Nirat Hariphunchai & Ocean Lament: Two classic Thai poems of love, loss, and landscape Nationalism Anne Hansen argues for the

Anne Hansen argues for the importance of Theravada Buddhist ethics for imagining and articulating what it means to be modern in early twentieth-century Cambodia

The women he interviews deserve not judgment but understanding of the complex circumstances and challenges they face

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Cover illustration: Cambodian children in front of a Buddhist temple used as a killing field during the Khmer Rouge regime

Nirat Hariphunchai & Ocean Lament: Two classic Thai poems of love, loss, and landscape Nationalism Anne Hansen argues for theTranslated and introduced by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit These two poems of love, loss, and landscape, translated into English for the first time, are among Thai literatures earliest and most celebrated works, dating from around 1500 CE. In Nirat hariphunchai, the author makes a pilgrimage to the great Buddhist reliquary at Lamphun to show his devotion to a lover and his religion. In Ocean Lament, the author flees from Ayutthaya for reasons