The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Buddhism, Belonging and Detachment—Some Paradoxes of Chinese Ethnicity in Thailand
Abstract
It can be argued that full assimilation of Chinese immigrants into an alien society has proceeded longer and on a larger scale in Thailand than anywhere else. It was Chinese potters who built the first kilns at Sukhothai and Sawankhalok; Thai tradition says that King Ram Kamhaeng, who threw off Khmer domination and invented the Thai script, personally went to China to bring back five hundred artisans. And Chinese traders at Ayutthaya contributed decisively toward its becoming very large and very rich. Then, and later at Thonburi and Bangkok, Chinese skill and labor were crucial; successful immigrants were given great responsibilities and corresponding rewards as servants of the throne, and at all levels of the social scale were welcomed as husbands and sons-in-law. Though greatly altered by modern nationalisms on both sides, the mutual openness of Thai and Chinese has persisted, perhaps more strongly than contemporary observers have appreciated.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“More importantly is that the Ghost Festival mentioned in Tobias (1977, 323), as well as other Chinese religious rituals in Thailand (Formoso 1996; Hill 1992) serve to maintain ThaiChinese ethnic boundary and, unlike the Ghost Festival studied in this paper, show no sign of deliberated Therava ¯daization.”
From Theravādizing Ghost Festival in Taiwan (2012) · cites this paper as Tobias 1977
In the citing paper
“There exists, however, a syncretic form of Ghost Festival in Therava ¯da countries where the ethnic Chinese population is substantial.”
From Theravādizing Ghost Festival in Taiwan (2012) · cites this paper as Tobias 1977
In the citing paper
“though it appears that the Ghost Festival in Tobias's report has more in common with the Ghost Festival in Chinese popular religions than with those I have witnessed at Buddhist temples in Taiwan:”
From Theravādizing Ghost Festival in Taiwan (2012) · cites this paper as Tobias 1977
Citations
Cites
No references could be resolved yet.
Research works printed but not linked: 46
- Fitzgerald, 1972, China and the Overseas Chinese, a Study of Peking's Changing Policies, 1949–1970
- Parker, 1891, The China Review, XIX, 72
- Van Vliet, 1910, Description of the Kingdom of Siam, VII, 6
- Notton, 1939, Legendes sur le Siam et le Cambodge
- 1919, “Siamese History prior to the Founding of Ayutthaya,”, JSS, XIII, 1
- Stevens, 1972, “Three Chinese Deities,”, Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XII, 193
- Kuei-sheng, 1976, Ming Biographical Dictiomtry, 194
- Swearer, 1971, Toward the Truth: Buddhadasa
- Geertz, 1968, Islam Observed
- Wolf, 1974, Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society
- Leach, 1961, Rethinking Anthropology
- Barth, 1969, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries
- 1975, Ethnicity
- Tugby, 1973, Studies in Contemporary Thailand, 8, 273
- Riggs, 1957, Thailand: The Modernization of a Bu- reaucratic Polity
- Amyot, 1973, The Manila Chinese
- Willmott, 1967, The Chinese in Cambodia, 10.59962/9780774858021 · DOI
- de Glopper, 1972, Economic Organization in Chinese Society, 297
- Skinner, 1960, “Chance and Persistence in Chinese Culture Overseas: A Comparison of Thailand and Java,”, Journal of the South Seas Society, XVI, 86
- 1948, Colonial Policy and Practice in the Far East
- Punyodyana, 1971, Chinese-Thai Differential Assimilation in Bangkok: An Exploratory Study
- Coughlin, 1960, Double Identity: The Chinese in Modern Bangkok
- Landon, 1941, The Chinese in Thailand
- Wickberg, 1965, The Chinese in Philippine Life, 1850–1898
- Blofeld, 1971, Visakha Puja, 47
- 1974, “Ethnicity and Commerce,”, American Ethnologist, I, 437
- LeVine, 1971, Ethnocentrism, Theories of Conflict, Ethnic Attitudes and Group Behavior
- Gung-wu, 1968, The Chinese World Order, 34
- Freedman, 1964, Man, State, and Society in Southeast Asia
- 1972, The Inter-pretation of Cultures
- 1968, The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia
- Giap, 1966, “Group Conflict in a Plural Society,”, Revue du Sudest Asiatique, I, 1
- Skinner, 1957, Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytic History
- 1968, American Kinship: a Cultural Account
- Purcell, 1965, The Chinese in Southeast Asia
- Kung-ch'üan, 1960, Rural China: Imperial Control in the 19th Century, 275
- 1958, Leadership and Power in the Chinese Community of Thailand
- 10.1037/e596452011-001 · DOI
- Fingarette, 1972, Confucius: The Secular as Sacred
- Radcliffe-Brown, 1924, Structure and Function in Primitive Society
- 10.1177/030639686801000105 · DOI
- Welch, 1967, The Practice of Chinese Buddhism
- Tambiah, 1973, “Persistence and Transformation of Tradition in Southeast Asia, with Special Reference to Thailand,”, Post-Traditional Societies, CII
- 1970, Homo Hierarchical
- Willmott, 1960, The Chinese of Semarang
- 1915, “The Story of the Records of Siamese History”, Journal of the Siam Society, XI, 1
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Theravādizing Ghost Festival in Taiwan
Cheng, W.-Y. (2012) · Contemporary Buddhism · doi:10.1080/14639947.2012.716704 · Cited by 6
Metadata
- Authors
- Tobias, S. F.
- Corresponding author
- Tobias, Stephen F.
- Venue
- The Journal of Asian Studies
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 1977-02
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 303-326
- ISSN
- 0021-9118 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0401
- OpenAlex
- W2006325340
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Asian Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Keywords
- Chinese ethnicity, Chinese immigrants, assimilation, Buddhism, sense of belonging, detachment, ethnic identity, nationalism, Thailand
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Buddhism, Belonging and Detachment—Some Paradoxes of Chinese Ethnicity in Thailand. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2307/2053725
- The paper
- Tobias, S. F. (1977). Buddhism, Belonging and Detachment—Some Paradoxes of Chinese Ethnicity in Thailand. The Journal of Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.2307/2053725
