Rong wong savun biography sample

  • Narong Wongsawan was a Thai writer and journalist.
  • Rong Wongsawan (1932-2009) was a major Thai writer during the late 20th century.
  • The book is about Rong's observations in California in the 1960s and 1970s where he worked as a newspaper reporter and writer (and occasionally as a bartender).

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    The inaugural edition of Chiang Mai Photo Festival (CMPF) 2015 runs from 20 to 28 February. The event is hosted and organised by the photographic art division of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University (CMU).

    I am involved in this edition as the guest curator, presenting a show titled Documenting as Method: Photography in Southeast Asia at CMU Art Center.

    Satellite exhibitions and events open throughout the entire month of February.

    A key component of the festival is the series of public talks held at House of Photography. We have been able to do so without a luxurious ekonomisk plan, only because of the generosity of our speakers and the various institutions that made their presence possible. These institutions include Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore), Hong Kong Design Institute and Maranatha Christian University (Bandung).

    URL to the exhibition on CMPF website: http://www.cmphotofest.com/main_ex.html#do

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    Documenting as Method: Photography in Southeast As

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    Tony Waters

    Thailand's Sex Entertainment Industry: Alienated Labor and the Construction of Intimacy

    Social Sciences, 2022

    Promising research from Thailand already highlights women in the sexual entertainmentindustry as ... more Promising research from Thailand already highlights women in the sexual entertainmentindustry as being active participants in both intimate relationships and commercial transactionssimultaneously. Notably, they are neither victims nor alienated laborers, as some activist narratives
    assert. Women working in Thailand’s sex entertainment industry consistently adapt working cultures to modernity’s demand to reduce sex to a commercial transaction while often seeking emotional engagement. One result is that new forms of intimacy emerged, taking on new cultural
    meanings. The profoundly felt need to care for and take care of someone else [dulae (Thai: ดูแล)], seen as a form of “intimacy”, is, in fact, deeply rooted in the Thai social context. We reframe the li

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    National treasure Rong Wongsawan’s classic book now in English

    On 20th September 2022, Payap University’s Lifelong Learning programmes sponsors a “book launch” of the English translation of Thai author Rong Wongsavun’s book The Man from Bangkok: San Francisco’s culture in the 60s.  The book is about Rong’s observations in California in the 1960s and 1970s where he worked as a newspaper reporter and writer (and occasionally as a bartender). The book was published in Thai and addresses a Thai audience.  In doing this Rong answers the question his Thai readers pose, “Why do the Americans do such strange things?  Why are the relations between children and their parents so contentious?  Why are Americans so prudish, while also being obsessed with a porn star like Linda Lovelace?  Why are Americans so lonely?  What is so grandly important about their grass lawns? What do they write on bathroom walls?”  And finally “Why is there such a focus on money, money, money?”

    In shaping his travel