1 VITAE THAK CHALOEMTIARANA Professor of Southeast Asian Studies Asian Literature, Religion and Culture The Graduate School Cornell University Publications and Papers: In English: Books: Thai Politics: Extracts and Documents, 1932-1957, (Bangkok: Social Sciences Association of Thailand, 1978) Thailand: the Politics of Despotic Paternalism (Bangkok: Social Sciences Association of Thailand, and Thai Khadi Institute of Thammasat University, 1979). This book received the first Ohira Prize in 1985 named after the late Japanese Prime Minister to honor outstanding books on Asia, the prize included a one million Yen award. The book was also translated and published in Thai by Phanni Chatphonlarak and M.R. Prakaithong Sirisuk in 1983, Thammasat University Press, and after it won the Ohira prize it was translated and published in Japan by Professor Yoshifumi Tamada of Kyoto University and marketed by Maruzen in 1989. Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2007); co-published in Thailand by Silkworm Press, 2007. This second edition contains a new Introduction and Postscript. It has been extensively edited, with new pictures, and an index. Reviewed in The Nation, October 7, 2007. Theses, articles, book chapters, and papers: "GESTAPU: Catalyst for Revolution," M.A. Thesis, Chevalier Program of Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College, 1968
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VITAE
THAK CHALOEMTIARANA
Professor of Southeast Asian Studies
Asian Literature, Religion and Culture
The Graduate School
Cornell University
Publications and Papers:
In English:
Books:
Thai Politics: Extracts and Documents, 1932-1957, (Bangkok: Social Sciences
Association of Thailand, 1978)
Thailand: the Politics of Despotic Paternalism (Bangkok: Social Sciences
Association of Thailand, and Thai Khadi Institute of Thammasat University, 1979).
This book received the first Ohira Prize in 1985 named after the late Japanese
Prime Minister to honor outstanding books on Asia, the prize included a one
million Yen award. The book was also translated and published in Thai by Phanni
Chatphonlarak and M.R. Prakaithong Sirisuk in 1983, Thammasat University
Press, and after it won the Ohira prize it was translated and published in Japan by
Professor Yoshifumi Tamada of Kyoto University and marketed by Maruzen in
1989.
Thailand: The Politics of Despotic Paternalism (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia
Program Publications, 2007); co-published in Thailand by Silkworm Press, 2007.
This second edition contains a new Introduction and Postscript. It has been
extensively edited, with new pictures, and an index. Reviewed in The Nation,
October 7, 2007.
Theses, articles, book chapters, and papers:
"GESTAPU: Catalyst for Revolution," M.A. Thesis, Chevalier Program of
Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College, 1968
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"The Sarit Regime, 1957-1963: the formative years of modern Thai politics," Ph.D.
dissertation, Department of Government, Cornell University, 1974
"The Evolution of the Monarchy and Government: Institutional Conflicts and
Change," Lauristan Sharp, ed., Asia, Asia Society, New York, Spring
1976
"The Overseas Chinese: Liability or Asset," review article of C.P. Fitzgerald, The
Overseas Chinese and Southeast Asia since 1945, (Australia: Longmans,
1973) in Problems of Communism, (March-April, 1977)
"Reflections on the Sarit Regime and the Process of Political Change in Thailand--
Some Conceptual and Theoretical Reassessments," Tonan Ajia Kenkyu
(Southeast Asian Studies Journal, Kyoto, Japan), XVI (December 1978)
"The Political Thought of Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat: A Paternalistic Political
System," Review of Social Sciences, 1977
"Thai political philosophy, power, and legitimacy," paper presented to the faculty
of CSEAS, Kyoto University, August 7, 1979
"Professionalism in the Modern Thai Army," paper presented at the Conference on
Political Systems and Development, Indian Council of Social Research,
New Delhi, India, February, 1980
“Thai political development and the role of the military,” three lectures delivered at
the University of Missouri, Columbia, November 1980
"Promising but Reluctant: Southeast Asian Studies in Thailand," with Sombat
Chantornwong in Tunku Shamsul Bahrin, et. al., A Colloquium on
Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
1981), pp. 171-184.
