A Study on the Evolution of Thai Court Literature: Analysis of the influence of Chinese culture on Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's literary creation and translation

Abstract

ABSTRACT

In the long history of Thai literature from ancient literature to modern and contemporary literature, Thai literature has undergone a series of evolutions. The court literature, with court literati as the main creative group of ancient literature, gradually lost the dominant position of Thai literature in modern literature. It quietly withdrew from the Thai literary scene and replaced it with popular literature. Folk writers began to dominate Thai literature.

The thesis analyzes the influence of Chinese culture on Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri

Sirindhorn's literary creation and translation of literary works through the study of the development and changes of Thai literature. The thesis takes the evolution of Thai literary genre and subject matter, the evolution of prose travel notes and the evolution of translation of Chinese literary works as the main research objects. It outlines the context of the development of Thai literature,  explains the historical background of the development of Thai literature and analyzes the reasons for the evolution of court literature.

With the development of history, Thai court literary writers as a whole group of writers gradually withdrew from the Thai literary world. A large number of modern Thai literary works began to come from the hands of folk writers, while literary works from the court are rare. However, the literary creation of court writers did not stop completely. In the 1980s, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, the daughter of King IX of Bangkok became the representative of contemporary court writers and the main literary writer from the court. Under the influence of Chinese culture, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn not only wrote many prose travel notes, but also translated many modern and contemporary Chinese literary works. Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn became the promoter of cultural exchanges between China and Thailand, the promoter of the integration of Chinese and Thai literature, and the messenger of friendly exchanges between the people of China and Thailand.