ABSTRACT

Major General Phasouk S. Rajphakd and Brigadier General Soutchay Vongsavanh were important right-wing military officers in the Royal Lao Army in southern Laos before 1975. However, elite family relations in Laos – especially between prominent families from the north and the south – greatly affected how they acted and interacted over the years. This article considers family relations in Laos during the 1960s and early 1970s. Kinship relations are certainly not determinant of all social or political interactions, as individual agency is also important, but they are often crucial nonetheless. There has been insufficient discussion about how elite family relations played out in Laos during the 1954–1975 period. To partially fill this gap, this article explores how tensions between the House of Champassak in southern Laos and the House of Luang Prabang and the powerful Sananikone family in Vientiane led to disunity amongst non-communist factions in Laos, and eventually contributed to the Pathet Lao takeover of the country in 1975.

抽象的

帕索克·拉杰帕克少将和苏奇·旺萨凡准将是1975年以前老挝南部老挝皇家陆军的重要右翼军官。但是，老挝的精英家庭关系，特别是北方和南方著名家庭之间的关系非常严重这些年来他们的行为和互动方式。本文考虑了1960年代和1970年代初期老挝的家庭关系。亲属关系当然不是所有社会或政治互动的决定因素，因为单个机构也很重要，但它们通常仍然至关重要。关于1954年至1975年期间老挝精英家庭关系如何发展的讨论还不够充分。为了部分填补这一空白，