Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch "This is a beautifully written

"This is a beautifully written and carefully argued account of care in the context of karma

Review by The Guardian (Thursday 11 September 2014)

“An excellent

but that underestimates the importance of the colonial context

Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai Duch "This is a beautifully writtenChiang Mai (literally, new city) suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyline. In Ghosts of the New City, Andrew Alan Johnson shows how the trauma of the crash, brought back vividly by the political crisis of 2006, haunts efforts to remake