Charnvit Kasetsiri
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Social Science Seminar Series (TS4) - Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and PRC-Thai Relations in the Post-Cold War
When: Thursday 14 July 2022, 9am CEST / 2pm TST / 5pm AEST
Where: Online via Zoom
Register here: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/.../WN_fjvcWkkeS8-8LNJXFQgbTA
Join Associate Professor Wasana Wongsurawat (Chulalongkorn University) as she discusses long-time Sinophile Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's role in bolstering ties between Thailand and the People's Republic of China.
Thailand is the only country in the Asia-Pacific rim that managed to de-democratize following the wave of democratization that swept across the region in the 1990s. An important factor contributing to this was the conservative elite’s ability to acquire a new external superpower patron—the People’s Republic of China—in support of undemocratic regimes in Southeast Asia once US influence had receded at the conclusion of the Cold War. The clientelistic relationship between the PRC and Thailand has been in the making since the 1970s and has been spearheaded by the conservatives all along. Since the 1990s, HRH Sirindhorn has become the most important personality in the promotion of PRC-Thai relations. This has been an important factor contributing to the legitimacy and stability of the undemocratic regime of Gen. Prayuth Chan-o-cha since the 2014 coup and a key concern of the pro-democracy Milk Tea Alliance that has emerged in 2020.
Please note registration is essential. Should you have any questions or wish to discuss accessibility requirements, please feel free to email: sseac@sydney.edu.au
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2020 01 14 FCCT The Crown and the Capitalists The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation
Jan 15, 2020
FCCT Events
The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation — Book Launch and Discussion with Wasana Wongsurawat
Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia over the last two centuries, the Kingdom of Thailand – or Siam, as it was once known — has transformed itself into a rival modern nation-state. Recent historiography has put progress, or lack of it, toward Western-style liberal democracy at the center of Thailand’s narrative, but that view underestimates the importance of the colonial context. In particular, a long-standing relationship with China and the existence of a large and influential Chinese diaspora within Thailand have shaped development at every stage.
As the emerging nation struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs were neither a colonial force against whom “Thainess” was identified, nor were they able to fully assimilate into Thai society. Author and academic Wasana Wongsurawat argues in her new book “The Crown and the Capitalists” (University of Washington Press) that Thailand’s transformation into a modern nation-state required the creation of a national identity that justified not only the hegemonic rule of monarchy but also the involvement of the ethnic Chinese entrepreneurial class on whom they depended.
Her revisionist view traces the evolution of this codependent relationship through the 20th century, as Thailand struggled against colonial forces in Southeast Asia, found itself an ally of Japan in World War II, and transformed its relationship with China in the postwar era.
One of Thailand’s leading experts on the history of Thai-Chinese, Dr Wasana is a faculty member of Chulalongkorn University’s department of history and has authored numerous books and papers on themes ranging from education to history and politics of the Thai-Chinese, including their role during the Cold War era in Thailand.
