Thailand's elaborate coronation ceremonies for King Maha Vajiralongkorn thi...
BANGKOK - Thailand’s elaborate coronation ceremonies for King Maha Vajiralongkorn this weekend are steeped in history and a showcase for the kingdom’s rich Buddhist culture for the world.
That film is banned in Thailand because its depiction of King Mongkut - the current king’s great-great grandfather - is deemed disrespectful and false. It was during this time that he studied foreign languages like English and Latin, as well as mathematics and Western astronomy through conversations with Christian missionaries and through books.
Leonowens’ contemporary account of her experience, “The English Governess at the Siamese Court”, became the basis nearly a century later for the fictionalised novel “Anna and the King of Siam” by Margaret Landon that inspired both a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical on Broadway and the Hollywood film.Leonowens’ book - unlike its fictionalised offspring - is not banned in Thailand and in fact was re-translated into Thai this year.
“Here is a Victorian English lady with strong views against slavery and prostration and she obviously clashed with the Thai elite who had a very different world view and conduct about people’s rights at the time,” he said. “As early as the reign of Rama III, many Siamese nobles were already able to read European books,” she said.
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