CONTENTS

• Akha Souvenir Sellers in Thailand’s Urban Tourist Areaas: Social, Economic, and Political Structures
  (Author : Alexander Trupp)
• Thai 16mm Cinema: The Rise of a Popular Cinematic Culture in Thailand from 1945 to 1970
  (Author : Aliosha Herrera)
• The Map that Christmas Carols Made: A Case of Musical Appropriation and Application in a Karen Village
  (Author : Benjamin Fairfield)
• “Snakes Without Poison?” : (Re)Negotiating Hybrid Masculinities in Thailand
  (Author : Daniel Whitehouse)
• Education Environments of Children with Disabilities in Greater Bangkok: Barriers and Facilitators in a Transiting Urban Area Selected Findings from a Cross-Cultural Perspective on Society and Culture
  (Author : Michelle Proyer)
• The Chinese Vegetarian Festival in Bangkok’s Chinatown: A Space for Presenting Cultural Identity of Chineseness in Contemporary Thai Soceity
  (Author : Narut Kupthanaroj)
• Dharma on the Rise: Lay Buddhist Associations and the Traffic in Meditation in Contemporary Thailand
  (Author : Prakirati Satasut)
• Japan’s Cultural Diplomacy: Influence on Thai Society
  (Author : Saikaew Thipakorn)
• The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara in Thai-Malay Peninsula and Western Indonesia: The Early Development of Buddhist Imagery in Insular Southeast Asia
  (Author : Sofia Sundstrom)
• Phra Upakhut Midnight Almsgiving Ritual: The Reproduction of a Northern Thai Ritual in Central Thailand
  (Author : Watcharaporn Distapan)

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

Peer Review Committee

• Dusita Tinmala
• Pornprapit Phoasavadi
• Siraporn Nathalang
• Suradech Chotiudompant
• Peter Skilling
• Rittirong Jiwaganon
• Sukanya Patrachai
• Surangsri Tonsiengsom

Editorial Board

• Suchitra Chongstitvatana, Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Editor-in-Chief
• Peter Skilling, Ecole fracaise d’Extreme-Orient, Bangkok
• Justin McDaniel, Assoc Prof, University of Pennsylvania

Editor

• Suchitra Chongstitvatana