00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685675941122066384 Buklod 20230830151449.0 a r |||| u| ta 230830s2009 th r |000 0|eng 9789749511633 15626173 BC-73631 Gift- Dr. Yeoh Seng Guan OLC BAG rda eng DS 586 C43 2009 Chang Noi author. Jungle book Thailand's politics, moral panic, and plunder, 1996-2008 Chang Noi. Thailand's politics, moral panic, and plunder, 1996-2008. Chiang Mai, Thailand Silkworm Books [2009] vii, 247 pages 22 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier "Selected columns"--Cover. The coup leader who believed he was the reincarnation of an eighteenth-century king. The godfather who was slashed to death by a machete on the orders of his son. The party boss who taught his followers how to negotiate corruption with hand signals. The general whose political career charts the destruction of Burmese forests. Thai politics often seem wild. For a dozen years, Chang Noi (the pseudonym means Little Elephant) has been stomping around this jungle, kicking up leaves, overturning rotten wood, and trumpeting in distress. This selection from the widely read column in The Nation newspaper provides lively, readable commentary on twelve years of change in Thailand's politics, society, culture, and environment. Drawing on a long-range historical perspective and an ample supply of dry humor, the columns have sometimes provoked Thailand's richest and most powerful figures to threaten lawsuits. This collection is a rich and fascinating kaleidoscope of the political and social jungle that is Thailand. Chang Noi first padded onto The Nation's editorial pages in April 1996. The name is a thinly veiled pseudonym for Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker, authors of Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand and Thailand's Boom and Bust. Moral panics Thailand 20th century Newspapers. Moral panics Thailand 21st century Newspapers. Art thefts Thailand 20th century Newspapers. Art thefts Thailand 21st century Newspapers. Thailand Politics and government 1988- Newspapers. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN DS 586 C43 2009 Book