"Thailand: Political Crisis of the 1980's," a paper presented at the Asia Society,
New York, March 1981
"The Rise and Fall of the Thai Young Turks," a review article of Chaianan
Samudvanija, The Thai Young Turks, (Singapore: ISEAS, 1982) in Tonan
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Ajia Kenkyu, XXI, (June 1983)
Contributor to Thailand section on "Thai politics, history, and literature," nineteen
entries in Ainslee Embree, ed., Encyclopedia of Asian History, (New
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985)
"The Pacific Era Begins," Look Japan, (October 10, 1985)
"Asian Americans in College Admissions," paper presented at the New York
Association of College Admissions Counselors Conference, Plattsburg,
NY, June 2, 1986
“Weighing the Balance: Southeast Asian Studies in the US” SSRC publication,
January 2000
“Tribute to George McTurnan Kahin,” Indonesia, April 2000
“Towards a more inclusive national narrative: Thai history and the Chinese, Isan
and the nation state” in Luem khotngao Kaw Phao Phaenadin, Kanjanee
Laongsi and Thanet Apornsuwan, eds., (Bangkok: Matichon Press, 2001)
pp. 64-110.
“Southeast Asian Studies in the United States,” in the conference program of the
First Biennial Conference of Indian Association for Asian and Africa
studies, Calcutta, March 1-3, 2002.
“Move over Madonna: Luang Wichit Wathakan’s Huang Rak Haew Luk,” in
James Siegel and Audrey Kahin, ed., Southeast Asia Across Three
Generations (Ithaca: SEAP publications, 2003).
“Khru Liam’s Khwam Mai Phayabat (1915) and the Problematics of Thai
Modernity”, paper presented at the Ambiguous Allure of the West
Conference, Cornell University, November 5-7, 2004. A revised version
of this paper is published in Southeast Research Journal, Volume 19,
2009.
Keynote address: Prospects for Southeast Asian Studies, Annual Taiwan
Conference of Southeast Asian Studies, Jinan University, April 28, 2005,
in Asia Pacific Forum, 28 (June 2005), pp. 287-306
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“Khru Liam’s Nang Neramid: Siamese Fantasy, Rider Haggard’s She, and the
Divine Egyptian Nymph,” Southeast Asia Research Journal, Volume 15,
no. 1, 2007.
“Distinctions with a Difference: The Despotic Paternalism of Sarit Thanarat and
the Demagogic Authoritarianism of Thaksin Shinnawat,” Crossroads, 19:1
(2007), pp. 50-94.
“Making New Space in the Thai Literary Canon,” Journal of Southeast Asian
Studies, volume 40 (February 2009), pp. 87-110.
“Are We Them?: literary and textual representation of the Chinese in 20th century
Thailand,” Kyoto Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, forthcoming in the
December, 2014 issue.
Book reviews and articles: manuscript referee for the Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies, Singapore; University of Washington Press; Journal of Asian Studies;
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; SEAP publications, Cornell University;
Thammasat University Press; Thai Textbook Project Foundation; Oxford
University Press.
Claude E. Welch Jr. and Arthur K, Smith, Military Role and Rule (Duxbury Press,
1974) in Journal of Siam Society (July, 1974), pp. 327-330.
C. P. Fitzgerald, China and Southeast Asia since 1945, and G. Alexander, Invisible
China, in Problems of Communism, 26 (2), 75-79, 1977
R. Krannich, Mayors and Managers in Thailand–the struggle for political life in
Administrative setting, in Pacific Affairs, 53 (1): 165-167, 1980
John Girling, Thailand: Society and Politics, (Cornell Univ Press, 1981) in the
Journal of Asian Studies, 1982, pp 216-218.
Review article of Chaianan Samudavanija, The Rise and Fall of the Thai Young
Turks, (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1982), in Journal of Southeast Asian
Studies (Kyoto), June 1983, pp. 130-135
B.J. Terwiel, A History of Modern Thailand, (University of Queensland Press,
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1984) in The Journal of Asian and African Studies, XIX, 1984 pp. 290-292.
