Name: 亚洲铁路纪行 3202020
Uploaded: 2021-11-07T01:37:45.000Z
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i'm in southeast asia with my 1913 bradshaw's  handbook published at the height of european  

imperialism my 100 year old guy book  will leave me on a railway adventure  

through archipelagos and peninsulas dotted  with hills forests and paddy fields i'll tour  

towering mega cities and magnificent mosques i'll  encounter golden buddhas and jewelled temples  

and experience some of the world's most  spectacular and notorious railways as i travel  

through the diverse nations of this vast region  i'll learn how they asserted their independence  

against the british french and dutch empires to  become the economic tigers and dragons of today

i am in the kingdom of thailand formerly siam  for which 1913 the date of my guidebook was  

a moment of political drama a  nominally independent kingdom  

recently shorn of much of its territory owing to  french aggression as a protective measure in 1909  

four tributary states were transferred to british  southern teeth everything seems to point to a  

french protectorate of siam in the near future  but that never happened most exceptionally for  

a country in southern asia it never passed  under colonial rule i'm here to find out why

my quest will take me from the city of chiang mai  in northern thailand south through the once vast  

teak forest of lampang on my way to the old  capital of ayutia to the west of today's capital  

bangkok i'll make a stop at the meiklong railway  market before ending close to the border with  

myanmar at kanchanaburi on the journey i find out  about one of thailand's great monarchs king chala  

long gone is up to today michael uh venerated for  i'm saving thailand from this colonial threat take  

cover in an umbrella factory how do i look wow  you look like an astronaut and discover the potent  

ingredients of thai cooking so this is a shrimp  paste really yeah you can check the smell and um

i'm beginning my thai adventure in  the city of chiang mai thank you thank  

it you once the capital of a medieval  kingdom with connections to burma and laos  

and today is the largest city in northern thailand

the guidebook tells me that the railway  was about to be completed to chiang mai  

in 1913. now that was politically significant  because the french and british colonial powers  

were sniffing around this autonomous  region and now it will be connected to  

bangkok the royal capital of siam not just  by the ping river but by a permanent way

chiang mai is still the northernmost  point on thailand's rail network  

it was a royal city founded in 1296  where art and culture flourished

today it's a sprawling laid  back place with a walled  

old city of about one square mile at its heart  

in olden times the city was often attacked  

besieged and occupied so when they came to  build the fortifications they constructed not  

only a wall but for good measure a moat chiang  mai chiang mai so good they ringed it twice

i'm beginning inside the old city at a  temple which houses some of chiang mai's  

most impressive buildings what pressing and even  my western eyes can appreciate its enormous beauty  

and i sense its spirituality but i need  to understand what it means for thailand  

buddhism is centuries older than christianity  the year 2020 in the buddhist calendar is 2563

and this temple has housed since 1367  a.d a very revered statue of the buddha  

it's said that more than 90 of thais are  buddhist which would mean 60 million people  

one of the biggest populations of buddhists  in the world and just before my guidebook  

was published the king rama v created a supreme  council for the sangha that is the monastic order  

that originated with the disciples of the buddha  and with that act he brought together the king  

religion and the people in a  bond which is the thai state

i'm not a religious person but it's  impossible not to be affected by this  

glorious architecture of this ancient building  its faded murals the center of the candles  

and of the flowers the golden buddha and i'm  born along by the melodic chanting of the monks

to understand more about this temple  and this northern region of thailand  

noon hello pleased to meet you michael pleased  to meet you and in such glorious surroundings  

this wonderful temple might i see something like  this anywhere in thailand this temple especially  

the elegantly decorated assembly  hall that you can see behind us  

is actually typically lana what was lada okay lon  in thai means a million and na means rice field  

lana is the name of the kingdom which chiang mai  was the capital chiang mai was an independent  

kingdom until the early 20th century how did that  position of independence come to an end at the  

turn of the 20th century chiang mai was annexed  by the kingdom of siam to be part of the kingdom  

of siam and for what reason for two reasons the  most important reason being the presence of the  

british empire in neighboring myanmar siam seeing  this colonial threat decided to annex chiang mai  

as a butt first date along with other uh provinces  in the north of thailand the second reason being  

the teagwood business which was one of the most  valuable natural resources in this region the  

guidebook which i'm using my branch guide  yes describes thailand as being surrounded  

by a burma by malaysia by indochina do you think  that's the way that thailand felt that it was  

surrounded yes uh very much king chala long  gone is up to today michael uh venerated for  

um saving thailand from this um colonial threats  king rama the fourth so king jalal ghan's father  

he already had this visions you know this  maybe we can call this fear of european  

expansionism because um during his reign he  invited a british lady on a leonovens and anna  

leo nolans actually taught king rama the fifth to  speak english so he was quite a westernized king  

anna's account of her time at the royal court  was turned into a novel a musical and a film  

the king and i but actor yul brinner's portrayal  of the scholarly king rama iv as a childish  

tyrant caused great offence in thailand the  film was banned and remained so to this day  

rama the fourth's adoption  of western ideas shaped siam  

when his son tuna long gone king rama v came  to the throne he began to modernize his country  

building a railway network reforming the law  and striking deals with european colonial powers  

here in chiang mai the british built a consulate  which they used to promote their interests

a very very grand house for a british consulate  what use did they make of the building  

well apart from the consulate prerogatives it was  also the center for british social life this is  

the center for sport and society polo for example  uh cricket as well so you'll be surprised to hear  

about the consular elephants elephants yes yes  i'm surprised what were they where the british  

kept the king's polo elephants four of king  george v elephants were stabled at the consulate  

their duties included bearing luggage for the  consul when he toured the remote northern regions  

how did the british use this building to exert  their influence the british actually had a lot  

of privileges here british banks were established  here commerces and also i have to mention  

about the the monopoly of teagwood exploitation  that was granted by king julien himself  

the guidebook leads me to believe that a french  protectorate in sam is imminent why does it not  

happen king julia long gone was an astute diplomat  you know he played this game in to moderate  

tensions between france and britain this piece  of ground was granted by king julia long gone  

to britain and just opposite the road  another piece of ground was given  

to france so he keeps the balance between  the british and the french he did he did

king chulalongkorn's shrewd deal-making  kept the rival colonial powers at bay  

and thailand was left as a buffer zone  between their two southeast asian empires  

my bradshaw's prediction of an imminent french  protectorate didn't come to pass although the  

british never annexed chiang mai they used the  social life of their consulate ruthlessly to push  

for their influence and their commercial interests  in the process giving an elbow to the french  

sometimes garden party diplomacy can  be as effective as gunboat diplomacy

at the time of my guidebook this region was being  drawn into the country now known as thailand  

but it has always retained its own identity its  lana heritage is rich in artisan crafts so i've  

come to the village of bosang just east of the  city in search of something to keep the monsoon  

off my breadshores the inscription tells us that  a monk called pra intar was one day visiting  

the border with burma for a meditation and he  saw the procedure by which umbrellas were made  

wrote it all down and brought the technology  back to his village ever since which people  

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