书籍介绍
This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.
Thongchai Winichakul is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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90年代欧盟的兴起和苏联的解体，让对民族国家的讨论再次成为政治地理学的显学。本作与这一思潮同时出现，"a map created a nation" ，可谓Imagined Community的地图版。与此同时，Winichakul对话了更源远流长的本土问题：起源于西方的概念和技术（比如边界）如何定义了非西方国家的国家建设的议程和叙事；学习西方反抗殖民者的本土精英视角，如何让政治中心对边缘的镇压和统治从视野中隐去。后一点跟Duara的书共享了很多相通的见解，都是一剂对非批判性的“反东方主义”的后现代药方。问题是，在各种源流的“反东方主义”和“反-反东方主义”(比如Clark, 2020)一顿混战的二十年后，更有前景的进路在何方？
The problem might be, the conflict between anti-colonial/decolonial movement and the sub-imperialism ever conducted by the small nations
地图作为建构想象共同体的媒介
读过的第一本关于泰国研究的外文著作，当时似懂非懂，现在也不敢说完全理解其中的涵义，但毋庸置疑是泰国研究必读书目之一
英文流畅，读起来很顺，主题选得也好！~geobody of a nation。
把越南画成张开口蹲着想一口吞下西边领地的形象。
intro, chapter 3, 7
nationalism是十九世纪末才开始传染的精神virus，汤因比说的。
A brilliant book--it is probably as significant as The Great Divergence or Imagined Community, but sadly stuck in "area studies." Wish more people will read it.