Download or read book The Chakri Dynasty written by Asjarin Leonowens and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the mid-1800s in Siam as King Mongkut busies himself creating children with his many wives. Out of his eighty-four offspring, Prince Damrong is the most intelligent and charming. Known as the kings jewel, Damrong is already being groomed for greatness. Meanwhile, his older brother, Prince Chaiya, is battling with his greedy and repulsive head wife, Mom-Yai. Prince Sapasart is battling with his head wife, MC Mouse, who is using his four-year-old son, Tong-Jue, as ammunition in achieving what she wants in life. Finally after Sapasart convinces another female family memberwho is battling her own internal demonsto take his son in as her own, sparks fly as the princes lives collide in a new twisted battle of the sexes. But little do they know that their challenges are just beginning. In this historical tale, two princes set off a chain of unfortunate events within their dynasty after they are led in different directions and to new destinies during the early nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Chakri Dynasty written by ʻĀphā Phamō̜nbut and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Account of the Thai kings in the Bangkok period, 1782 to present)
Download or read book The Chakri Monarchs and the Thai People written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nai Luang Beloved King of Thailand written by Tenzin Dawa and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej - King of Thailand - is divinely revered by his people. Still, during His Majesty's long reign of 65 years [as of 2011], the King has seen over 15 military coups, 16 constitutions, and 28 changes of prime ministers. The King has also used his influence to stop military coups, among others, including attempts in 1981 and 1985. It has often been said that the independence and integrity of Thailand is assured by three unifying factors: its people's carefree disposition, the tolerant Buddhist Religion, and the Thai Throne. For seven centuries Thailand has successfully survived as an independent country while countries all around in Southeast Asia disintegrated or fell victim of colonialist powers. For that reason, no Thai would now deny that as these unique and sacred institutions survive and flourish, so the Thai nation will also survive and flourish. Without either one of them, no one could foresee what Thailand would be like King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Queen Sirikit, and the Heir-apparent are legally considered "inviolable" and criticism can result in three to fifteen years imprisonment; although the King said in his 2005 birthday speech that he would not be offended by lese majeste, since "the King is human."
Download or read book Duthel Thailand Guide IV written by Heinz Duthel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duthel Thailand Guide IV. Chakri Dynasty Chakri Dynasty
Download or read book Chakri Dynasty written by Asjarin Patanangkura and published by . This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The King Never Smiles written by Paul M. Handley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world's longest-serving monarch. This book tells the unexpected story of his life and 60-year rule: how a Western-raised boy came to be seen by his people as a living Buddha; and how a king widely seen as beneficent and apolitical could in fact be so deeply political, autocratic, and even brutal. Paul Handley provides an extensively researched, factual account of the king's youth and personal development, ascent to the throne, skilful political maneuverings, and attempt to shape Thailand as a Buddhist kingdom. Blasting apart the widely accepted image of the king as egalitarian and virtuous, Handley convincingly portrays an anti-democratic monarch who, together with allies in big business and the corrupt Thai military, has protected a centuries-old, barely-modified feudal dynasty. When at nineteen Bhumibol assumed the throne after the still-unsolved shooting of his brother, the Thai monarchy had been stripped of power and prestige. Over the ensuing decades, Bhumibol became the paramount political actor in the kingdom, crushing critics while attaining high status among his people. The book details this process and depicts Thailand's unique constitutional monarch in the full light of the facts.
Download or read book Palaces of Bangkok written by Naengnoi Suksri and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides 11 palaces built by the Kings of the Chakri dynasty. Combines with 18 major palaces built for their sons. Details the history of each palace, its inhabitants and its architects.
Download or read book The King of Thailand in World Focus written by Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand and published by Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated volume provides an up-to-date account of the world's longest reigning living monarch as seen through the eyes of the international media.
Download or read book Palaces of Bangkok written by Nǣngnō̜i Saksī (M.R.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1782, when Bangkok became the new capital of Siam, King Rama I, the founder of the present Chakri dynasty, at once set abour recreating the glory of the old capital, Ayutthaya, with its beautiful temples and golden palaces. This is a study of the palaces built by the Chakri dynasty.