Bruce Missingham, Assembly of the Poor in Thailand: From Local Struggles to
National Protest Movement (Chiangmai: Silkworm Press, 2003), in Journal of
Asian Studies, August 2005, pp. 800-802.
Mike Montesano and Patrick Jory, eds. Thai South Malay North (Singapore: NUS
Press, 2008) in Journal of Siam Society, volume 97, 2009.
Review article of Susan Fulop Kepner, A Civilized Woman: M.L. Boonlua
Debyasuvarn and the thai Twentieth Century (Chiangmai: Silkwork Press, 2013) in
the New Mandala website, November 21, 2013
Panels, lectures, interviews: served as speaker and discussant at the AAS, Thai
Conferences, and at various universities on modern Thai politics and Southeast
Asian Studies
Most recently:
“From the Uniform to the Business Suit,” Cornell Adult University, July 21, 1989
“Aspects of Recent Thai Politics,” Thailand Seminar, June 10, 1991
“Suchinda Coup: a rehashing of the 1957 proclamations” Cornell University, May
1992
"Southeast Asian Americans," NY state teacher training, Ithaca, June 1993
“Window to SEAsia,” Onondaga Community College, October 22, 1993
"Opening remarks," "Thai cuisine and cooking," NY state teacher training, Ithaca,
July 1995
“Thai politics and the end of the Riggsian bureaucratic polity,” guest lectures in
Ben Anderson’s course on the Government and Politics of Southeast Asia, Fall
1995
“Power and Legitimacy in Thai politics” Thailand Seminar, March 27, 1996
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"Applying to U.S. universities," Thai government scholars conference,
Washington D.C., June 1995, Scranton, June 1996
"Southeast Asian Studies: new intersections and dead ends," Kahin Center,
Cornell, January 30, 1997
"Roundtable discussion of Thai politics," AAS, Chicago, March 14, 1997
"Thai Political Economy: a view from abroad," Liberal Arts Forum, Thammasat
University, Bangkok, September 10, 1997
"Thailand's soap suds economy: the economic crisis of July 1997," Kahin Center,
Cornell, February 19, 1998
"SEAP: past, present, and future," Kahin Center, Cornell, September 3, 1998
Panel Participant “ Establishing a Center for Khmer Studies,” Phnom Penh and
Siemreap, Cambodia, January 10-15, 1999
“Thai History, Local Narrative, Monuments and Civil Community in Khonkaen,”
Kahin Center, Cornell University, September 16, 1999.
“The nationalism of Phibun and Sarit: the nation state, fascism, atavism and
phatthana”, guest lecture in History 396, April 24, 2000
Commentator, US Elections. November 7, 2000. Voice of America and Thai TV
Channel 9.
Report on future strategies for the Center for Khmer Studies, Siemreap, January
17, 2001
“The January 6 Thai national elections: Miami (Dade) vice, civil society and the
new leadership,” Kahin Center, Cornell, February 15, 2001
Interview on Singapore radio about the new Thai government, February 2001
Panel chair, papers on Southeast Asia, NY Conference for Asian Studies, Cornell
University, October 26. 2001
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Opening remarks “(Receding) Memories of Southeast Asia as a field of study,”
Graduate Student Symposium on the Place of Memory in Southeast Asia, Cornell
University, March 30, 2002.
“Thai American Studies: promising directions and dead ends,” Kahin Center,
Cornell University, September 2002.
“Southeast Asian Studies and the future of Area Studies in the US,” Thammasat
University, January 6, 2003
Interview focused on the current political situation in Thailand, The Nation,
January 6, 2003
Interview by William Choong, The Straits Times, August 27, 2003. Elections in
Southeast Asia.
Panel: “The current political and economic situation in Thailand,” Central
Intelligence Agency, September 10, 2003
“The First Modern Thai Novels: Trash or Treasure?” Kahin Center, Cornell
University, April 22, 2004.
