Siamese Melting Pot : Ethnic Minorities in the Making of Bangkok.
Ethnic minorities historically comprised a solid majority of Bangkok's population. They played a dominant role in the city's exuberant economic and social development. In the shadow of Siam's prideful, flamboyant Thai ruling class, the city's diverse minorities flourished quietly...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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SG :
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute,
2017.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9789814762847 9814762849 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Ethnic minorities historically comprised a solid majority of Bangkok's population. They played a dominant role in the city's exuberant economic and social development. In the shadow of Siam's prideful, flamboyant Thai ruling class, the city's diverse minorities flourished quietly. The Thai-Portuguese; the Mon; the Lao; the Cham, Persian, Indian, Malay, and Indonesian Muslims; and the Taechiu, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainanese, and Cantonese Chinese speech groups were particularly important. Others, such as the Khmer, Vietnamese, Thai Yuan, Sikhs, and Westerners, were smaller in numbers but no less sig. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (309 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |