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The Paradox Of Sacred Consumption In The Case Of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Hidetake Yano
The Paradox Of Sacred Consumption In The Case Of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Hidetake Yano
Asian Review
This study analyzes the complicated relationship between consumer society and religious activities, focusing on the activities of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a movement whose followers have increased since the 1970s, especially among the new urban middle classes in Thailand. With regard to the activities of the temple, there appear to be two different images. Outsiders criticize the temple for religious practice which promote consumerism and worldly desire, but followers of the temple claim their religious practice is a protection against contemporary stimuli of worldly desire. These views are not necessarily incongruous if the temple's activities are considered within the framework of …
Introduction, Suwanna Satha-Anand
Desiring Revolution And Revolutionary Desire: Gender, Sexuality, And Politics In Three Cultural Revolution Memoirs, Ka F. Wong
Asian Review
The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), one of the darkest moments in twentieth-century Chinese history, has long been seen as a political tragedy linked with power struggles, ruthless violence, and even mass hysteria, but never with "sex." Personal accounts of the events complicate the public narrative, however. In three Red Guard memoirs—Anchee Min's Red Azalea (1995), Rae Yang's Spider Eaters (1997), and Liang Xiaosheng's Confession of a Red Guard (Yige hongweibing di zibai, 1988), the writers drastically contradict the typical perception, recounting revolutionary experiences that were charged with sexual escapades and erotic fantasies. Rather than producing a "sexless" young generation of Red …
Crime Of Passion: Justice And Emotion, Nuangnoi Boonyanate
Crime Of Passion: Justice And Emotion, Nuangnoi Boonyanate
Asian Review
This paper argues that, in the case of crimes of passion, women's groups should not demand a single standard of punishment for both men and women, and the abolition of the judge's discretion, but rather a different framework for understanding anger in the case of men and women respectively. The judgment in the controversial "Doctor Killing his Wife" case, committed five years ago in Bangkok, suggests that the understanding of emotion or passion on the pan of the judge, and possibly of the Thai justice system, is non-cognitive. As a result, any deep understanding of the mentality and of the …
The Gender Of The Sangha And The Reform And Bureaucratization Of Thai Buddhism, Varaporn Chamsanit
The Gender Of The Sangha And The Reform And Bureaucratization Of Thai Buddhism, Varaporn Chamsanit
Asian Review
This paper casts a gender lens on the history of the Thai Buddhist monkhood and the monastic order, or the sangha, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that the historical development of the Thai Buddhist sangha has been a gendered process, in which the exclusive maleness of the sangha has had to be maintained and reconsolidated over time to keep it a predominantly male domain. This was particularly the case during the period of Buddhist reform and bureaucratization of the sangha, which is the focus of this paper. In this gendered historical process, women were often …
Counter-Movements In Democratic Transition: Thai Rightwing Movements After The 1973 Popular Uprising, Prajak Kongkirati
Counter-Movements In Democratic Transition: Thai Rightwing Movements After The 1973 Popular Uprising, Prajak Kongkirati
Asian Review
After 1973, the Thai student movement was limited and weakened by several right-wing movements that collectively operated as counter-movements. This paper explores the factors and processes that account for the emergence and success of these counter-movements. The impact of the student movement, the changing political rules, and the incapacity of the Thai elite to employ old tactics to crush the student movement created critical conditions for a counter-movement to mobilize. Such conditions, however, cannot guarantee success. The success of the right-wing movements resulted from three factors: 1) effective organization and framing; 2) fragmentation of authority; and 3) state inaction. This …
Causal Patterns And Chance In The Narratives Of Jorge Luis Borges, Suradech Chotiudompant
Causal Patterns And Chance In The Narratives Of Jorge Luis Borges, Suradech Chotiudompant
Asian Review
The essay investigates how the narratives of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges explore the role of the human mind in problematizing, and intervening in, the causal pattern, thereby exposing the reader to an awareness that causal patterns are no longer a transcendental system, but an open-ended procedure in which our mind always has a part to play. The first part of the essay discusses how Borges, especially in his short story 'Emma Zunz,' views causality as a complex human construct. The second part analyzes Borges's treatment of chance in 'El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan' (The garden of forking …
Severing Body From Mind: The Cartesian Model Revisited, Supakwadee Amatayakul
Severing Body From Mind: The Cartesian Model Revisited, Supakwadee Amatayakul
Asian Review
This paper attempts to reevaluate Descartes's doctrines of mindbody distinctness and mind-body union and their contribution to feminist theories. The understanding that Descartes's substance dualism establishes an absolute demarcation between mind and body is philosophically misleading, especially when his investigations of "genuine human beings" that are capable of having "passions" are considered. Descartes's accounts of the mind-body union and the passions can be interpreted as consistent with feminist tenets and thus deemed a possible resource for feminist philosophical analyses.
