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Author : Nǣngnō̜i Saksī (M.R.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789749863411
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (634 download)
Download or read book The Grand Palace and Old Bangkok written by Nǣngnō̜i Saksī (M.R.) and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely revised guide to this exquisite complex of buildings.
Author : Chris Burslem
Publisher : Tales
ISBN 13 : 9789881998422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Tales of Old Bangkok written by Chris Burslem and published by Tales. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a patchwork of words and images from Bangkok's residents and visitors of yesteryear, this book shares the often untold past of this busy city while shedding light on Thai culture.
Author : Kenneth Barrett
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462913806
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)
Download or read book 22 Walks in Bangkok written by Kenneth Barrett and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ING_08 Review quote
Author : William Warren
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861891297
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Bangkok written by William Warren and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bangkok" is an informal portrait of the city, where the districts and cities of modern Bangkok are explored in a series of personal impressions of the people, their customs, cuisines and modern life.
Author : Alex Kerr
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141987189
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Another Bangkok written by Alex Kerr and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Another Kyoto and Lost Japan, a rich, personal exploration of the culture and history of Bangkok, and an essential guide for anyone visiting the city Alex Kerr has spent over thirty years of his life living in Bangkok. As with his bestselling books on Japan, this evocative personal meditation explores the city's secret corners. Here is the huge, traffic-choked metropolis of concrete high-rises, slums and sky trains; but also a place of peace and grace. Looking afresh at everything from ceramics to Thai dance, flower patterns to old houses, Kerr reveals one of Asia's most kaleidoscopically complex cities. Another Bangkok will delight both those who think they know the city well and those visiting for the first time.
Author : Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0525534768
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Bangkok Wakes to Rain written by Pitchaya Sudbanthad and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A house in the center of Bangkok becomes the point of confluence where lives are shaped by upheaval, memory, and the lure of home. Witness to two centuries' flux in one of the world's most restless cities, a house plays host to longings and losses past, present, and future. A nineteenth-century missionary doctor pines for the comforts of New England even as he finds the vibrant foreign chaos of Siam increasingly difficult to resist. A post-war society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting the course of her future. A jazz pianist is summoned in the 1970s to conjure music that will pacify resident spirits, even as he's haunted by ghosts of his former life. Not long after, a young woman gives swimming lessons in the luxury condos that have eclipsed the old house, trying to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in the post-submergence Bangkok of the future, a band of savvy teenagers guides tourists and former residents past waterlogged, ruined landmarks, selling them tissues to wipe their tears for places they themselves do not remember. Time collapses as these stories collide and converge, linked by blood, memory, yearning, chance, and the forces voraciously making and remaking the amphibian, ever-morphing city itself"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Lawrence Chua
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824887735
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
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.
Author : Michael Herzfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633175X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Siege of the Spirits written by Michael Herzfeld and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when three hundred alleged squatters go head-to-head with an enormous city government looking to develop the place where they live? As anthropologist Michael Herzfeld shows in this book, the answer can be surprising. He tells the story of Pom Mahakan, a tiny enclave in the heart of old Bangkok whose residents have resisted authorities’ demands to vacate their homes for a quarter of a century. It’s a story of community versus government, of old versus new, and of political will versus the law. Herzfeld argues that even though the residents of Pom Mahakan have lost every legal battle the city government has dragged them into, they have won every public relations contest, highlighting their struggle as one against bureaucrats who do not respect the age-old values of Thai/Siamese social and cultural order. Such values include compassion for the poor and an understanding of urban space as deeply embedded in social and ritual relations. In a gripping account of their standoff, Herzfeld—who simultaneously argues for the importance of activism in scholarship—traces the agile political tactics and styles of the community’s leadership, using their struggle to illuminate the larger difficulties, tensions, and unresolved debates that continue to roil Thai society to this day.
Author : Jen Balisi
Publisher : Page Street Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1645674118
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Indulgent Eats at Home written by Jen Balisi and published by Page Street Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the #Droolworthy Dishes of Your Foodie Dreams Pack your forks for the culinary trip of a lifetime with Instagram sensation Indulgent Eats! In Jen Balisi’s globally-inspired cookbook, she teaches you how to cook up vibrant and viral flavors from your Instagram feed. Get ready to wow your friends and followers as you tackle the techniques behind the most Instagrammable recipes. Start your morning sunny-side up with jiggly Japanese Pancakes with Togarashi Maple Bacon, then fry up some #PocketsofLove for lunch, like Jen’s Cheesy Pork and Plantain Empanadas or a skillet of crispy gyoza. Craving carbs for dinner? Stir up a Kimchi Fried Rice Volcano or #SendNoods with some Smoky Spicy Vodka Fusilli. Or whip up a weekend feast of comforting Khachapuri (Georgian Cheese Bread) and ultra-satisfying Filipino Sizzling Pork Belly Sisig. And be sure to keep your phone handy—every recipe includes a QR code that’ll link you to all of Jen’s exclusive behind-the-scenes content. Check out her signature videos for the incredible inspiration behind every dish, as well as helpful tips and tricks to cook each recipe like a pro. This show-stopping cookbook is bursting with gorgeous photography and dozens of indulgent meals. So whip out your passport and travel the world, one bite at a time.
