Five Studies on Khun Chang Khun Phaen

The Many Faces of a Thai Literary Classic
Herausgeber: Baker, Chris; Phongpaichit, Pasuk

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Produktbeschreibung

Chris Baker is a historian and long-time resident of Thailand. Pasuk Phongpaichit is professor of economics at Chulalongkorn University. In 2010 they won the A. L. Becker Southeast Asian Literature in Translation Prize for their translation of Khun Chang Khun Phaen. Contributors: M. L. Boonlua Debyasuvarn, Cholthira Satyawadhna, Warunee Osatharom, and David C. Atherton

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Silkworm Books
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9786162151316
• ISBN-10: 616215131X
• Artikelnr.: 48148970

Autorenporträt

Chris Baker is a historian and long-time resident of Thailand. Pasuk Phongpaichit is professor of economics at Chulalongkorn University. In 2010 they won the A. L. Becker Southeast Asian Literature in Translation Prize for their translation of Khun Chang Khun Phaen. Contributors: M. L. Boonlua Debyasuvarn, Cholthira Satyawadhna, Warunee Osatharom, and David C. Atherton

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Society Which Lacks Principle / M. L. Boonlua Debyasuvarn
2. The Aggression of Characters in Khun Chang Khun Phaen / Cholthira
Satyawadhna
3. Khun Chang Khun Phaen and the Moral Landscape of the Three Worlds
Cosmology / Warunee Osatharom
4. Space, Identity, and Self-Definition: The Forest in Khun Chang Khun
Phaen / David C. Atherton
5. The Revolt of Khun Phaen: Contesting Power in Early Modern Siam / Chris
Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit