Silkworm Books: 32 books
Liberating Insight
Introduction to Buddhist Psychology and Insight Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2004
This book introduces the reader to the psychology of Theravada Buddhism, the cradle of all later Buddhist schools and traditions. In simple and clear language Frits Koster describes the fundamental teachings of Buddhism, including the Four Noble Truths, karma and rebirth. He also introduces various...
by Gwyneth Chaturachinda, Sunanda Krishnamurty, Pauline W. Tabtiang
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
This basic dictionary of South and Southeast Asian art offers clear and concise explanations of hundreds of useful terms. With over 1,300 entries and 112 line illustrations, this volume makes a handy reference for anyone interested and engaged in South and Southeast Asia
Entries range from...
by Endo Gen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The entry of transnational retailers into emerging markets inevitably disrupts the existing retail and distribution structures. Thailand experienced such disruption to its traditional retailing system beginning in 1990 and continuing through the following two decades, to the extent that many observers...
A Record of Cambodia
The Land and Its People
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2007
Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Peter Harris
Only one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. This is the Chinese envoy, Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor in 1296–97 and wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People after...
by Steven Collins
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
This book is intended for modern students, inside or outside the classroom, as a work of reference rather than a ‘teach yourself’ textbook. It presents an introductory sketch of Pali using both European and South Asian grammatical categories. In English language works, Pali is standardly presented...
The Way Thais Lead
Face as Social Capital
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
This fascinating study explores how face functions as social capital for leaders in Thai society. It examines the anatomy of Thai face, ways to gain and lose face, patron-client dynamics, and the sources and paradigms of power. Ethnographic research gives voice to Thai leaders as they describe face...
Merchants of Madness
The Methamphetamine Explosion in the Golden Triangle
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
For decades, Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle—where the borders of Thailand, Laos, and Burma intersect—has been infamous for its opium and heroin production. But then, in the 1990s, the drug gangs in the Golden Triangle began to produce methamphetamine, a synthetic drug that does not depend...
Itinerary of an Ordinary Torturer
Interview with Duch, Former Khmer Rouge Commander of S-21
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Kaing Guek Eav was an ordinary young man growing up in Cambodia in the mid-twentieth century. He showed promise as a student, excelled in school, got a job as a math teacher, and experienced the political awakening common to young adulthood. But then he became a revolutionary, adopting the alias “Duch,”...
Human Trafficking in Thailand
Current Issues, Trends, and the Role of the Thai Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Few subjects elicit greater moral outrage than human trafficking. Media reports of dehumanizing practices such as slavery, abduction, child prostitution, and torture, along with shocking statistics, form the basis of public knowledge. Those who work closely with victims acknowledge the complexity...
A Brief History of Lanna
Northern Thailand from Past to Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Lan Na is the name of a conglomerate of Thai city-states that covered roughly the area of modern north Thailand between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Lan Na's influence reached far into the neighbouring regions, most under the leadership of the city-state of Chiang Mai. Beginning with the...
by Ellen Boccuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter‐narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding...
Just enough
A Journey into Thailand's Troubled South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Just Enough travels inside the conflict zone of Thailand’s southernmost provinces and gets under the surface of traditional Malay Muslim culture. Mira Lee Manickam, an adventurous American researcher, takes us with her as she settles into a small fishing village in troubled Pattani Province. Stepping...
by Marc Askew (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Intense political polarization, confrontation and violence have rocked Thailand recently, much of it a divisive legacy of the 2006 coup. Conflicts centre on the legitimacy of institutions and the uses and abuses of power alongside the parallel crisis of state legitimacy posed by the ongoing violence...
by Khemachat, Peter Ross (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Tubby, nine-year-old Boom lives in a village in northeastern Thailand on the Mekong River. As he rides to school in his trishaw every morning, the other boys yell at him and call him names. Boom has no friends. How do you make friends? he wonders.
Things begin to change when his mother takes...