Author : Claudio Sopranzetti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487526415
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book King of Bangkok written by Claudio Sopranzetti and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English translation of this best-selling graphic novel tells the story of Nok, an old blind man who sells lottery tickets in Bangkok, as he decides to leave the city and return to his native village. Through reflections on contemporary Bangkok and flashbacks to his past, Nok reconstructs a journey through the slums of migrant workers, the rice fields of Isaan, the tourist villages of Ko Pha Ngan, and the Red Shirt protests of 2010. Based on a decade of anthropological research, The King of Bangkok is a story of migration to the city, distant families in the countryside, economic development eroding the land, and violent political protest. Ultimately, it is a story about contemporary Thailand and how the waves of history lift, engulf, and crash against ordinary people.
Author : Edward Van Roy
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9814762857
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
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 277 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.
Author : Lawrence Osborne
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 : 9780099535973
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Bangkok Days written by Lawrence Osborne and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourists come to Bangkok for many reasons: a night of love, a stay in a luxury hotel, or simply to disappear for a while. Lawrence Osborne comes for the cheap dentistry, and then stays when he finds he can live off just a few dollars a day. Osborne's Bangkok is a vibrant, instinctual city full of contradictions. He wanders the streets, dining on insects, trawling through forgotten neighbourhoods, decayed temples and sleazy bars. Far more than a travel book, Bangkok Days explores both the little-known, extraordinary city and the lives of a handful of doomed ex-patriates living there, 'as vivid a set of liars and losers as was ever invented by Graham Greene' (New York Times).
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Publisher : River Books
ISBN 13 : 9786164510340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Vanishing Bangkok written by and published by River Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique angle on a city popular with tourists This stunning black and white photographic book takes us on a journey through the forgotten backstreets and hidden neighborhoods of Bangkok revealing the fragile beauty and faded charm of the city that is about to disappear forever beneath a tidal wave of development. From the splendid Old Customs House perched on the banks of the Chao Phraya river to the vibrant communities of Chinatown and sleepy canals lost in time, it evokes a city that despite successive waves of modernization still boasts an extraordinarily rich and diverse cultural heritage.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Mid-Pacific Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Far-Eastern Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Askew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Bangkok written by Marc Askew and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denis Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317800788
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Counterheritage written by Denis Byrne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim that heritage practice in Asia is Eurocentric may be well-founded, but the view that local people in Asia need to be educated by heritage practitioners and governments to properly conserve their heritage distracts from the responsibility of educating oneself about the local-popular beliefs and practices which constitute the bedrock of most people’s engagement with the material past. Written by an archaeologist who has long had one foot in the field of heritage practice and another in the academic camp of archaeology and heritage studies, Counterheritage is at once a forthright critique of current heritage practice in the Asian arena and a contribution to this project of self-education. Popular religion in Asia – including popular Buddhism and Islam, folk Catholicism, and Chinese deity cults – has a constituency that accounts for a majority of Asia’s population, making its exclusion from heritage processes an issue of social justice, but more pragmatically it explains why many heritage conservation programs fail to gain local traction. This book describes how the tenets of popular religion affect building and renovation practices and describes how modernist attempts to suppress popular religion in Asia in the early and mid-twentieth century impacted religious ‘heritage.’ Author Denis Byrne argues that the campaign by archaeologists and heritage professionals against the private collecting and ‘looting’ of antiquities in Asia largely ignores the regimes of value which heritage discourse has helped erect and into which collectors and local diggers play. Focussing on the Philippines, Thailand, and Taiwan but also referencing China and other parts of Southeast Asia, richly detailed portraits are provided of the way people live with ‘old things’ and are affected by them. Narratives of the author’s fieldwork are woven into arguments built upon an extensive and penetrating reading of the historical and anthropological literature. The critical stance embodied in the title ‘counterheritage’ is balanced by the optimism of the book’s vision of a different practice of heritage, advocating a view of heritage objects as vibrant, agentic things enfolded in social practice rather than as inert and passive surfaces subject to conservation.
