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Reynolds on Handley’s The King Never Smiles

March 17th, 2008 by Craig Reynolds, Guest Contributor · 79 Comments

Several colleagues have encouraged me to blog the comments I made during the Handley panel at the International Conference on Thai Studies this past January 2008. One of three panels on the monarchy organised by Thongchai Winichakul, the panel, chaired by Michael Herzfeld, was called Critical Comments on Paul Handley’s The King Never Smiles (Yale [...]

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