Beyond "Official Nationalism": Rethinking Nationalism and Autocracy in Vajiravudh's Siam

For decades, Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities has defined the consensus on nationalism and Siamese history. My new article in the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia challenges this paradigm by re-evaluating early 20th-century Siamese modernization and Sinophobia beyond standard Andersonian models and widespread misconceptions about the nation-state model. https://kyotoreview.org/issue-43/nationalism-and-autocracy-in-vajiravudhs-siam/