- Thongchai Winichakul
Thongchai Winichakul is a Professor of Southeast Asian History at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison . He has had a major impact on the history of Thai nationalism. [cite journal |title=Problems in Contemporary Thai Nationalist Historiography |author=Patrick Jory |date=March 2003 |journal=Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia |volume= |issue=3 |pages= |url=http://kyotoreview.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/issue/issue2/article_251.html] He is of Sino-Thai descent. [ [http://www.public-conversations.org.za/_pdfs/anderson_09.pdf Radicalism after Communism in Thailand and Indonesia] ] [ [http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/doc/HissocJournal/Kevin%20Khoo%20Teng%20Yang%20-%20Authenticity%20of%20SEA%20History.pdf DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: “WE TALK ABOUT SEA HISTORY BEING WRITTEN FROM A SEA PERSPECTIVE. HOWEVER, MOST SEASIAN HISTORIANS ARE TRAINED BY WESTERN SCHOLARS USING WESTERN THEORIES AND INTELLECTUAL TOOLS. THEREFORE, THEIR SCHOLARSHIP IS NO MORE ‘INDIGENOUS’ THAN THAT WRITTEN BY ANG MOH.”] ] His best-known academic work is his book, "Siam Mapped", which critiqued existing theories of Thai historiography. In its Japanese translation, the book won the Grand Prize of the 16th Asian Pacific Awards from the Asian Affairs Research Council. [cite web |url=http://seasia.wisc.edu/News/Thongchai%20Book.htm |title=Professor Winichakul Wins Book Award |publisher=Center for Southeast Asian Studies |date=2004-09-28 |accessdate=2008-04-19] Winichakul was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. [cite news |title=FOUR UW-MADISON PROFESSORS HONORED |author= |publisher="Wisconsin State Journal" (Madison, WI) |page=B3 |date=2003-05-09 |url= |accessdate=2008-04-19]Selected Works
#"Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation". Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
#"Writing at the Interstices: Southeast Asian Historians and Post-National Histories in Southeast Asia", leading article in "New Terrains in Southeast Asian History", ed. Abu Talib Ahmad and Tan Liok Ee, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002: 3-29.
#"Remembering/ Silencing the Traumatic Past: the Ambivalent Memories of the October 1976 Massacre in Bangkok" in "Cultural Crisis and Social Memory: Modernity and Identity in Thailand and Laos", ed. Charles F Keyes and Shigeharu Tanabe, London and New York: Routledge/Curzon, 2002: 243-283.
#"The Quest for 'Siwilai': A geographical discourse of Civilizational Thinking in the Late 19th and early 20th Century Siam", Journal of Asian Studies 59, 3 (Aug 2000): 528-549.
#"The Others Within: Travel and Ethno-spatial Differentiation of Siamese Subjects, 1885-1910," lead article in "Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States", ed. Andrew Turton, London: Curzon Press, 2000: 38-62.References
External links
* [http://seasia.wisc.edu/People/Thongchai%20Winichakul.htm Thongchai Winichakul] at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
* [http://www.today.wisc.edu/event.php?id=1189443649 Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Thongchai Winichakul]
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