CONTENTS

• Tourism, Nature, Healing, and Dissent: The Plurality of International Meditators in Thailand
  (Author : Brooke Schedneck)
• Prolongation Ritual : Rite of Passage in Lanna Society
  (Author : Cherdchart Hirunro)
• The Role of Mindfulness Meditation and Aesthetic Virtue in the Transition from the Emptiness of Self to Social Engagement: Buddhadasa’s Appropriation of D.T. Suzuki’s Theory of Buddhist Enlightement
  (Author : Geoff Ashton)
• Transmitting Traditional Lanna Music in the Modern-Day City of Chiang Mai
  (Author : Joel Akins)
• Rediffusion: History of Broadcasting and Chinese Society in Thailand, 1950s – 1970s
  (Author : Kornphanat Tungkeunkunt)
• Woman Enter The ‘Public Sphere’: Thailand’s Post-Revolutionary Period 1932 – 1956
  (Author : Natanaree Posrithong)
• The Role of Chinese Tea Shops in Promoting Chinese Tea Culture in Bangkok
  (Author : Sakaorat Harnkarnchanasuwat)
• Compromised Margins: Rethinking Power, State and Village Relations in the Borderlands of Thailand and Lao PDR
  (Author: Soimart Rungmanee)
• Endangered Thai Music Culture: The Current Situation of the khrueang sai pi chawa Ensemble
  (Author : Supeena Insee Adler)
• Footloose Traders and the Making of a ‘Space of Exception’: Case Study of a Community of Chanthaburi Gem Traders in the Northern-most Border Town of Thailand
  (Author : Yuthpong Chantrawarin)
• Thailand’s Unique Case of Inter-Gender Role Negotiations: Inter-Gender Sibling Rivalry and “Castration” in Thai Novels Depicting Gender Status Renegotiations in Chineses-Thai Families
  (Author : Ami Zarchi)

Honorary Editors

• Yukio Ikemoto, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
• Hong-koo Kim, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Pusan
• William J. Klausner, Institute of Security and International Studies, Bangkok
• Pranee Kullavanich, Sirindhorn Thai Center, Bangkok
• Elizabeth Moore, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Peer Review Committee

• Prof Dr Supang Chantavanich
• Asst Prof Dr Carina Chotirawe
• Asst Prof Dr Pornprapit Phoasavadi
• Assoc Prof Dr Suwanna Satha-anand
• Asst Prof Dr Duang-Kamol Chartprasert
• Assoc Prof Dr Bussakorn Binson
• Sukanya Sujachaya
• Adisorn Semyam
• Premjai Vangsiriphisal

Editorial Board

• Peter Skilling, Ecole fracaise d’Extreme-Orient, Bangkok
• Suchitra Chongstitvatana, Director, Institute of Thai Studies
• Justin McDaniel, Assoc Prof, University of Pennsylvania
• Arthit Thongtak, Deputy Director, Institute of Thai Studies
• Ritirong Jiwakanon, Deputy Director, Institute of Thai Studies
• Pram Sounsamut, Deputy Director, Institute of Thai Studies

Editor

• Suchitra Chongstitvatana

Assistant Editor

• Frederick B. Goss