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Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Wendy Law-Yone was fifteen at the time of Burma's military coup in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of Rangoon Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language daily, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma. On the eve of Wendy's studies abroad, Ed Law-Yone was arrested, his newspaper shut down, and Wendy herself was briefly imprisoned. After his release, Ed fled to Thailand with his family,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Thant tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Mac McClelland draws on her travels in Thailand and her interactions with the associates of a United States-designated terrorist organization to explore the origins, impact, and implications of the war against Burma's dictatorship.
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