100 ปี คนจีนในพะเยา: พลวัตทางการเมืองและสังคม

Abstract

This research is about the political and social dynamics of Chinese People in Phayao, which draws upon documents and interviews. The research discovered that over 100 years ago until the present, the lives of the Chinese people in Phayao has moved and negotiated under the effect of Thailand and China Nation-State building as well as social and political global dynamics. In other words, the reasons that forced Chinese Phayao People venture out from the mainland were due to the political conflict between the Qing dynasty and The Tongmenghui (Chinese United League), the Guomindang and the Communist, the invasion of Japan, and the famine on their motherland. When they started living in Phayao, they confronted the nation-state building and nationalism era. When the world has turned to be capitalism and globalization and China become an economic superpower, however, Chinese descendants in Phayao reidentify their ethnic identities.