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Hopes for rebirth and fears of decline have their roots in Thai conceptions of progress
Flemming Ytzen is an editor and columnist at the Danish daily
He describes his departure with the French troops from the country
fervent imagination to a landscape
Masked: The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam myanmar politics Hopes for rebirth and fearsA brave British widow goes to Siam andby dint of her principled and indomitable characterinspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. Three decades after her death, in the 1940s and 1950s, the story would be transformed into a powerful Western myth by Margaret