Here (mccargo.pdf) is Duncan McCargo’s review of The King Never Smiles (from the New Left Review).
UPDATE: And here is another review (buruma.pdf), from the New York Review of Books, by Ian Buruma. (Apologies for some problems with the fonts and format.)
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1 Srithanonchai // Feb 13, 2007 at 3:48 pm
In his review, McCargo speaks of the “ever more vocal cult of Bhumipol.” In her article on the Sonthi/PAD protests, Suphalack wrote, “The royalists have subjected Thailand to the power of a personality cult no less, and perhaps even more, than North Korea has done with its citizens” (Fa Diewgun, April-June 2006, p. 175; my translation).
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