Comments on: Radio interview with Paul Handley http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/21/radio-interview-with-paul-handley/ New perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:28:26 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: New Mandala » Siam Rumoured: the Thongchai lecture in London http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/21/radio-interview-with-paul-handley/comment-page-1/#comment-12859 New Mandala » Siam Rumoured: the Thongchai lecture in London Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:39:59 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/21/radio-interview-with-paul-handley/#comment-12859 [...] In Thongchai’s historical overview, Series 3 describes the power relations among what he rather playfully called “M/P3”. This is the series that focuses on the interactions between “Politicians (elected)/Money; People/Mass; Palace/Monarchists, Monarchy”. He sees this series, which begins in 1973, as heralding “the revival of the monarchy”. Speaking of the bloody events of October 1976, Thongchai argued that nobody mentions that “the King’s intervention is part of the massacre”. This is all part of Series 3. In this scheme, “Royalists now talk democracy” and have, very cunningly, created an “upper floor of politics”. This is a “second floor [that] provides the moral authority”. On this point, and as a digression, Thongchai briefly noted that Paul Handley’s widely debated book, The King Never Smiles, is, in his view, “not academic but worth listening to”. [...]

]]> By: New Mandala » Banned but scanned http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/21/radio-interview-with-paul-handley/comment-page-1/#comment-8857 New Mandala » Banned but scanned Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:34:45 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/21/radio-interview-with-paul-handley/#comment-8857 [...] Paul Handley’s political biography of King Bhumiphol, The King Never Smiles,  is banned in Thailand. But I have noticed that that it has been scanned in full and is available, chapter by chapter, on a Thai website. [...] [...] Paul Handley’s political biography of King Bhumiphol, The King Never Smiles,  is banned in Thailand. But I have noticed that that it has been scanned in full and is available, chapter by chapter, on a Thai website. [...]

]]> By: BF http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/21/radio-interview-with-paul-handley/comment-page-1/#comment-8681 BF Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:46:21 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/21/radio-interview-with-paul-handley/#comment-8681 Sorry I didn't notice that you already put the link in the blog. My apology! Sorry I didn’t notice that you already put the link in the blog. My apology!

]]> By: BF http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/21/radio-interview-with-paul-handley/comment-page-1/#comment-8634 BF Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:45:05 +0000 http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2006/11/21/radio-interview-with-paul-handley/#comment-8634 You can listen to the tape of that interview online. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2006/1790433.htm ...... I got it from this discussion thread http://www.prachatai.com/05web/th/board/showboard.php?QID=40055&TID=5 You can listen to the tape of that interview online.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2006/1790433.htm

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I got it from this discussion thread

http://www.prachatai.com/05web/th/board/showboard.php?QID=40055&TID=5

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