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the present volume focuses on the processes of “imagining communities” to explore how people imagine and create their own sense of knowledge

Based substantially on historical Chinese

such as gender

open door policies

not least in regional diplomacy

Cindamani–The Odd Content Version: A Critical Edition yao the present volume focuses onCindamaniThe Odd Content Version (Thai: ) is the least known and studied version among the recognized texts of Cindamani, the traditional manual on Thai orthography and poetics, whose earliest tradition can be traced back to the reign of King Narai of Ayutthaya in the second half of the seventeenth century. Despite being labeled by modern scholars as odd, this version shares a close content related to the other versions from the Ayutthaya period,