Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell arrived in Northern Thailand in 1912. She was awed by its beauty and became devoted to its people. This work casts light on colonialism, the Asia missions, and the convulsive changes that a newly united Thailand underwent in the early 20th century.
Rosalind C. Morris is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa (Columbia, 2025) and, with William Kentridge, Accounts and Drawings from Underground (rev. ed., Seagull, 2021). Her most recent film is the documentary We are Zama Zama (2021).