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Book Synopsis Burma My Mother by : Khemawadee Mangrai (Sao)
Download or read book Burma My Mother written by Khemawadee Mangrai (Sao) and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of living through good times and bad in Burma before an escape to a new life of freedom, BURMA MY MOTHER is published in both ebook and pdf formats.Author Sao Khemawadee Mangrai grew up in a Shan state in the north-east of Myanmar, previously known as Burma, and now lives in Sydney. Her memories are infused by the beauty of the country and the grace of the Buddhist culture.She also writes candidly about her life before and after the assassination of the independence leader, General Aung San in 1947.On that sad day, sitting beside the General was a Shan chief, Sao Sam Htun, who was assassinated alongside him, one of a total of nine killed in the attack on the government's Executive Council meeting.Khemawadee had no idea then that she would later marry his son, who would also suffer under the military regime, thrown into prison without cause for 5 years.Her memoir was written during a weekly memoir class held in Surry Hills facilitated by Sydney School of Arts & Humanities.
Download or read book Miss Burma written by Charmaine Craig and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country’s history. Years later, Benny and Khin’s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma’s first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family’s past, the West’s ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. Based on the story of the author’s mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom. “At once beautiful and heartbreaking . . . An incredible family saga.” —Refinery29 “Miss Burma charts both a political history and a deeply personal one—and of those incendiary moments when private and public motivations overlap.” —Los Angeles Times
Author :Sao Khemawadee Mangrai Publisher :Sydney School of Arts and Humanities ISBN 13 :9780994544186 Total Pages :138 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (441 download)
Book Synopsis Burma My Mother by : Sao Khemawadee Mangrai
Download or read book Burma My Mother written by Sao Khemawadee Mangrai and published by Sydney School of Arts and Humanities. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of living through good times and bad in Burma before an escape to a new life of freedom, BURMA MY MOTHER is published by Sydney School of Arts & Humanities. Author Sao Khemawadee Mangrai grew up in a Shan state in the north-east of Myanmar, previously known as Burma, and now lives in Sydney. Her memories are infused by the beauty of the country and the grace of the Buddhist culture. She also writes candidly about her life before and after the assassination of the independence leader, General Aung San in 1947. On that sad day, sitting beside the General was a Shan chief, Sao Sam Htun, who was assassinated alongside him, one of a total of nine killed in the attack on the government's Executive Council meeting. Khemawadee had no idea then that she would later marry his son, who would also suffer under the military regime, thrown into prison without cause for 5 years. Her memoir was written during a weekly memoir class held in Surry Hills facilitated by Sydney School of Arts & Humanities. REVIEWS IN BRIEF "An extraordinary life told with clarity, gentle humour and revealing an inner strength. I couldn't put it down. Very much recommended." Catherine Bloor, English-History Teacher "Khemawadee's memoir is unique among stories of exile from the authoritarian regimes of Burma because she is shown to be a shy and frail figure, one who had to strive hard to stay resilient over her lifetime. Even though hers is a touching story of a young woman surrounded by family, it speaks out for all the Burmese, particularly Shans, whose promising futures were shattered because of the harshness of life under the military rule imposed by the generals. The dark shadow of the past is still lurking behind many families, and scars can still be seen in Biddy's account of her life story." Maung Maung Than, broadcast journalist, BBC World Service. "Sao Khemawadee Mangrai's autobiography, Burma My Mother, can be read at two levels. At the first, it is a straight-forward, detailed and highly personal account of the author's childhood and adult years, interwoven with intimate descriptions of her family members, and their trials and tribulations during a very turbulent period of Burmese history. At another level, the book offers a range of insights into the lives of the Shan elite before and during the Second World War, and under General Ne Win's military rule. Some prior knowledge of Burma helps in fully appreciating the nuances of the author's fascinating story, but even to someone unfamiliar with the country it is an enjoyable and rewarding work that shines a light on a place and a time that have for too long been neglected." Andrew Selth, Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith Asia Institute.
Book Synopsis My Mother was a Woman by : Michael Dingake
Download or read book My Mother was a Woman written by Michael Dingake and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender equality should be top of the agenda of discourse on human affairs. There is no rhyme nor reason for the status of women to be languishing below the male ranking. The ‘weaker sex’ label must cease forthwith. Women are strong, resilient and always unbowed. Moreover, women conceive and populate our world with all the talents the human race celebrates from time to time. Women deserve to be ululated and rewarded. The current status demeans women and denies the human race the chance to scale the heights it has the potential to scale!
