Remembering with Respect: History, Social Memory and the Cross-Border Journeys of a Charismatic Lue Monk

摘要: For over three decades, people's mobility in the borderlands of upper Mekong region has been reactivated, but simultaneously regulated, by changing state policy. Since 1990s greater regional cooperation between China and mainland southeast Asian countries trade development resulted massive accelerated flows culture, commodities, capital information across borders. This article traces cross-border movements one charismatic Buddhist monk, Phra Khru Weruwanpithak (1929–2005), which took place two decades from early 1980s to beginning twenty-first century. I argue that this monk's journeys played a significant role Theravada revivalism localities he visited, both his hometown northern Thailand, other Lue communities eastern Shan Burma Sipsong Panna southwest China. The practical, religious architectural activities undertaken border-crossing monk not only restored site...