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Rama I was the founder of the Siamese (Thai) [[Chakri Dynasty]], the dynasty which continues to reign in Thailand today. He took the throne in [[1782]].
Rama I was the founder of the Siamese (Thai) [[Chakri Dynasty]], the dynasty which continues to reign in Thailand today. He took the throne in [[1782]]. A man of partially Chinese descent, he was the son-in-law of the founder of the previous dynasty, [[Taksin]], who was the son of [[Guangdong province|Guangdong]] merchant Zheng Yung and a Siamese mother.<ref>Craig Lockard, “‘The Sea Common to All’: Maritime Frontiers, Port Cities, and Chinese Traders in the Southeast Asian Age of Commerce, Ca. 1400–1750.” ''Journal of World History'' 21, no. 2 (2010): 244.</ref>
In contrast to the Confucian and Chinese-influenced kingdoms in [[Korea]], [[Vietnam]], [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyu]], and elsewhere, the king was seen as a [[bodhisattva]], and as ''[[chakravartin]]'', a universal monarch not as explicated in a Confucian cosmology, but rather in a Hindu/Brahminist one.
In contrast to the Confucian and Chinese-influenced kingdoms in [[Korea]], [[Vietnam]], [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyu]], and elsewhere, the king was seen as a [[bodhisattva]], and as ''[[chakravartin]]'', a universal monarch not as explicated in a Confucian cosmology, but rather in a Hindu/Brahminist one.
Despite this, rituals and protocols at the Chakri court came to be influenced by Chinese examples, and Siam regularly sent [[tribute]] to [[Qing Dynasty]] China, the Chinese Confucian worldview not being seen as too problematic nor as a challenge to Siam's heavily Indic-influenced political culture.
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==References==
==References==
*Mark Mancall, "The Ch'ing Tribute System: An Interpretive Essay," in John K. Fairbank (ed.) ''The Chinese World Order'', Harvard University Press (1968), 68.
*Mark Mancall, "The Ch'ing Tribute System: An Interpretive Essay," in John K. Fairbank (ed.) ''The Chinese World Order'', Harvard University Press (1968), 68.
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