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Voyage up the Irrawaddy
 Journal of a Voyage up the Irrawaddy to Mandalay and Bhamo. A little known volume containing an official report on a visit up the Irrawaddy river to Mandalay and Bhamo a decade before that last part of Burma was incorporated in the British empire, and its king exiled to India. Illustrated with contemporary watercolours not in the original edition. |
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Rough Trip to Rangoon by Colesworthy Grant
Rough Pencillings of a Rough Trip to Rangoon in 1846 was written by the well known Anglo-Indian artist and draftsman Colesworthy Grant who made his first visit to Burma in 1846, and this report with his pencil drawings has long been completely unavailable. Less than a decade later, he accompanied the large Phayre mission to Burma and made numerous illustrations for that mission's report, but the present work is among the first with illustrations of Rangoon when it was still a small trading post. |
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Note on a Tour in Burma by F.O. Oertel
A Tour of Burma is an almost forgotten report on Burma and contains a detailed survey of historical sites, and includes photographs not previously reproduced. A rare work not found in most bibliographies on Burma. |
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Land of Jade by Bertil Lintner
A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China A classic on recent Burmese history. Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner spent one and a half years travelling through northern and eastern Burma in 1985-1987 describing with care and deep insight the struggle by the Kachin and Shan ethnic groups against Burmese army rule, and recording the decline and fall of the CPB - the Communist Party of Burma. |
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The Caged Ones by Ludu U Hla
A Burmese Political Prisoner in the 1950s Imprisoned for political reasons in the 1950s, Ludu U Hla - perhaps Burma's most prolific modern author - penned these sensitive portraits of his fellows behind bars. His sympathetic probe of 'criminals' old and new, willing and unwilling, exposes many of the social pressures and failings that turn the weak, the young and unfortunate against society, and harden them in a career of crime. One understands why the author was imprisoned; the underlying social conditions described so masterfully in this book are in good part a result of social and economic policies, or lack thereof, on the part of his jailors. |
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On the Road to Mandalay by Mya Than Tint
Portraits of Ordinary Burmese People Inspired by Chicago journalist Stud Terkel's accounts of hopes and dreams of ordinary Americans, Rangoon based writer Mya Than Tint introduces us to thirty-four of Burma's forty-four million 'ordinary people', the a-nya-ta-ra. As he travelled through Burma on literacy lecture tours in the late 1980s, he encountered porters, sailors, fortune-tellers, waitresses, artists and petty criminals 'on the road to Mandalay'. |
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Inked Over, Ripped Out by Anna J. Allott
Burmese Storytellers and the Censors A PEN American Center "Freedom-to-Write" Report featuring stories by seven Burmese writers, selected and translated with an introduction and explanatory notes by Anna J. Allott. The stories are: * The Advertising Wagon by Ne Win Myint * He's Not My Father by Nu Nu Yi * Three Stories by U Win Pe * A Pair of Specs by U Win Pe * The Children Who Play in the Back Alleyways by San San Nweh * The Python by Nyi Pu Lay * Heartless Day by Mo Cho Thinn * Hard Labor by Ataram |
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Living Silence by Christina Fink
Burma under Military Rule Burma remains the odd man out in Southeast Asia. While other countries have democratized and prospered, Burma is governed by a repressive military dictatorship, its economy has collapsed, and it is the second largest producer of heroin in the world. In this exceptionally readable yet scholarly account of Burma today, Christina Fink gives a moving and insightful picture of what life under military rule is like. Through the extensive interviews conducted inside and outside the country, we begin to understand the accommodations that people feel compelled to make in order to carry on with daily life, including the innovative forms of resistance that some courageous Burmese have engaged in. |
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Aung San by Angelene Naw
The Struggle for Burmese Independence Aung San, "the architect of Burma's freedom," was one of the most important political figures in the history of Burma's struggle for independence. Beginning as a student leader and activist in the 1930s, Aung San went on to assume prominent leadership positions in Burma's nationalist movement. At the beginning of World War II, he organized a clandestine trip to Japan in search of funds and military training in order to fight against British imperialism, but his close-knit group of "Thirty Comrades" found it necessary to resist not only the British, but also the Japanese. |
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Shwedagon by Elizabeth Moore, Hansjörg Mayer and U Win Pe
Golden Pagoda of Myanmar For many centuries the golden stupa of the Shwedagon, the pagoda enshrining the sacred hairs of the Buddha, has dominated the landscape of Rangoon and, since the 19th century, it has been the spiritual symbol of the entire Burmese nation. Few other countries have a shrine such as this, ancient yet so much a part of today. Everyone who has been to Myanmar has a memory of their first visit to the Shwedagon, for all born in Myanmar, the Shwedagon is part of their life. |
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