Book Synopsis My Mother's Lovers by : Christopher Hope
Download or read book My Mother's Lovers written by Christopher Hope and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kick off your shoes, pour yourself a stiff drink and take your hat off to the elder statesman of southern African words--he’s done it again.” --Alexandra Fuller “Vivid and powerful. Highly recommended.” --Library Journal (starred review) The author of Serenity House and Kruger’s Alp (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Fiction) returns with a lyrical and taut novel about the past fifty years of white presence in South Africa, told through a son’s larger-than-life vision of his mother. In Kathleen Healey, acclaimed novelist Christopher Hope crafts a superbly authentic female character. Aviator, big game hunter, and a knitting devotee who once boxed three rounds with Ernest Hemingway, her multitude of lovers came from all over the world. When she fades with illness, her son must carry out her final wishes, and confront his own ability to love. Bitingly funny and inventive, My Mother’s Lovers is as fierce and radiant as our romance with Africa.
Book Synopsis A Twentieth Century Burmese Matriarch by : Kin Thida Oung
Download or read book A Twentieth Century Burmese Matriarch written by Kin Thida Oung and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Khemawadee Mangrai Publisher :Sydney School of Arts and Humanities ISBN 13 :9780994544117 Total Pages :138 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (441 download)
Book Synopsis Burma My Mother by : Khemawadee Mangrai
Download or read book Burma My Mother written by Khemawadee Mangrai and published by Sydney School of Arts and Humanities. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Burma Spring written by Rena Pederson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning journalist and former State Department speechwriter Rena Pederson brings to light fresh details about the charismatic Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi: the inspiration for Burma’s (now Myanmar) first steps towards democracy. Suu Kyi's party will be a major contender in the 2015 elections, a revolutionary breakthrough after years of military dictatorship. Using exclusive interviews with Suu Kyi since her release from fifteen years of house arrest, as well as recently disclosed diplomatic cables, Pederson uncovers new facets to Suu Kyi’s extraordinary story.The Burma Spring will also surprise readers by revealing the extraordinary steps taken by First Lady Laura Bush to help Suu Kyi, and also how former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton injected new momentum into Burma’s democratic rebirth. Pederson provides a never before seen view of the harrowing hardships the people of Burma have endured and the fiery political atmosphere in which Suu Kyi’s has fought a life-and-death struggle for liberty in this fascinating part of the world.
Book Synopsis My Mother's Branch:The Lineage and Life of Carrie Viola Reeves and Her Family by : Doyle W. Williams
Download or read book My Mother's Branch:The Lineage and Life of Carrie Viola Reeves and Her Family written by Doyle W. Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doyle Williams has written a family history focusing on his mother, Carrie Viola Reeves, her siblings, Emma, Annie, and Charlie, and her parents, James Morgan Reeves and Sarah Frances Spencer. In this story he describes the turmoil that enveloped James Morgan as a small child in Arkansas during the Civil War and how it took his father's life and the lives of five of his siblings. He follows James Morgan as he moves to Texas with his mother, leaving home at age ten to find his own way, and returning to Arkansas to grow up and marry. When his wife, Elizabeth Wolf, dies leaving him with a large family to rear, he returns to Texas, where he finds a new wife in Sarah Frances Spencer. James Morgan and Sarah move to Oklahoma Territory in the early 1890s, make their lives there and rear their own family. The author follows the children of James Morgan and Sarah as they grow up, marry, and eventually care for their aging parents. This is the story of an American pioneering family.
Download or read book Burmese Lives written by Wen-Chin Chang and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches. The constituted stories highlight the protagonists' survival strategies in everyday life that demonstrate their constant courage and frustration in dealing with numerous social injustices and adversities.
Book Synopsis Than Shwe's Burma, 2nd Edition by : Diane Zahler
Download or read book Than Shwe's Burma, 2nd Edition written by Diane Zahler and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Than Shwe was part of a military coup that took over Burma in the 1960s. The British had granted Burma independence in 1948, but the country, with its many ethnic groups, had trouble building a democratic government. Than Shwe rose through the military ranks, and after the army stepped in to quell demonstrations and riots that began on August 8, 1988, he emerged as head of the military council. He became one of the most secretive and repressive leaders in the world. Than Shwe uses Burma’s resources to finance a strong military. To suppress dissent, his soldiers destroy the countryside, sending people into hiding, refugee camps, or slavery. His control has isolated the country from international observers. In 2007, Internet images of monks being beaten during a protest rally reached the rest of the world. This was followed by reports in 2008 of a devastating cyclone, when Than Shwe banned outside aid for weeks. Both events helped to raise global awareness about the human rights abuses suffered by the Burmese people. In Than Shwe’s Burma, learn more about this dictatorship and about Burma’s long struggle to become a free nation.
Book Synopsis Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma by : Ralph
Download or read book Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma written by Ralph and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about commitment to an ideal, individual survival and the universality of the human experience. A memoir of two tenacious souls, it sheds light on why Burma/Myanmar's decades-long pursuit for a peaceful and democratic future has been elusive. Simply put, the aspirations of Burma's ethnic nationalities for self-determination within a genuine federal union runs counter to the idea of a unitary state orchestrated and run by the dominant majority Burmans, or Bamar. This seemingly intractable dilemma of opposing visions for Burma is personified in the story of Saw Ralph and Naw Sheera, two prominent ethnic Karen leaders who lived—and eventually left—"the Longest War," leaving the reader with insights on the cultural, social, and political challenges facing other non-Burman ethnic nationalities. Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is also about the ordinariness and universality of the challenges increasingly faced by diaspora communities around the world today. Saw Ralph and Naw Sheera's day to day lives—how they fell in love, married, had children—while trying to survive in a precarious war zone—and how they had to adapt to their new lives as refugees and immigrants in Australia will resound with many.