The Tumen River Area Development Program, Chanwoo Lee
The Tumen River Area Development Program, Chanwoo Lee
Asian Review
The development of the Tumen River area, located where the borders of China, Russia, and the DPRK meet, has been conducted in a multilateral framework since the collapse of the Cold War structure around 1990. However development has been obstructed by differences of opinion, a dearth of experience of international cooperation on the part of the participating countries, lack of an institutional base, absence of a country that can provide leadership, limits on the supply of development finance, and lack of information exchange between participating countries. In 2005 the participating government agreed to extend the project to 2015, and expand …
Towards An Asean Economic Community And A Freer Flow Of Persons, Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
Towards An Asean Economic Community And A Freer Flow Of Persons, Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
Asian Review
The transnational flows of persons has become an important topic in ASEAN integration following the ASEAN initiative to liberalize trade in services, and with the new vision to achieve an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015. But the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services is vague, inconsistent, and lacking in implementation mechanisms. I argue that a freer flow of persons can contribute to the interests of both states and the region, but requires many changes in the commitment of ASEAN member states, working practices, and institutions within ASEAN.
Asean's Fta Strategy In East Asia, Suthiphand Chirathivat
Asean's Fta Strategy In East Asia, Suthiphand Chirathivat
Asian Review
Since the 1997 financial crisis, ASEAN countries have become involved individually and regionally in the accelerating trend towards bilateral free trade agreements. Singapore began the trend, followed by Thailand, and then other countries including Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. ASEAN also accepted China's proposal for an agreement with the grouping as a whole, leading to similar negotiations with Japan, India and South Korea. A complex web of bilateral agreements is emerging. At present it is not clear how this will affect ASEAN's progress towards deeper regional integration.
Development In The Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle, Toh Mun Heng
Development In The Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle, Toh Mun Heng
Asian Review
In this article, I explore whether regional economic cooperation in the form of growth triangles, made popular during the late 1980s, can continue to be relevant in the face of more formal arrangements such as free trade agreements and other bilateral initiatives in recent years. The discussion is focussed on the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore growth triangle which is a pioneering arrangement in Southeast Asia. This project continues to be a successful mode of cooperation among the three countries and will remain a key and subtle framework for regional economic collaboration amidst the plethora of other initiatives. Growth triangles are one of several …
Kunming-Lao Cai-Hanoi-Haiphong Economic Corridor, Nguyen Xuan Thang
Kunming-Lao Cai-Hanoi-Haiphong Economic Corridor, Nguyen Xuan Thang
Asian Review
The paper starts with a brief introduction to the concept of an economic corridor as background to outlining the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, opportunities and difficulties in the development of the Kunming-Lao Cai-Hanoi-Haiphong Economic Corridor, one of the two economic corridors and one coastal economic belt that were approved by the governments of Vietnam and China in June 2006 for the development of the two countries and the region as a whole. The paper argues that this corridor has good prospects because of its important role in ASEAN China economic relations, and because of the strong political will on the …
Introduction: Regional And Subregional Cooperation And Integration In East Asia, Mya Than
Introduction: Regional And Subregional Cooperation And Integration In East Asia, Mya Than
Asian Review
No abstract provided.
The Future Of East Asian Regionalism: Forging A Common Vision, Richard W. X. Hu
The Future Of East Asian Regionalism: Forging A Common Vision, Richard W. X. Hu
Asian Review
No abstract provided.
