In the case of Siam, Chulalongkorn's twenty-seven brothers in fact have been seen as the only reliable group of 'modernizers' in the kingdom, because most of the aristocracy did not attempt to obtain a Western education.
From Frank Tipton's The Rise of Asia, which I have to read for Asian History.
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Date: 2007-10-20 07:19 am (UTC)From Frank Tipton's The Rise of Asia, which I have to read for Asian History.