Download or read book My Burma written by Sir Ba U and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1958, this is the autobiography of the 2nd Present of Burma, U Ba U, who “rose under British rule to be a judge of the High Court of Judicature in Burma and, among the Burmese judges in the latest days of British rule, he was the only one to have received the dignity of knighthood. “When Burma attained independence, he became, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the most authoritative guardian and guarantee for all the rights, inherited from British liberal traditions, which were conferred on the people under the Constitution and by law. Finally, by the unanimous vote of both Chambers of the Parliament in Joint Session, he was elected President of the Union, with precedence over all other persons throughout the Union, a position to which he has added further distinction by his judicious exercise of the powers and functions thereby conferred on him. [...] One feature of his character which the story of his life reveals is a quiet determination to do his duty as he sees it, and this feature is further illustrated by the writing of this book. In view of the changes in Burma during his lifetime, in which he has personally taken no small part, such a record must necessarily be of historical importance. And the book must also find a place in the history of Burmese literature as almost the first essay by a Burman in the difficult art of autobiography.”
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Burma Research Society by : Burma Research Society
Download or read book The Journal of the Burma Research Society written by Burma Research Society and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Romancing Human Rights by : Tamara C. Ho
Download or read book Romancing Human Rights written by Tamara C. Ho and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the world thinks of Burma, it is often in relation to Nobel laureate and icon Aung San Suu Kyi. But beyond her is another world, one that complicates the overdetermination of Burma as a pariah state and myths about the “high status” of Southeast Asian women. Highlighting and critiquing this fraught terrain, Tamara C. Ho’s Romancing Human Rights maps “Burmese women” as real and imagined figures across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. More than a recitation of “on the ground” facts, Ho’s groundbreaking scholarship—the first monograph to examine Anglophone literature and dynamics of gender and race in relation to Burma—brings a critical lens to contemporary literature, film, and politics through the use of an innovative feminist/queer methodology. She crosses intellectual boundaries to illustrate how literary and gender analysis can contribute to discourses surrounding and informing human rights—and in the process offers a new voice in the debates about representation, racialization, migration, and spirituality. Romancing Human Rights demonstrates how Burmese women break out of prisons, both real and discursive, by writing themselves into being. Ho assembles an eclectic archive that includes George Orwell, Aung San Suu Kyi, critically acclaimed authors Ma Ma Lay and Wendy Law-Yone, and activist Zoya Phan. Her close readings of literature and politicized performances by women in Burma, the Burmese diaspora, and the United States illuminate their contributions as authors, cultural mediators, and practitioner-citizens. Using flexible, polyglot rhetorical tactics and embodied performances, these authors creatively articulate alter/native epistemologies—regionally situated knowledges and decolonizing viewpoints that interrogate and destabilize competing transnational hegemonies, such as U.S. moral imperialism and Asian militarized dictatorship. Weaving together the fictional and non-fictional, Ho’s gendered analysis makes Romancing Human Rights a unique cultural studies project that bridges postcolonial studies, area studies, and critical race/ethnic studies—a must-read for those with an interest in fields of literature, Asian and Asian American studies, history, politics, religion, and women’s and gender studies.
Book Synopsis Thailand's Hidden Workforce by : Doctor Ruth Pearson
Download or read book Thailand's Hidden Workforce written by Doctor Ruth Pearson and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Burmese women migrate into Thailand each year to form the basis of the Thai agricultural and manufacturing workforce. Un-documented and unregulated, this army of migrant workers constitutes the ultimate 'disposable' labour force, enduring gruelling working conditions and much aggression from the Thai police and immigration authorities. This insightful book ventures into a part of the global economy rarely witnessed by Western observers. Based on unique empirical research, it provides the reader with a gendered account of the role of women migrant workers in Thailand's factories and interrogates the ways in which they manage their families and their futures.
Download or read book Mandalay written by MiMi Aye and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influenced by its neighbours and the countries closest to it, Burmese food draws techniques and ingredients from Thailand, India and China but uses flavours of its own to make something subtle, delicious and unique. The food of Burma is little known, but MiMi seeks to change that within these pages, revealing its secrets and providing context to each recipe with stories from her time in Burma and her family's heritage. Beginning with a look at the ingredients that makes Burmese food unique – as well as suitable alternatives – MiMi goes on to discuss the special techniques and equipment needed before delving into chapters such as fritters, rice and noodles, salads, meat and fish and sweet snacks. Within these pages you'll find 100 incredible recipes, enabling you to create a taste of Burma in your own kitchen.
