Bones Around My Neck
Subtitle: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781501704635
Subjects: Princes; Thailand, biography; Diplomats, biography; Thailand, history
Description: "Prince Prisdang Chumsai served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam's political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason. In Bones around My Neck, Tamara Loos pursues the truth behind these rumors, which chased Prisdang out of Siam. Her book recounts the personal and political adventures of an unwitting provocateur who caused a commotion in every country he inhabited."--Provided by publisher.