A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand write by Patrick Jory. This book was released on 2021-01-07. A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An innovative new social history of Thailand told through the lens of changing ideals of manners, civility and behaviour.
Thailand's Theory of Monarchy
Thailand's Theory of Monarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thailand's Theory of Monarchy write by Patrick Jory. This book was released on 2016-05-09. Thailand's Theory of Monarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Since the 2006 coup d'état, Thailand has been riven by two opposing political visions: one which aspires to a modern democracy and the rule of law, and another which holds to the traditional conception of a kingdom ruled by an exemplary Buddhist monarch. Thailand has one of the world's largest populations of observant Buddhists and one of its last politically active monarchies. This book examines the Theravada Buddhist foundations of Thailand's longstanding institution of monarchy. Patrick Jory states that the storehouse of monarchical ideology is to be found in the popular literary genre known as the Jātakas, tales of the Buddha's past lives. The best-known of these, the Vessantara Jātaka, disseminated an ideal of an infinitely generous prince as a bodhisatta or future Buddha—an ideal which remains influential in Thailand today. Using primary and secondary source materials largely unknown in Western scholarship, Jory traces the history of the Vessantara Jātaka and its political-cultural importance from the ancient to the modern period. Although pressures from European colonial powers and Buddhist reformers led eventually to a revised political conception of the monarchy, the older Buddhist ideal of kingship has yet endured.
A History of Thailand
A History of Thailand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Thailand write by Chris Baker. This book was released on 2022-04-07. A History of Thailand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A History of Thailand offers a lively and accessible account of Thailand's political, economic, social, and cultural history.
Thailand
Thailand - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thailand write by Charnvit Kasetsiri. This book was released on 2022-04-29. Thailand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “As a historian, Charnvit Kasetsiri is not satisfied simply to have found an instructive angle from which to explore the mysteries in a modern experimental monarchy. His keen sense of time has filled his narrative with insights that only a few people could have identified. To me, that is a mark of one with a fine sense of what the past can mean. I thank him for the chance to see this mature and thoughtful Charnvit at work and commend this book to everyone who wants to understand Thailand better.” -- Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore “Charnvit makes clear in the final pages of Thailand: A Struggle for the Nation that he is not very sanguine about the country’s future. During Thailand’s democratic spring in 1974, the Thai constitution was changed to allow female succession. This apparent loosening of male prerogative had no effect on the reign change in 2016 when the designated male heir, Prince Vajiralongkorn, succeeded without challenge to become the tenth Bangkok king. Communism, long gone as the spectre that once haunted Thailand’s political order, has been replaced by another. The spectre now haunting Thailand is authoritarianism.” -- Craig J. Reynolds, Australian National University
The Languages of COVID-19
The Languages of COVID-19 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Languages of COVID-19 write by Piotr Blumczynski. This book was released on 2022-11-30. The Languages of COVID-19 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection advocates languages-based, translational research to be part of the partnerships and collaborations required to make sense of, and respond to, COVID-19 as one of the major global challenges of our time. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, this volume is bound by a common thread stressing the importance of linguistic sensitivity, (inter)cultural knowledge and translational mediation in the frontline response to COVID-19. Featuring contributors from around the world and reflecting on the language used to frame COVID-19 in diverse cultural contexts of the Global North and Global South, the book proposes that paying attention to the transmission of ideas, ideologies, narratives and history through processes of translation results in a broadening of social, cultural and medical understandings of COVID-19. Spanning nearly 20 signed and spoken languages, the volume argues that only in going beyond an Anglophone perspective can we better understand the cultural, social and political facets of the pandemic and, in turn, produce a comprehensive, efficient global response to disease management. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies, modern languages, applied linguistics, cultural studies, Deaf Studies, intercultural communication and medical humanities.
