The Burma-Bangladesh borderland? At first sight, this seems to be one of the world’s most marginal places. In the current global power scheme, neither Burma (Myanmar) nor Bangladesh is of much concern. The margins of these […]
Adapted from Song and Silence: Ethnic Revival on China’s Southwest Borders by Sara L. M. Davis. Copyright (c) 2005 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher. The teak pillars that held up […]
Making Enemies: War and State Building in BurmaMary P. Callahan Ithaca, NY / Cornell University Press / 2004 Singapore / Singapore University Press / 2004 Why would anyone, in this age of terror and unfettered global trade, […]
The Glass PalaceAmitav GhoshNew York / Random House / 2002 (paper)London / HarperCollins UK / 2000 (cloth) Booming sounds break into the lives of people at a food stall in Mandalay. Such jarring noise was […]
Aung San: The Locked Away Dream of Burmese IndependenceAung San—Fuuin Sareta Dokuritsu Biruma no YumeNemoto KeiTokyo / Iwanami Syoten / 1996 Myanmar’s Village Economy in Transition: Peasants’ Lives under the Market-Oriented EconomyGendai Myanmaa no Nooson […]
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