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An American in Thailand paints a vivid picture of a fascinating society in this account of his year as a Fulbright professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Garrett shows what the Fulbright program is really like, including such details as dealing with the web of bureaucratic eccentrics, finding housing, and coping with live-in snakes. M. Carlota Baca, Director of Academic Liaison at the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, describes these diary entries as a graceful blend of personal reminiscence, travel literature, rumination on past U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia, and rather deft portraiture of human types.
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Thailand--Description and travel, Garrett, Stephen A.,--1939- --Journeys--Thailand, College teachers--United States--Biography, College teachers--Thailand--Biography.
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1986
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DS566.2.G37 1986eb
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959.3/044
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Thailand--Description and travel, Garrett, Stephen A.,--1939- --Journeys--Thailand, College teachers--United States--Biography, College teachers--Thailand--Biography.
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Bangkok Journal
A Fulbright Year in Thailand
Stephen A. Garrett
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Copyright 1986 by Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Edited by Curtis L. Clark
Designed by Loretta Vincent
Production supervised by Kathleen Giencke
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Garrett, Stephen A., 1939 Bangkok journal. 1. ThailandDescription and travel1976 2. Garrett, Stephen A., 1939 JourneysThailand. 3. College teachersUnited StatesBiography. 4. College teachersThailandBiography. I. Title. DS566.2.G37 1986 959.3'044 8519621 ISBN 0-8093-1275-1
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To Marta, Crister, Karolina, and Eric the perfect family for a Gypsy Scholar
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Contents
Introduction
1. Beginnings
3
2. Settling In
19
3. Chulalongkorn University
31
4. The Charms of Pattaya
43
5. The City of Bangkok
55
6. Law and Order in Thailand
67
7. Various Matters Personal
81
8. Freedom for the Thammasat 18
91
9. Social Life
105
10. Staying Healthy
113
11. Classroom Contacts
123
12. Progress and Poverty
135
13. Holiday Season in Bangkok
149
14. Vietnam Invades Cambodia
163
15. A Decision to Leave
177
16. The Impact of War
191
17. Politics in Asia
203
18. Getting on the Lecture Circuit
217
19. Kings and Kamoys
227
20. Pleasures of Phuket, Tales of Traffic
241
21. Winding Down
257
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Introduction
This book is an account of a year spent in Bangkok, Thailand, by an American family participating in the Fulbright program of international educational exchange.
The Fulbright program has been one of the major blessings accorded to the academic profession in the period since 1946. In part, this program (named after its sponsor, the former senator from Arkansas) has been designed to support young Americans who wish to study overseas following the completion of their undergraduate educations. The exchange also has been devoted to the notion that there is something valuable in having students from a variety of foreign countries come to the United States for further education. Last and far from least, the Fulbright endeavor has involved an exchange of teachers and researchers, some of whom go from this country to institutions abroad, while their counterparts from other countries spend a year at a university or other center of learning in the United States.
Which of these emphases in the Fulbright program has produced the greatest benefit in terms of international understanding is a point that has been much debated. In any event, it is hard to quibble with the often repeated observation that the Fulbright exercise has resulted in "the greatest spur to the international movement of scholars and students that has ever existed." An official report from the Board of Foreign Scholarships, which maintains overall supervision of the Fulbright program, suggests the exchange's scope and reach. According to the report, the United States as of 1980 had agreements with some 125 countries and territories governing educational exchange. Approximately 143,000 students, teachers (mainly university lecturers), and researchers had enjoyed a "Fulbright experience." Funding for these activities originally was provided almost entirely by the United States government, but in recent years it increasingly has become a joint enterprise of the United States and host countries (in 1980 something over
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