...Lawrence Palmer Briggs Abstract It is a common statement of writers of Cambodian and Siamese history that the Siamese overran Cambodia and captured Angkor Thom on one or more occasions before the final sack of that capital in 1430–31. The dates on which this event is said to have occurred...

... of analysis wherein the author delineates clearly a host of variables and then succeeds in presenting a convincing picture of the way in which these interrelate to produce the changing society of contemporary Jelebu. Yale University FRANK M. LEBAR Ancient Siamese Government and Administration. By H. G...

..., Yingxian should be Juxian, Ge village should be Gai village, and Mengland xianpi should read Menglan suobi. Mi CHU WIENS Library ofCongress Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade, 1652-1853- By SARASIN VIRAPHOL. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University (Harvard East Asian...

...Henry D. Ginsburg Ten Lives of the Buddha: Siamese Temple Paintings and Jataka Tales . By Elizabeth Wray , Clare Rosenfield , and Dorothy Bailey . New York : John Weatherhill , nc., 1972 . 154 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Glossary, Bibliography. $12.95. Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Megan Sinnott Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image . By Maurizio Peleggi . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 2002 . ix , 232 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O...

...Chris Baker 484 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES libraries and not individuals. Faculty and students thus should recommend purchase of the bibliography to libraries. DONALD CLAY JOHNSON University of Minnesota SOUTHEAST ASIA A Siamese Tragedy: Development and Disintegration in Modern Thailand. By W...

...Therese M. Mahoney A History of Siamese Musk Reconstructed from Western Documents, 1505–1932 . By Terry E. Miller and Jarenchai Chonpairot . Special issue of Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 8 , no. 2. DeKalb : Center for Southeast Asian Studies...

...Constance M. Wilson A Siamese Embassy Lost in Africa 1686: The Odyssey of Ok-Khun Chamnan . By Michael Smithies . Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books , 1999 . viii , 126 pp. $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 202 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... as much to do with the infancy of the field of Thai studies as with the lack of speculative literature (in Siamese) that would attract the curiosity of intellectual historians. For example, we hardly know what books—especially what Western books—were read by the nineteenth-century Siamese elite, let alone...

...Ansil Ramsay Abstract Ted Robert Gurr's hypotheses on political violence and James C. Scott's on patron-client relations are used to explain why modernizing policies of the Siamese government provoked rebellions in Chiang Mai in 1889 and in Phrae in 1902. The article suggests that the rebellions...

...John A. Pope Abstract The museum has acquired from the Hester Collection in Chicago 410 pieces of Chinese and Siamese ceramics from the group collected by Mr. Hester in the Philippines. All are whole pieces and this accession rounds out and supplements in many ways the already important body...

... the inscriptions of Siam— in Siamese, Tai, Mon, Khmer, Sanskrit, and Pali — and translated and edited important chronicles and other historical documents. He organized and classified the National Museum and founded there the Dvāravatī and Srivijaya Schools of Art. Nor has all his attention been given to French...

...Hong Lysa Abstract This essay is an exploration of one aspect of the politics of gender representation in Thailand, namely, how the portrayals of Siamese women in Thai popular histories form part of the present-day shaping of gender relations. I argue that moving in tandem with developments...

...), pp. 8–9. 20 According to the Annuaire generate de 1921 (p. 300), Cambodians constitute about 90% of the inhabitants of these provinces, while there were no Siamese inhabitants there at all. 21 Berjoin A. , Le Siam et Us accords franco-siamois ( Paris , 1927 ), pp. 119...

... the earliest times to 1781 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1926), pp. 212-14. 26 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Siamese town. This noble persuaded the older one, known to the Siamese as # Ong Chieng Chun, to take refuge in Dhonburi, which is part of modern Bangkok, and seek the protection of the Siamese king...

... and impressive economic growth, but it also provides some localized longstanding instances of tolerance and symbiosis. Mohamed Yusoff Ismail's Buddhism and Ethnicity deals with the latter sort of pattern in one rural corner of peninsular Malaysia. Based on fieldwork in 1982-83 in an ethnically mixed Siamese...

..., February 21, 1867, p. 348. 51 Ibid. Montigny to Moustier, March 26, 1867, pp. 363–365. 52 Ministère des affaires éirangères, Siam IV (1867, April-December) 1868, 1869, (hereafter cited as Siam IV) petition of Siamese ambassadors, p. 1. 53 Ibid. Moustier to Aubaret, April 15, 1867...

..., the book falls decidedly short of its mark. JOSEPH J. WRIGHT Ohio University Divination in Thailand: The Hopes and Fears of a Southeast Asian People. By H. G. QUARITCH WALES. London: Curzon Press, 1983. xiii, 145 pp. Plates, Glossary, Index. $10.50. In perhaps his most famous works, Siamese State...

... at the Siamese court ( Boston , 1870 ), p. 239 . He is said never to have acquired a proficiency in French. 3 The term “Indo-China” without qualification means the peninsula — sometimes called Farther India. The correct name of the French dependency on that peninsula is “French Indo-China.” 4...

... . 14 Phillips H. P. , “Social Contract vs. Social Promise in a Siamese Village,” in Potter J. M. , Diaz M. N. , and Foster G. M. (eds.), Peasant Society: A Reader ( Boston : Little, Brown , 1967 ), p. 364 . 15 Hanks (n. 13 above), p. 1256. 16 Cf...