Download or read book Siamese Melting Pot written by Edward Van Roy and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic minorities historically comprised a solid majority of Bangkok's population. They played a dominant role in the city's exuberant economic and social development. In the shadow of Siam's prideful, flamboyant Thai ruling class, the city's diverse minorities flourished quietly. The Thai-Portuguese; the Mon; the Lao; the Cham, Persian, Indian, Malay, and Indonesian Muslims; and the Taechiu, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainanese, and Cantonese Chinese speech groups were particularly important. Others, such as the Khmer, Vietnamese, Thai Yuan, Sikhs, and Westerners, were smaller in numbers but no less significant in their influence on the city's growth and prosperity. In tracing the social, political, and spatial dynamics of Bangkok's ethnic pluralism through the two-and-a-half centuries of the city's history, this book calls attention to a long-neglected mainspring of Thai urban development. While the book's primary focus is on the first five reigns of the Chakri dynasty (1782-1910), the account extends backward and forward to reveal the continuing impact of Bangkok's ethnic minorities on Thai culture change, within the broader context of Thai development studies. It provides an exciting perspective and unique resource for anyone interested in exploring Bangkok's evolving cultural milieu or Thailand's modern history.
Download or read book A Regional Economic History of Thailand written by Porphant Ouyyanont and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an economic history of Bangkok, the Central Region, the North, the South, and Northeastern Regions from the signing of the Bowring Treaty in 1855 to the present. Most research has focused on Bangkok as the centre of change affecting other regions and has neglected other regions that had an influence on Bangkok. This book however looks at the changes not only in Bangkok, but also in the other regions, and emphasizes the ways in which Bangkok had an impact on the other regions, and how changes in the other regions affected Bangkok. It also looks, in turn, at each of the principal regions, and concentrate on the long-term economic and social changes and the various forces which promoted the changes.
Download or read book Lords of Life written by Prince Čhunlačhakkraphong (grandson of Chulalongkorn, King of Siam) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bangkok Utopia written by Lawrence Chua and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Utopia” is a word not often associated with the city of Bangkok, which is better known for its disorderly sprawl, overburdened roads, and stifling levels of pollution. Yet as early as 1782, when the city was officially founded on the banks of the Chao Phraya river as the home of the Chakri dynasty, its orientation was based on material and rhetorical considerations that alluded to ideal times and spaces. The construction of palaces, monastic complexes, walls, forts, and canals created a defensive network while symbolically locating the terrestrial realm of the king within the Theravada Buddhist cosmos. Into the twentieth century, pictorial, narrative, and built representations of utopia were critical to Bangkok’s transformation into a national capital and commercial entrepôt. But as older representations of the universe encountered modern architecture, building technologies, and urban planning, new images of an ideal society attempted to reconcile urban-based understandings of Buddhist liberation and felicitous states like nirvana with worldly models of political community like the nation-state. Bangkok Utopia outlines an alternative genealogy of both utopia and modernism in a part of the world that has often been overlooked by researchers of both. It examines representations of utopia that developed in the city—as expressed in built forms as well as architectural drawings, building manuals, novels, poetry, and ecclesiastical murals—from its first general strike of migrant laborers in 1910 to the overthrow of the military dictatorship in 1973. Using Thai- and Chinese-language archival sources, the book demonstrates how the new spaces of the city became arenas for modern subject formation, utopian desires, political hegemony, and social unrest, arguing that the modern city was a space of antinomy—one able not only to sustain heterogeneous temporalities, but also to support conflicting world views within the urban landscape. By underscoring the paradoxical character of utopias and their formal narrative expressions of both hope and hegemony, Bangkok Utopia provides an innovative way to conceptualize the uneven economic development and fractured political conditions of contemporary global cities.
Download or read book Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand written by Pavin Chachavalpongpun and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines two aspects of the abbreviated reign of King Ananda Mahidol (1935-1946), or King Rama VIII, of the current Chakri dynasty of Thailand. First, it discusses the royal family’s plot to thwart a romantic relationship between the young king, Ananda, and his Swiss girlfriend, Marileine Ferrari, a daughter of a famous pastor of Lausanne, Switzerland. Interracial marriage, particularly with Westerners, has been strictly forbidden for Thai kings or heirs apparent. The restriction stems from the interwoven connection between sexual relationship and the security of the throne. The second part investigates the mysterious death of King Ananda, a long-held taboo topic in Thailand. Although the two events were not specially related, both in their own way served to unavoidably shake the position of the monarchy and hence threaten its existence. The palace’s reactions to these events demonstrated its continuous search to maintain its power and ultimately to warrant its survival.
Download or read book King Bhumibol Adulyadej written by Nicholas Grossman and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2011 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chakri Dynasty and Thai Politics 1782 1982 written by Sukhumbhand Paribatra (M.R.) and published by . This book was released on 1983* with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
