Bangkok Utopia: Modern Architecture and Buddhist Felicities, 1910–1973, Lawrence Chua
Автор: Chua, Lawrence Название: Bangkok utopia ISBN: 0824884604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824884604 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 9405.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: 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 entrep?t. 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.
Автор: Wojciechowska Marisha Название: Bangkok: City of Angels (My Globetrotter Book) ISBN: 1999215923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781999215927 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1786.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Kids - Take a trip around the globe, and discover the fun and exciting adventures that await you
What do you see in the temples? Crack a monk's daily schedule. Search for coordinates in the floating market. Can you really eat grasshoppers? Help a tuk-tuk find its way. Draw a Royal Barge on the Chao Phraya. And so much more.
28 pages of games, educational puzzles and fun, for children 6 to 12 years. Brightly illustrated pages brimming with activities to explore culture and customs, some history, sites of interest, food, language, and much more. As a bonus, crack a secret code to print the seal and stick it on to your very own Globetrotter Certificate
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Автор: Bazant Sharon Название: Nine Years in Bangkok: Lessons Learned ISBN: 1644389975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644389973 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4357.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Nine Years in Bangkok represents the author`s odyssey of workplace trials, personal struggles, and loss-culminating in a spiritual metamorphosis that changed the course of her life. This is a story of adversity, lessons learned and ultimate transformation.
Автор: Van Roy Edward Название: Siamese Melting Pot: Ethnic Minorities in the Making of Bangkok ISBN: 9814762830 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814762830 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3135.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 books 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.
Where would you go to church if you found yourself far from home, in another country, perhaps one with a different language than you know?
Many people have that question as they travel, or as they live and work around the world. The body of Christ has not been inactive in providing for their need. Around the world, international churches have been planted, serving the needs of diverse, mobile congregations, speaking multiple languages, but finding themselves in one place and of one accord for the gospel.
From Bangkok to Bishkek, Budapest to Bogot is the fascinating and inspiring history of the over 2,000 international, English language, Protestant churches scattered in almost every non-English-speaking country around the world. Serving expatriates, travelers, students and others who live outside their homeland, these churches, while often unknown or recognized, provide a compelling story of ministry not only to expats but to English-speaking local citizens as well.
This history, and these stories, will inspire you and energize you with the realization of the way in which God's work is carried out in so many different localities and situations. Pastors, missionaries, business travelers, and international students can all benefit from reading this book, while researchers looking into the work of the church around the world will find a wealth of historical information, much of it first hand.
Автор: Cummings Kevin Название: Bangkok Beat ISBN: 0692396454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692396452 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1992.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Stelmack S. M. Название: Gina Takes Bangkok ISBN: 0991869877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991869879 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2242.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Weary from running his printing business in Southern California, Scott Mallon hops on a jet bound for Thailand with three bags and $10,000 to his name. Originally planned as a one year sabbatical, his journey ends up as a twenty year stay. In They Call Me Farang, Mallon delivers a timeless collection of insightful, compelling short stories in the only way he knows, with dry humor and a straightforward, no holds barred voice.Learn what life is really like as an expatriate in Thailand; there is action, advice, comedy, love and of course, plenty of commentary on Thailand's beautiful women. Get all the gritty details in this semi-autobiographical account of his two decades in the country.
Life in Bangkok for young people is marked by profound, interlocking changes and transitions. This book offers an ethnographic account of growing up in the city's slums, struggling to get by in a rapidly developing and globalizing economy and trying to fulfil one's dreams. At the same time, it reflects on the issue of agency, exploring its negative potential when exercised by young people living under severe structural constraint. It offers an antidote to neoliberal ideas around personal responsibility, and the assumed potential for individuals to break through structures of constraint in any sustained way.
Автор: Peffer Randall Название: Provincetown Follie Bangkok Blues ISBN: 1440553947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440553943 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 1948.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An "offbeat legal procedural/whodunit" in the Cape Island mystery series set in Provincetown that "fans of Jonathan Ames's The Extra Man and other gending-bending fiction" (Publishers Weekly) will find intriguing. Luang kho ngu hao. Now I put my hand in the cobra's throat. Tuki Aparecio did not kill her lover. She did not burn down the Painted Lady--at least, not with fire. Tuki lit up the stage nightly, with her hair in braids and her glorious costumes; glittering, smoldering, singing her heart out for an audience who loved her. She brought the house down with her performances. But she's innocent of murder, innocent of arson. How can Michael DeCastro possibly hope to defend this beautiful drag queen, who brings with her a whole pack of nasty little secrets, straight from Bangkok's notorious tenderloin district? She speaks in aphorisms, the wisdom of the Buddha combined with the lyrics of Whitney Houston. She is fascinating. And Michael can't let her go to jail.
Автор: Woods Eddie Название: Tennessee Williams in Bangkok ISBN: 0934301719 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780934301718 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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