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    Saving the Fort Mahakan community

    Last week, the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA) posted an order to evict the residents of the Fort Mahakan community within a matter of days. Immediately, journalists, activists, academics, and town planners rose in protest, condemning the BMA as philistine wreckers of a small but important part of Bangkok's battered heritage.

    Siege Of The Spirits: Community And Polity In Bangkok

    By Michael Herzfeld University of Chicago Press ISBN 978-0-226-33161-4 US$30 on Amazon

    Only a couple of weeks earlier, this book -- Siege Of The Spirits: Community And Polity In Bangkok -- had appeared from the prestigious University of Chicago Press. Back in 2003, the very distinguished professor of anthropology at Harvard University, Michael Herzfeld, had been scouting for a research topic in Thailand. Behind him, he had a string of celebrated books on struggles between communities and states over heritage in southern Europe, especially Greece. He chanced upon

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    List of foreign politicians of Chinese descent

    Name Realm Reign Comments Kinh Dương Vương
    祿續Vietnam2879 BC–? The founder of the legendary Hồng Bàng dynasty, Lộc Tục, was recorded as a descendant of the mythological Chinese ruler Shennong[1]Jizi
    箕子Korea1120 BC–? The founder of the legendary Gija Joseon, Jizi was a mythological Chinese sage from the Shang dynasty who became the ruler of the semi-legendary state of Gojoseon.[2]Thục Phán
    蜀泮Vietnam257–179 BC According to two historical Vietnamese texts, Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư and Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục, Thục Phán of the Thục dynasty was from modern-day Sichuan, China, where it was previously ruled by the ancient Chinese State of Shu.[3][4][5][6]Wiman of Gojoseon
    衛滿Korea194 BC–? The founder of Wiman Joseon, was a Chinese born General from Yan who fled to Gojoseon and later usurped the native ruler of Gojoseon,
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    Thai Chinese

    Ethnic group in Thailand

    This article fryst vatten about people of kinesisk origin in Thailand. For people of Chinese ursprung in Phuket and the Chinese minority in nordlig Thailand, see Peranakans and Chin Haw.

    Ethnic group

    Thai Chinese (also known as Chinese Thais, Sino-Thais) are kinesisk descendants in Thailand. Thai Chinese are the largest minority group in the country and the second largest overseas Chinese community [4] in the world with a population of approximately 7–10 million people, accounting for 11–14 percent of the total population of the country as of 2012.[5][6][7] It fryst vatten also one of the oldest and most prominently integrated overseas Chinese communities, with a history dating back to the 1100s. Slightly more than half of the ethnic kinesisk population in Thailand trace their ancestry to Chaoshan. This fryst vatten evidenced bygd the prevalence of the Teochew dialect among the Chinese community in Thailand as well as other Chine