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In this highly personal account, the author, Chao Tzang Yawnghwe, a son of the first President of the Union of Burma, tells of his youth and involvement in the Shan resistance movement. He gives his version of Shan history and explains the complexity of Shan politics covering the issues of autonomy, Shan-Burmese relations, opium, and other contraband trade. He discusses the personalities involved in the war that is now more than twenty years old. The final part of this book is a compendium of who's who in Shan history and politics. The author passed away in July 2004. ... Read more

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After careful re-reading and analysis of original Old Burmese and other primary sources, the author discovered that four out of the five events considered to be the most important in the history of early Burma, and believed to have been historically accurate, are actually late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century inventions of colonial historians caught in their own intellectual and political world. Only one of these is a genuine indigenous Burmese myth, but it too has been embellished by modern historians. The author discusses each of these five myths and concludes with an assessment of the current situation in Burma in the context of the new myths springing up today, thereby bringing the thirteenth century into the twentieth. ... Read more

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Interesting --but the bulk is for scholars only.
Although this work is clearly intended for readers with a level of Burma scholarship much higher than mine, and I cannot judge it properly, in the absence of any other reviews, I hope to provide a description of the book so that other potential buyers may judge its worth to them personally more fully.

The author is a Burma historian who argues that several key events in Burmese history as it is traditionally told in the English language lack evidence. He argues that these events have been created or substantially reworked to serve the views and interpretive framework of several early European scholars of Burmese history, including G.H. Luce in particular. Although the arguments appear well done, unless one has a substantial knowledge of early Burmese history, and is familiar with the events discussed, this work is difficult to follow. (I have a strong background in Chinese history but not in Burmese history.)

Therefore for the average reader, this work is difficult to follow throughout and discusses events at a level higher than many who might at first have an interest in the work.

In the concluding chapter however, things pick up substantially as the author begins to argue that the same myth-making apparatus is being used to interpret and provide a framework for modern events including the 1962 coup, the career and life of Aung San and the events of the life of Aung San Su Kyi, his daughter and Nobel prize-winner.

For many, despite the in-depth analysis shown in the bulk of the book, unless one is familiar with early Burmese history, it might be just as well to simply read this concluding chapter. An interesting read, but with a limited audience. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Burma," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Burma in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Burma when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Burma, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Burma," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Burma in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Burma when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Burma, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Political Geography, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The discordance between the conceptual de jure delimitation of the world space and the lived territorialities at the sites of the international boundaries is widely accepted in political geography. However, viewing the de facto phenomena as challenging, defying and ignoring the boundaries, or vice versa, is trapped in the modernist dualism. The paper follows Soja's call for expanding the scope of geographical imagination into three interdependent and interreactive moments of space - conceived, perceived and lived - and through this tri-cameral lens examines the little known spaces on the Sino-Burmese boundary and the territorialities of the Kachin nation delimited into Burma and China. The paper accounts how the power of the 'conceptual' controls the perceived moment of space - explicit in the creative adjustments to the boundary by the local actors - while many Kachin spatial practices continue unchanged in the alternative lived space. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1226 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Legend Of The Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China and Burma.(Book Review) (book review)
Author: Richard A. Crooker
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 92Issue: 3Page: 466(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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An introduction to Burma, site of beautiful and historic religious temples and land of constant fighting. ... Read more

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Realistic
I recommend this book for both children and adults, as it is quite frank and realistic.I wish I would have read it before I became involved with helping Burmese refugees in America.In a well-organized format, it describes the superstitions, diversity, and political/economic angst of Burma.However, it does not describe the second class status of women, as accurately as the book Cultures of the World: Burma -- something I feel is key to understanding these people and Buddhism. ... Read more

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This pictorial book on the Irrawaddy River traces the river which flows through the heart of Myanmar. Unlike other great rivers that are shared by several countries, the Irrawaddy belongs entirely to Myanmar; the identities of few other nations and rivers are so closely intertwined. Irrawaddy: Benevolent River of Burma traces the course of the great river, and through it the history and culture of the people who live along its banks.

This is a non-political book and does not pass any political judgements. ... Read more

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Saigon, Kampuchea, and Burma. These names of places in Asia are like many that once existed but now officially do not. As the times have changed, so have the names, but many of the old labels still live on. To forget them would be to forget the people and events that made those places what they are today.Readers of this book will find accounts of one city, three countries, and four empires. Unfortunately, much of the history of these places is extremely bloody. Stories of wars, mass killings, executions, and uprisings fill these pages. In this book, however, readers will also find tales of individuals and groups of people who stood tall in the middle of all that chaos, destruction, and horror. They may not have always won their battles, but with great courage, they always held out hope for a better future. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bay of Bengal, the largest bay of the world, forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It resembles a triangle in shape, and is bordered by Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal to the north (where the name comes from), India and Sri Lanka to the west and Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the east.Its southern boundary extends as an imaginary line from Dondra Head at the southern end of Sri Lankato the northern tip of Sumatra. ... Read more

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Arunachal Pradesh is the easternmost state of India. Arunachal Pradesh borders with the Indian state of Assam to the south and Nagaland to the southeast. Burma/Myanmar lies to the east, Bhutan to the west.north, it borders with with Tibet, ruled by the People's Republic of China. China disputes the border, which is the McMahon Line agreed to by Great Britain and then-independent Tibet in a 1914 treaty. Itanagar is the capital of the state. Although Arunachal Pradesh is administered as an Indian State, the People's Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) claim portions of the state as South Tibet. Arunachal Pradesh means "land of the dawn lit mountains" in Sanskrit. It is also known as "land of the rising sun" ("pradesh" means "state" or "region") in reference to its position as the easternmost state of India. Most of the people native to and/or living in Arunachal Pradesh are of Tibeto-Burman origin. A large and increasing number of migrants have reached Arunachal Pradesh from many other parts of India, although no reliable population count of the migrant population has been conducted, and percentage estimates of total population accordingly vary widely. ... Read more