The conscience of Somchai

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  • Published 20150804
  • ISBN: 978-1-922182-90-6
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

TAKE A BANGKOKIAN. Let’s called him Somchai. He’s in his mid-thirties and is of (typical) Thai–Chinese ethnicity.

Somchai grew up in a well-to-do middle-class family. He has kind and loving parents who dote on him. He received a good education at one of the better Bangkok prep schools and then at a top local university.

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Voranai Vanijaka

Voranai Vanijaka is the editor-in-chief of GQ Magazine Thailand. He teaches political communication and intercultural communication at Thammasat University. From 2008 to May 2014,...

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