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December 2011
CSEAS Friday Forum: The Monks and the Hmong: The Special Relationship between the Chao Fa and the Tham Krabok Buddhist Temple in Saraburi Province, Thailand
By Ian Baird, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UW-Madison The Tham Krabok temple in Saraburi Province, central Thailand is the home of an unusual Buddhist order, one that was founded by a female, Mian Parnchand,…
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How did the Hmong People Get Involved in the Secret War of Laos (1961-1975)?
By Dr. Yang Dao, Retired Faculty, University of Minnesota After the Geneva Conference in 1954, Laos became an independent country from French Indochina. However, in 1959-1960, a Lao civil war, between royalists, neutralists and communists,…
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CSEAS Friday Forum: Presenting a Sensitive History: Different Representations of Hmong Involvement in the Communist Party of Thailand
By Ian Baird, Assistant Professor of Geography, UW-Madison Between the late 1960s and the 1980s, large numbers of Hmong joined the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and fought against the Royal Thai Army. Despite the importance…
Find out more »October 2015
CSEAS Friday Forum: Back to Zomia: Hmong-French Relations during the Colonial Era
By Mai Na Lee, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of Minnesota This talk examines how French appointment of a paramount leader led to internal competitions between Hmong leaders, complicating French power at…
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