855 or the American (Townsend Harris) in 1856.5 But from Montigny in 1856 to Aubaret in 1864, largely because of the situation at home and elsewhere, France was not so well represented at Bangkok, and during part...