The Thai basic course consists of 128 lessons in 15 volumes. The basic course is designed to train native English language speakers to Level 3 proficiency in comprehension and speaking and Level 3 proficiency in reading and writing Thai. The texts are intended for classroom use in the Defense Language Institute's intensive programs, using accompanying audio tapes.

Describes the school life, family life, the traditions and holidays, entertainment and recreation, and the daily routines of the Thai and Thai teenagers living in Thailand.

In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both aspirations to be cosmopolitan and to improve one's class standing, along with limitations in achieving such aims. Through the analysis of three different groups of workers in Singapore, Ye shows that cosmopolitanism is an exclusive and aspirational construct created through global and national development strategies, transnational migration and individual senses of identity. This dialectic relationship between class and cosmopolitanism is never free from power and is constituted through material and symbolic conditions, struggles and violence. Class is also constituted through 'the self' and lies at the very heart of different constructions of personhood as they intersect with gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality.

Jarred by not being considered Chinese by some people of Chinese ancestry living in Thailand despite her mainland China roots, Bao (anthropology, U. of Nevada, Las Vegas) studies what it means to be Chinese outside of China. She examines diasporic space, gendered language, changes in sex relations, and hybrid identity experienced by contemporary

Includes entries for maps and atlases.