OPINION

Mystery shrouds the real Jit Phumisak story

News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 14/05/2013

» Who was the real Jit Phumisak? The gifted linguist, willing to risk his college career arguing over a single archaic word? Co-translator of the Communist Manifesto? A radical historian who subversively upended centuries of received knowledge with a bold new history of Thailand? Poet? Composer? Loving son? Jungle fighter?