Southeast Asia Collection Blog

Wolters, O. W. Early southeast asia : selected essays / O.W. Wolters ; edited by Craig J. Reynolds. Ithaca, New York : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University c2008.
This is an important work, though not for reasons one might suspect. It is a collection of scholarly essays on early Southeast Asian history and culture, all of [...]

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Na Tai : ngān wičhai čhāk chumchon chāidǣn Tai sū nayōbāi sāthārana. Nakhō̜n Pathom : Sūn Sưksā læ Phatthanā Santi Withī, Mahāwitthayālai Mahidon, 2551 [2008].
This volume, compiled by scholars from the Research Center for Peace Building at Mahidol University, brings together 16 essays and policy papers on the current social and political situation in Thailand’s [...]

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Chang Noi. Jungle book : Thailand’s politics, moral panic, and plunder, 1996-2008. Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 2009.
Chang Noi (a pseudonym, meaning ‘Little Elephant’) is at once one of the most respected and controversial newspaper columnists in Thailand today. Readers revere him for his trenchant insights, uncompromising integrity, and sardonic wit. At the same [...]

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Tai lands and Thailand : community and state in Southeast Asia / edited by Andrew Walker. Honolulu : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University Of Hawai’i Press, c2009.
This edited volume, featuring essays by Andrew Walker, Craig J. Reynolds, and Holly High, among other notable scholars, offers a new approach to the study [...]

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Stengs, Irene. Worshipping the great moderniser : King Chulalongkorn, patron saint of the Thai middle class. Singapore : NUS Press ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2009.
Every so often a book lands on my desk which is difficult, if not impossible, to summarize in a paragraph or two without feeling that I ought [...]

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Nimittramongkhon Nawarat, M.R., 1908-1948. M̄ưang Nimit læ chīwit h̄æng kānkabot s̨ōng khrang / [dōi] M̨ō. R̨ō. W̨ō. Nimitmongkhon Nawarat. [Phranakh̨ōn : ʻAks̨ōn Samphan, 2513 i.e. 1970].
Not long ago I posted a few remarks about David Smyth’s new book, Khwāmfan kh̨ōng nakʻudomkhati. English. The dreams of an idealist : a victim of two political purges ; and, [...]

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Polenghi, Cesare. Samurai of Ayutthaya : Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam. Bangkok : White Lotus Press, 2009.
A fair number of historical accounts of European visitors to the kingdom of Ayutthaya have been published in English. Jeremias van Vliet, for example, is a familiar figure to historians of Thailand. This, however, [...]

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The Middle Mekong River Basin : studies in Tai history and culture / edited by Constance M. Wilson. DeKalb, Ill. : Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, c2009.
The essays in this collection, two of which (those written by John Hartman and Constance Wilson) were originally presented as papers at the International Convention of [...]

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A 20 million dollar Thai cultural complex, featuring a Buddhist temple, meditation center, restaurant, floating market, and other open air structures, is coming to Pataskala, Ohio. See the article in the Columbus Dispatch.

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Nimittramongkhon Nawarat, M.R. Khwāmfan kh̨ōng nakʻudomkhati. English. The dreams of an idealist : a victim of two political purges ; and, The emerald’s cleavage / by Nimitmongkol Navarat ; translated by David Smyth. Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books, 2009.
David Smyth has done a great service to students of Thai literature and history with the [...]

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