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As a prominent leader of the student movement in Thailand in the 1970s, Thongchai Winichakul was arrested and charged with being a communist, a rebel, and killing policemen in the massacre of student demonstrators at Thammasat University in 1976. His case was dropped in the amnesty of 1978. He has since turned to academic life and in 1988 received his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney. He is currently assistant professor of Southeast Asian history at the University of Wisconsin in MadisonThongchai Winichakul is the author of 'Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation' with ISBN 9780824813376 and ISBN 0824813375.
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