Sanjib Baruah. In the Name of the Nation

the bad blood in the past.This formula for cooperation serves their mutual interest in dominating their true common opponents, the masses of the working class and supporters of left-wing socialist politics.(p.154) Wasana ends the book with more recent observations of the relationship between the People's Republic of China and Thailand.Some readers may be surprised to learn that the first country that Deng Xiaoping visited after he became China's paramount leader in 1978 was Thailand, where he was granted a royal audience with King Bhumibol.And in 2009 the Chinese government presented Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn the award of "Best Friend of the Chinese People," on her 29th visit to China.She was the only person from Southeast Asia to receive such an award (p.159).It seems that the triangular relationship between the ethnic Chinese, the monarchy, and China is as strong now as it has ever been.Some may see The Crown and the Capitalists as a conservative attempt to reestablish the monarchy at the center of discourses of Thai nationalism.Perhaps even more challenging is the

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