Alternate identities : The Chinese of contemporary Thailand / Tong Chee Kiong and Chan Kwok Bun, eds.
Imprint
Singapore : Times Academic Press, 2001
Edition
1st ed
Descript
329 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Positionality and alternation: identity of the Chinese of contemporary Thailand -- rethinking assimilation and ethnicity: the Chinese of Thailand -- pigtail: a prehistory of chineseness in Siam -- Chinese identity in Thailand -- Chinese settlers and their role in modern Thailand -- ethnicity and world view in Bangkok -- left behind by the boom: Chinese merchants in provincial Thailand in the era of rapid economic growth -- sino-Thai entrepreneurs and the provincial economies in Thailand -- preservation of ethnic identity and acculturation -- Chinese literacy in a Bangkok Chinese family -- Wang Thong: civic identity and ethnicity in a Thai market town -- sino-Thai ethnic identity: married daughters of China and daughters-in-law of Thailand -- tradition, identity and religious eclecticism among Chinese in Thailand.