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Asian Studies across Academies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2014

Thongchai Winichakul
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Let me begin with a conversation I had with the late David Wyatt of Cornell University, a prominent historian of Thailand and the 1993 president of the AAS, at one of the AAS meetings in Boston. I asked Professor Wyatt, what was the question about Thai history he got most often from Thai colleagues? His answer was:

  1. 1) Was the execution of the king in 1782 by the founder of the current dynasty legitimate? If not, why did he do it?

  2. 2) Was the death of another king in 1946 an accident, a suicide, or an assassination, and if it was the last one, who did it?

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 73 , Issue 4 , November 2014 , pp. 879 - 897
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 

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