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ranging from monuments to intangible heritage

The new transnational “economic corridors” connecting northern Thailand and southwestern China via key border towns in Myanmar and Laos have greatly increased the volume of trade and transshipment in the region

Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand Kinship may require a writer toI stayed (in the forest) for two nights. The first night, nothing happened. The second night, at about one or two in the morning, a tiger camewhich meant that I didnt get any sleep the whole night. I sat in meditation, scared stiff, while the tiger walked around and around my umbrella tent (klot). My body felt all frozen and numb. I started chanting,and the words come out like running water. All the old chants I had forgotten now came back to me,