6. Sipsongpanna
(Xishuangbanna).
Yunnan.
China.
1983.
The
Tai
Lue
people,
villages
like
these
are
scaAered
throughout
the
suburbs
of
Chiang
Rung(Jing
Hong).
36. Princess
Dara
Rasami
le9ng
down
her
hair;
note
the
way
it
becomes
visible
from
behind
in
the
full-‐length
mirror.
That
Dara
Rasami
conPnued
to
dress
in
her
naPve
style
over
the
decades
she
lived
in
the
palace
was
unusual.
There
had
been
only
one
other
consort
who
had
come
to
the
palace
from
Lan
Na
during
the
FiSh
Reign:
Chao
Chom
Manda
(Consort-‐
Mother)
Thipkesorn,
who
was
a
cousin
of
Dara
Rasami.
ASer
entering
the
Siamese
palace,
Thipkesorn
had
cut
her
hair
short,
and
started
dressing
in
Siamese
style.
Dara
Rasami
always
dressed
in
her
naPve
style,
even
while
she
served
in
another
royal
consort’s
entourage.
However,
as
the
princess
of
the
royal
house
of
Chiang
Mai,
Dara
Rasami
had
entered
the
palace
at
quite
a
different
level
from
Thipkesorn,
serving
as
a
lady-‐in-‐waiPng
to
Queen
Saowapha
herself;
thus
Dara
Rasami’s
display
of
difference
appears
to
have
carried
a
different
value
than
Thipkesorn’s.
37. The
Princess
looks
back
at
the
viewer
via
the
tabletop
mirror,
her
hair
unwound
from
its
customary
bun.
Here
it
will
be
producPve
to
compare
and
contrast
the
images
of
Dara
Rasami
to
formal
portraits
of
Queen
Saowapha,
considering
three
of
their
main
elements:
first,
the
se^ng
and/
or
backdrop;
second,
disPncPve
elements
of
dress
and
hairstyle;
third,
the
interrelated
issues
of
pose
and
gaze.
38. Recently
promoted
to
the
rank
of
High
Queen
[พระราชชายา],
Dara
Rasami
poses
for
a
formal
portrait
in
her
hometown,
Chiang
Mai.
Note
that
she
wears
a
phasin
[skirt]
made
from
a
Burmese
court
texJle
called
luntaya.[58]
(Probably
taken
at
the
Chiang
Mai
studio
of
Japanese
photographer
S.
Tanaka,
41. Kawilorot (พระเจ้ากาวิโลรสสุริยวงศ์) König von Chiang Mai
Die
briPsche
Indo-‐Chinese
Sugar
Company
erhält
die
Genehmigung,
in
Siam
Zuckerrohr
anzubauen
und
zu
Zucker
zu
verarbeiten.
Commercial
development
all
this
Pme
was
proceeding
apace.
In
the
summer
of
1869
the
Indo-‐Chinese
Sugar
Company,
a
BriPsh
enterprise,
applied
for
and
obtained
from
the
Siamese
Government
a
grant
of
land
for
the
erecPon
of
mills
and
culPvaPon
of
sugar-‐cane.
The
grant
embraced
3,000
acres
of
excellent
land,
and
the
rent
fixed
was
the
low
one
of
2s.
3d.
per
acre.
The
Government,
to
further
meet
the
promoters
of
the
enterprise,
reduced
the
inland
duty
on
sugar
by
one-‐half.
Thus
encouraged,
the
company
imported
and
set
up
large
sugar
mills
on
the
newest
principle,
and
immediately
put
a
large
tract
of
land
under
culPvaPon.
Nor
was
this
the
only
outcome
of
the
Government's
liberal
policy.
The
naPve
growers,
finding
that
they
had
now
some
one
to
deal
with
them
on
fair
terms,
showed
an
anxiety
to
extend
their
culPvaPon
and
to
enter
into
contracts
with
the
new
company
for
cane.
[Quelle:
Arnold
Wright
in:
Twen0eth
century
impressions
of
Siam
:
its
history,
people,
commerce,
industries,
and
resources
/
ed.
in
chief:
Arnold
Wright.
-‐-‐
London
[etc.]
:
Lloyds,
1908.
-‐-‐
S.
68]
104. King
Chulalongkorn
the
Great
(Rama
V)
of
Siam,
with
his
family.
In
this
photo,
Crown
Prince
Vajirunhis
leans
on
his
father's
chair,
while
the
future
King
Rama
VI,
Prince
Vajiravudh,
stands
behind
the
queen's
chair:
105. Krom Phra Rajawang Bovorn Vichaichan (กรมพระราชวังบวรวิไชยชาญ) (1838
- 1885) ist Front Palace (Uparaj) (กรมพระราชวังบวรสถานมงคล).
Krom
Phra
Rajawang
Bovorn
Vichaichan
(Thai:
กรม
พระราชวังบวรวิไชยชาญ)
or
Phra
Ong
Chao
Yodyingyot
(or
Yingyot)
(พระองค์เจ้ายอดยิ่งยศ)
(6
April
1838
–
28
August
1885)
was
a
Siamese
Prince
and
member
of
the
Chakri
Dynasty.
He
was
the
eldest
son
of
King
Pinklao
(พระบาท
สมเด็จพระปิ่นเกล้าเจ้าอยู่หัว,
1808
-‐
1866)
and
Princess
Aim,
and
thus
nephew
to
King
Mongkut
(Rama
IV).
Vichaichan
succeeded
his
father
by
being
appointed
the
Front
Palace
(กรมพระราชวังบวรสถานมงคล)
and
Vice
King
of
Siam
in
1868,
during
the
reign
of
his
cousin
King
Chulalongkorn
(Rama
V).[1]
During
his
tenure
the
office
of
Front
Palace
was
extremely
powerful
and
rivalled
that
of
the
monarch's
own.
Inevitably
the
two
forces
clashed
in
the
Front
Palace
crisis
(วิกฤตการณ์วังหน้า).[2]
Vichaichan
was
defeated
and
the
power
of
the
Front
Palace
was
greatly
diminished.
ASer
his
death
in
1885,
the
last
vesPges
of
the
Ptle
were
abolished
in
favour
of
a
Crown
Prince
(สยามมกุฎราชกุมาร).[3]