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Posted DCO Thailand Woman, Man, Bangkok Love, Sex, and Popular Culture in Thailand Scot Barmé During the early decades of the twentieth century, Thailand's capital, Bangkok, took on an increasingly cosmopolitan character - a development fuelled both by global economic forces and a local revolution in communications. The 1920s, a particularly dynamic period of social and cultural transformation, had a profound impact on the development of Thai modernity. This book examines the growth of a polyphonous and often vociferous Thai public, a public that used a range of new media outlets to express themselves and clamour for a more just and equitable social order. Scot Barmé mines a rich lode of previously ignored cultural ephemera found in popular newspapers, magazines, novels, short stories, film booklets, and cartoons to create a vibrant cultural history of early modern Thailand that moves beyond conventional, elite-based historical studies of the period. By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms, and the growth of a commercial mass culture, this book offers a new interpretation of the key decade of the 1920s and its significance for contemporary Thailand. Scot Barmé is a visiting fellow in the division of Pacific and Asian history, Research School of Pacific and Asian, at The Australian National University. Click the above link/image for details of this book. Reply to this topic to add your review. Use the Rate It! link to submit your rating of this book.

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