Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai
(Part of the Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory Series)
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Chiang Mai (literally, "new city") suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824839714
ISBN13:9780824839710
Release Date:July 2014
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:206 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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