Christopher Baker is a professional wine and food educator, a writer of short stories, a contributor to journals on wine and other alcoholic beverages, on food, and, as a frustrated mariner, he writes stories on ships and shipping.
Chris is widely travelled having worked, apart from the UK, in Iraq, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Chile, Argentina, Italy and India, and was in Baghdad, Iraq for three years with the United Nations branch ILO, the International Labour Organisation, as an Expert in Food and Beverage Operations and Management, from 1980-1983.
Chris was the founder and Director of the Hong Kong Wine School which was the accredited regional course and examination centre for the Wine and Spirit Education Trust of Great Britain, carrying out courses to Certificate, Higher Certificate and Diploma levels not only in Hong Kong but in China, Macao, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia, Chile, Argentina and India. The Hong Kong Wine School was in operation from 1990 to 2000. Chris retired in that year to return to the UK.
Chris has been a judge in International Wine Competitions in Hong Kong, Australia, Chile, Italy and Argentina. Chris has presented papers at the VIII and VIX Wine Technology Symposiums "Renato Ratti" in Verona, Italy, and conducted seminars during VINEXPO events in Hong Kong.
Chris lives in retirement in South Devon, England, with his cat Alfie.

1. Before Bangkok; 2. The old order in transition, 1760s to 1860s; 3. Reforms, 1850s to 1910s; 4. Peasants, merchants, and officials, 1870s to 1930s; 5. Nationalisms, 1910s to 1940s; 6. The American era and development, 1940s to 1960s; 7. Ideologies, 1940s to 1970s; 8. Globalisation and mass society, 1970s to 2000s; 9. Politics contested, 1970s to 2000s; 10. Troubles, 2005 to 2021; Postscript: Thailand's future.