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Ghosts of the New City

Ghosts of the New City

Johnson, Andrew Alan

Hardcover

Series: Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory, Book 8

General SociologySoutheast Asian HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0824839390
ISBN13: 9780824839390
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: Jun 26 2014
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 remake the city. For many Chiang Mai residents, new developments harbor the seeds of the crash, which manifest themselves in anxious stories of ghosts and criminals who conceal themselves behind the city's progressive veneer.

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