American Imperialism, Thai Scholarship and Buddhist Cosmology with Matthew Phillips
The Nordic Asia Podcast - A podcast by NIAS and its academic partners
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How did American imperialism affect Thai scholarship? And what does Buddhist cosmology got to do with the Thai royal tours to Burma and the United States in the 1960s? In this fascinating episode, Matthew Phillips talks to Petra Desatova about moving beyond binary readings of Thai history, avoiding existing preconceptions and using images to get a more holistic understanding of the past.
