.... BOOK REVIEWS 639 The first, Kumut Chandruang's My Boyhood in Siam (1938), gave an accurate and intimate picture of the everyday life and attitudes of a Thai middle-class family. The second, Prince Chula Chakrabongse's Brought up in England (1943), was written by a grandson of King Mongkut. It depicted...

... the fate of the Catholic Church in Communist-controlled Asia. DAVID WURFEL International Christian University King Mongkut of Siam. By A. B. GRISWOLD. New York: The Asia Society, 1961. 60. Notes (paper). Judging from the attention devoted in this essay to Mrs. Leonowens and her literary fancies, Mr...

...David K. Wyatt Prachum silā čhārük, phāk thī 3 [Recueil des Inscriptions (du Siam), Troisième partie] . Bangkok : Commission for the Publication of Historical, Cultural, and Archeological Records, Office of the Prime Minister, 1965 . iii, viii, 253 pp. 79 Plates. 50 baht. Copyright...

...Ronald M. Bernier Hindu Gods of Peninsular Siam . By Stanley J. O'Connor, Jr. Ascona, Switzerland : Artibus Asiae Publishers , 1971 . 76 pp. Bibliography, Illustrations, Index. $12.50 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 732 regional outline...

...Hiram W. Woodward, Jr. Early Burma—Old Siam: A Comparative Commentary . By H. G. Quaritch Wales . London : Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. , 1973 . xv, 188 pp. Illustrations, Index. 6 pounds (Brit.). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974 1974 BOOK REVIEWS art...

...Neon Snidvongs Sous-développement et Utopie au Siam: Le Programme de Réformes Présenté en 1933 par Pridi Phanomyong . By Pierre Fistié . The Hague : Mouton and Co. , 1969 . 254 pp. 39F. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 238 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Adele G. Epstein Thai Titles and Ranks, Including a Translation of Traditions of Royal Lineage in Siam by King Chulalongkorn . By Robert B. Jones . Data Paper Number 81. Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University , 1971 . x, 147 pp. Appendix...

... 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...

...William P. Malm Malay Shadow Puppets: The Wayang Siam of Kelantan . By Amin Sweeney . London : British Museum . 83 pp. Bibliographical Note, Glossary, Illustrations, n.p.l. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1973 1973 BOOK REVIEWS formula gradually worked out...

... but is also of considerable value to anyone who wishes to understand Japan of the past two decades. Harvard University EDWIN 0. REISCHAUER Public Administration in Siam. By W. D. REEVE. New York: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1952. vi, 93 p. $2.00. Public Administration in Ceylon. By SIR...

... in the Central Parts of Siam, Cambodia and Laos during the years 1858-61. ABRIDGED AND EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER PYM. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1966. xxii, 160 pp. Plates, Maps, Bibliography, Index. $5.10. group with trucks, packed ice crates of fish, There could be no more appropriate biogra...

...Justin McDaniel Masked: The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam . By Alfred Habegger . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2014 . 560 pp. $28.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 Masked: The Life of Anna...

...Rupert Emerson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 Siam Under Rama III . By Walter F. Vella . Locust Valley, N. Y. : J. J. Augustin Incorporated , 1957 . ix, 180 . 468 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES ing from India. After settling north of the Yangtze in what...

...Thongchai Winichakul Abstract On 27 december 1932, prince bhidayalongkorn, the President of the Royal Institute of Siam, delivered a special lecture titled “What are the conditions called ‘ siwilai ’?” [Phawa yangrai no thi riakwa khwam siwilai]. Transliterated from the English word civilized...

...M. L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati Architecture of Siam: A Cultural History Interpretation . By Clarence Aasen . New York : Oxford University Press , 1998 . 366 pp. $85.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 791 the Raj...

...Carl A. Trocki Fields from the Sea: Chinese Junk Trade with Siam during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries . By Jennifer Wayne Cushman . Ithaca : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University , 1993 . ix, 206 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994...

...Tamara Loos Sex in the Inner City: The Fidelity between Sex and Politics in Siam TAMARA LOOS I will not introduce a caocom [to a potential lover] or be an accomplice to any caocom who af liates with a man as an adulterer, nor [will I be an accomplice to] any silvertongued go-between, nor will I...

... of Siam, 1860–1921 . Translated, edited, and introduced by Craig J. Reynolds . Athens: Ohio : Ohio University Press (Southeast Asia Translation Series No. 3), 1979 . liv, 88 pp. Plates, Glossary, Biographical Sketches, Bibliography, Index. $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... DvaravatI: The Earliest Kingdom of Siam (6th to n t h Century A.D BY H. G. QUARITCH WALES. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1969. xiv, 149 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. 84s. Because of the absence of sustained Chinese reference and the existence of only a few 493 inscriptions containing dynastic...

... de head of the Gulf of Siam, the horizon of the la ville d' U Tong (Bangkok, 1968), that DvaravatI cultural world stretched to Miiang there is abundant evidence that the decorative Fa Daed on the Korat plateau in the north- arts of DvaravatI underwent a virtual renais- east, on the west...