Worshipping the Great Moderniser. King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class.
Singapore. NUS Press. 2009. 328pp, paperback. In Thailand the globalising urban culture associated with the economic boom of the 1980s and 1990s gave rise to an alienating anomie. In the slipstream of this boom, an immense cult took shape around King Chulalongkorn the Great (r. 1868-1910) that reworked the idea..... More