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The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by Paul M. Handley

The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej Paul M. Handley ebook
Publisher: Yale University Press
Page: 512
ISBN: 0300106823, 9780300106824
Format: pdf

The present King of Thailand has an extraordinary place in Thai history and in the affections of his people. The essay forms Part III of Andrew's multipart book review of King Bhumibol Adulyadej A Life's Work, to which I am a contributor. Paul M Handley's unauthorised biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, The King Never Smiles, is unique in that it does not blindly accept the conventional, uncritical view of Bhumibol's reign. It's high It became clear that to understand what is happening to Thailand now, at the end of Bhumibol's reign, you need to know how his reign began, and the implications of what happened. BANGKOK – THAILAND'S banning of a rare 'warts and all' biography of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej only stokes interest in the book and risks an eventual explosion of pent-up political tension, an academic said. 'Banning books is usually something we associate with fascist and repressive regimes,' Australian anthropologist Annette Hamilton told a seminar on 'The King Never Smiles' at an international Thai studies conference in Bangkok on Thursday. Business · Sci-Tech · Globalization · Environment · Culture · Sports · TOP STORIES / World / Asia. We need to reclaim our history. But King Bhumibol Adulyadej is 84 years old and has been on the throne since the start of the Cold War. Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej arrives back at the Siriraj Hospital, after a ceremony at the When the current king ascended the throne in 1946, the monarchy was in shambles, as explained by Paul M. Handley in his royal biography "The King Never Smiles." In the years that followed, however, the king and other members of the royal family won back control. Joe Gordon, who was born Thai but holds American citizenship, was also jailed for translating and posting online part of the banned book about the life of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, "The King Never Smiles" by Paul Handley. The secret has been lurking like an . Handley portrays the King as a firm Though The King Never Smiles is, of course, banned in Thailand due to the law against lese majeste, it is a necessary book, because no institution should be immune from criticism.