“Your education and the Alpha Phi Beta Fraternity,” speech to resident brothers,
University of the Philippines, January 12, 2005
“Forty years after and the search for meaning,” Alpha Phi Beta Chancery meeting,
Manila, January 12, 2005
“Philippine higher education and the development of Thailand,” San Francisco Del
Monte Rotary Club meeting, Club Filipino, Greenhills, Manila, January 13, 2004
“Southeast Asian Studies in the United States,” address to participants of the
Mekhong Project, Nongkhai, Thailand, March 11, 2005
“Sarit and Thaksin,” Fa Diaw Kan, 3:2 (April-June, 2005), pp.48-58. Also in
same volume is a review article on Kanmuang Rabob Phokhun Uppatham.
“Institutionalizing Southeast Asian Studies in the Academy,” Academia Sinica,
Taiwan, April 25, 2005
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Keynote lecture in Thai “Reminiscing about Despotic Paternalism,”
Chulalongkorn University, May 11, 2005
“The Genesis and Critique of the Politics of Despotic Paternalism,” Chulalongkorn
UIniversity radio interview, May 16, 2005
“Icons of Success: the filthy rich, the incredibly gorgeous, and the pathetically
comical—a study of contemporary Thai autobiographies,” Kahin Center, Cornell
University, September 1, 2005.
Interview: Political crisis and the April 2, 2006 elections in Thailand, Francisca
Enriques, Publico newspaper, Portugal. March 28, 2006
“Contours of Southeast Asian studies and the conceptualization of its region-ness,”
and “Contemporary Thai politics,” lecture for Luce Foundation Scholars, Prospect
House, Princeton University, August 23, 2006
“Through (Siamese) Racing Goggles: modernity, the West, and Ambiguous
Siamese Alterities, Kahin Center, Cornell University, September 7, 2006
“The September 19, 2006 coup d’etat in Thailand” – interviews on Bloomberg TV;
“air talk” on KPCC radio in Los Angeles; CBS news; WWRL radio in New York;
KQED radio in San Francisco; interviewed by the NY office of the Japan External
Trade Organization.
“Setting the Thai coup in the context of Thai political culture”, Uris Hall, Cornell
University, September 22, 2006.
“Is the Thai coup a good coup?” Alice Cook House, Cornell University, October
17, 2006.
“Paul Handley’s book and lese majeste in Thailand,” interview by Kim Martineau,
the Hartford Current newspaper, October 18, 2006
“The Development and Evolution of Thai Studies in the United States,”
Conference on Thailand-U.S. Relations, organized by the Royal Thai Embassy,
Washington, D.C. May 9-10, 2007
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“Nang Neramid: Siam’s Second Authentic Thai Novel—a soft-porn Egyptian
adventure,” Kahin Center, September 6, 2007
“Background to the crisis in Burma,” Convener’s opening remarks at the
Roundtable discussion on the Buddhist Monks protest in Burma, Kahin Center,
October 4, 2007
Interview on the New Mandala website, November, 2007
“Autobiographies of the Rich, the Gorgeous, and the Comical: iconic achievers in
contemporary Thai society,” Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, November 30, 2007
“Bucking the Thai Literary Canon: the significance of pre-1929 translated,
original, and imitation novels,” Keynote address, Council of Thai Studies
Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, December 1, 2007.
“Three very early Thai novels: vernacularization, authenticity, hybridity, mimesis,
and bi-culturalism,” pre conference lecture (10th
International Thai Studies
Conference) at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, January 7, 2008
Interview by David Fullbrook, Review Asia, “The new Samak government,”
February 18, 2008
“The culture of decisive (det khat) crisis management and its relationship to state
violence in Thai politics,” panel on Scandalous Hypotheses, the Association for
Asian Studies conference, Atlanta, April 6, 2008
“Thailand: highlights of Thai political evolution and thoughts about the future,”
Executive Seminar on Thailand, The Meridian International Center, Washington,