Energy Competition And Cooperation In The Bimstec Region: Potential And Prospects For Myanmar, Myat Thein, Myoe Myint
Energy Competition And Cooperation In The Bimstec Region: Potential And Prospects For Myanmar, Myat Thein, Myoe Myint
Asian Review
This paper explores the prospects for Myanmar to contribute towards energy cooperation in the region while at the same time promoting sustainable development at home. Myanmar has large unused reserves of renewables, especially hydropower and biomass. Natural gas contributes to export earnings, but oil imports are growing. India and China have large appetites for energy. Myanmar, along with Bhutan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, have unused potential which could contribute to export earnings and growth through export to these large neighbors. However the development of these reserves requires regional cooperation, especially for investment in distribution grids. Currently Myanmar's energy policy is unfocused. …
Land Reform In Vietnamese Literature, Montira Rato
Land Reform In Vietnamese Literature, Montira Rato
Asian Review
Even now, Vietnamese historians are reluctant to criticize the land reform campaign of the mid 1950s. However, four novels published between 1988 and 1992 seem determined to locate this traumatic event in the collective social memory. All four are partly based on personal experience, but have different perspectives. One from the viewpoint of a cadre records the damage to the social fabric but blames it on the stupidity of the peasants, and sees all those involved as pawns of history. The second, written from the viewpoint of a landlord, uses irony to examine the lack of justice and morality in …
The Network Of Indian Textile Merchants In Thai Society, Inthira Sahee
The Network Of Indian Textile Merchants In Thai Society, Inthira Sahee
Asian Review
In the second half of the nineteenth century, merchants from western India developed a network to sell textile products to a growing mass market in Thailand. This network expanded further in the early twentieth century, especially through the use of traveling salesmen, and import of cheaper Japanese goods. In the 1930s and 1940s, the network had to adjust to changes in both Thai domestic politics, and international politics (especially the Indian independence movement). The Indian cloth merchants' trading network from 1857 to 1947 was characterized by mutual business interests, and cooperation among groups of different geographic background.
Introduction, Piyanart Bunnag
The Chinese Community In Bangkok During The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century, Piyanart Bunnag
The Chinese Community In Bangkok During The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century, Piyanart Bunnag
Asian Review
When treaties were made with Western nations, starting with the Bowring Treaty in 1855, more Chinese migrated to Siam. They began to play a greater role in the economy, particularly as middlemen between Western traders and local citizens, but also in other roles in the export-oriented economy such as compradors, pawnbrokers, retailers, wholesalers, bankers, and owners of such enterprises as printing houses and factories. Some worked as common laborers at the docks, factories, and rice mills. During the second half of the nineteenth century, business expanded along new roads, causing environmental changes, crowding, congestion, disorder, and pollution. Fires became common, …
The Japanese Army And Thailand's Southern Railways During The Greater East Asia War, 1941-1945, Puengthip Kiattisahakul
The Japanese Army And Thailand's Southern Railways During The Greater East Asia War, 1941-1945, Puengthip Kiattisahakul
Asian Review
As part of their attempt to establish a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, Japanese military leaders took control of Thailand's southern railways to provided direct links to frontline battlefields in Burma and Malaya. They ran special troops from Bangkok to Malaya, and built two new railway tracks extending into Burma. These tracks were used for transporting rice to its troops in Malaya, and to transport troops and war equipment to Burma. Thailand suffered adverse effects. The Railway Department had to carry an enormous amount of loss as costs incurred by the Japanese army were left unpaid. The life and security …
The Concept Of "Development" And The Thai Government's Policies To Develop The Northeast, 1951-1966, Somsri Chaiwanichaya
The Concept Of "Development" And The Thai Government's Policies To Develop The Northeast, 1951-1966, Somsri Chaiwanichaya
Asian Review
After World War II, modernization theory was developed and became a dominant idea, employed by the United States to oppose communism and expand capitalism. The Thai and US governments saw the importance of developing the Northeast region of Thailand, because of both the region's "natural disadvantages" and its strategic location bordering Laos, Kampuchea, and Vietnam. The Phibun government (1951- 1957) launched programs to develop water resources and diversify crops, but initially had no overall plan. During the Sarit regime (1957—1966), a more structured plan emerged under the concept of "development for national security."
The Proactive Cosmopolitan Foreign Policy Of The European Union: The Burmese Issue Reconsidered, Piyapat Bunnag
The Proactive Cosmopolitan Foreign Policy Of The European Union: The Burmese Issue Reconsidered, Piyapat Bunnag
Asian Review
The European Union has turned away from the traditional notion of power politics and moved to assert instead soft civilian or normative power to influence the world. This paper examines the Union's foreign policy towards Myanmar looking from a constructivist perspective, focusing on the objectives of human rights and democratization. The paper sketches the constructivist approach to foreign policy, and then examines the evolution of the Union's foreign policy about human rights and democratization. Then this norm-based foreign policy and its effect on the Union's relations, and conflicts, with ASEAN over Burmese alleged human rights abuses will then come to …