The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen
Author: Chris Baker
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9786162150845
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Author: Chris Baker
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9786162150845
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Publisher: Silkworm Books
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1631029606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis outstanding classic of the Thai language is an entertaining folk epic set in the social panorama of traditional Siam. The tale is a spectacular love story rich in romance, adventure, violence, farce, and magic, and ending in the tragic and enigmatic death of its heroine. Written in lively prose, this new, abridged edition retains every scene, incident, and significant dialogue from the full prize-winning English translation, except for one short section. The great Thai linguist William Gedney believed that “if all other information on traditional Thai culture were to be lost, the whole complex could be reconstructed from this marvelous text.” What others are saying “An excellent English translation of a Thai classic, which in its depth, quality, and readability might very well count as a landmark in Thai studies.”—Peter Skilling, co-editor of How Theravada is Theravada? “Spellbinding”—Jeff Kingston, professor of Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan Highlights • Abridged edition of the full translation published in 2010 • Retains all the scenes and dialogues from the full edition, except for one section • Includes over 30 distinctive drawings from the full translation
Author: Christopher John Baker
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9786162151316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first essay arise out of the crucible of Thailand's social upheaval and student protest movement in the early 1970's, when Thai literacy criticism was nascent. They argue that the tale shows a society without principle, and the characters reveal the latent aggression that resides universally in the human psyche. The remaining three essays originated a generation or more later. The third essay contends that the tale was designed to teach Buddhist morality by employing the Three Worlds cosmography and the law of karma. The fourth essay analyzes the forest as a metaphorical space for the recovery of selfhood, and the final essay examines the tale as a manual that gives crucial guidance on power and politics--
Author: Chris Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-11
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1107190762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
Author: Siburapha
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2024-10-10
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1802065725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Thailand’s best-known and most highly regarded novels, portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman ‘In that tranquil and apparently very ordinary picture, I see everything unfolding. Every scene, every part, from the beginning to the final act’ Nopporn, a Thai student studying in Japan, is tasked with hosting a distinguished old family friend and his new wife, the beautiful, aristocratic Kirati. Despite their difference in age and status, and the social constraints of the day, Nopporn and Kirati are inexorably drawn to each other, and love starts to bloom. A stirring portrayal of youthful romantic obsession, and later attempts to come to terms with the frailty of passionate feelings, Behind the Painting also shows the constrained lives of many women of the time. First published in 1937, it is one of Thailand’s best-known and most beloved novels. Translated by David Smyth
Author: Christopher John Baker
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Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9786162151255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten after a battle fought in approximately 1475, this poem may be the oldest work of literature from Siam. It features the earliest and most detailed description of a Siamese army, the most elaborate eulogy of an early Thai monarch, and a fascinating discussion of the concept of loyalty. Scenes of personal treachery, heroism, combat, and looting after victory give an absorbing image of early Siam. This translation shares the poem--esteemed in Thailand for its historical and literary importance--with a wider audience. Blank verse conveys the rhythm and atmosphere of the original, and annotations explain obscure words and concepts. An afterword analyzes form, content, and the poem's literary and historical significance.
Author: Nitaya Masavisut
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslation of Southeast Asian Write Award winning stories and poems organized by International PEN Thai Centre.
Author: Vincent J. LiCata
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCocktail is a play about one woman's audacious crusade to fight the AIDS epidemic and the pharmaceutical industry's unyielding control over lifesaving drugs. Scientist-activist Dr. Krisana Kraisintu defied politicians, patents, and drug manufacturers to give the world its first generic "cocktail" pill for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, changing the course of HIV in her native Thailand and in Africa.
Author: Susan Fulop Kepner
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranslator Susan F. Kepner makes these tales available for the first time to English-language readers. She introduces the tales with a lively discussion of the writer and her context, retells the plotline of the classical Ramakian, and then presents the translated tales, in which the demon king, contrary to expectation, is a most gentle and endearing demon. Finally, she reveals the humor embedded in these tales of family life, and in Sida's, or Everywoman's, marriage to the demon king.
Author: Khamsing Srinawk
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 0
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