Author: Burma. Information and Broadcasting DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Introducing Burma
Author: Burma. Information and Broadcasting DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Introducing Burma
Author: Burma. Information and Broadcasting DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Introducing Burma
Author: Burma. Ministry of InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Folk-tales of Burma
Author: Gerry AbbottPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900439205X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This handbook is the first in-depth overview of the fascinating world of Burmese folk-tales. Part one provides a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary survey of folk-tale studies, together with a broad functional classification of Burma’s tales. Part two presents, mostly for the first time in a European language, the categorized actual tales themselves. With commentaries on plots and cross-cultural motifs - past and present. With index, substantial bibliography, and suggestions for further research.
Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma
Author: RalphPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
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.
Burma/Myanmar
Author: David SteinbergPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199981701
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in so short a time as Myanmar. Until recently, the former British colony had one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, a country where Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was held in continual house arrest and human rights were denied to nearly all. Yet events in Myanmar since the elections of November 2010 have profoundly altered the internal mood of the society, and have surprised even Burmese and seasoned foreign observers of the Myanmar scene. The pessimism that pervaded the society prior to the elections, and the results of that voting that prompted many foreign observers to call them a "sham" or "fraud," gradually gave way to the realization that positive change was in the air. In this updated second edition of Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Davd I. Steinberg addresses the dramatic changes in the country over the past two years, including the establishment of a human rights commission, the release of political prisoners, and reforms in health and education. More than ever, the history, culture, and internal politics of this country are crucial to understanding the current transformation, which has generated headlines across the globe. Geographically strategic, Burma/Myanmar lies between the growing powers of China and India. Yet it is mostly unknown to Westerners despite being its thousand-year history as a nation. Burma/Myanmar is a place of contradictions: a picturesque land with mountain jungles and monsoon plains, it is one of the world's largest producers of heroin. Though it has extensive natural resources including oil, gas, teak, metals, and minerals, it is one of the poorest countries in the world. And despite a half-century of military-dominated rule, change is beginning to work its way through the beleaguered nation, as it moves to a more pluralistic administrative system reflecting its pluralistic cultural and multi-ethnic base. Authoritative and balanced, Burma/Myanmar is an essential book on a country in the throes of historic change. What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
A Drop of Rain in Asia: A Brief Introduction to Traditional Burmese Medicine
Author: U Win KoPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 129150026X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
This booklet by Dr. U Win Ko provides a brief introduction to the traditional medical systems of Myanmar (formerly Burma), which are called 'Traditional Myanmar Medicine' (TMM). U Kyaw Than Win, also known as Dr. U Win Ko in academic circles, graduated from the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Myanmar in 1980. He is now head of the acupuncture unit at the Watchet Jivitadana Hospital and is vice-chair of the Myanmar Traditional Medicine Practitioners Association, Mandalay region. The topics covered in this publication include: a brief history of medicine in Myanmar; a description of four systems of traditional medicine; the system of five elements; herbal treatments; massage; the use of hot compresses; and an overview of the organizations providing traditional medical treatment in Myanmar.
Pagan
Author: Michael A. Aung-ThwinPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824880080
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Pagan: The Origin of Modern Burma offers major contributions in three areas: the manner in which it integrates original, indigenous source material with social science theory; the significant association it makes between religion and the economy of redistribution; and the model it provides for the rise and decline of a major Buddhist kingdom in Southeast Asia. This is an important book for Southeast Asia scholars and Burma specialists. It will be standard reference work for historians, social scientists, and philologists with an interest in Southeast Asia. Readers interested in general issues of church and state, religion and society, as well as those more specifically concerned with historic and institutional Buddhism will find it a valuable work.
Introducing Burma
Author: A History of Modern Burma
Author: Michael W. CharneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316342492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, was denied her victory. She has been under house-arrest ever since. Now an economic satellite and political dependent of the People's Republic of China, Burma is at a crossroads. Will it become another North Korea, will it succumb to China's political embrace or will the people prevail? Michael Charney's book- the first general history of modern Burma in over five decades - traces the highs and lows of Burma's history from its colonial past to the devastation of Cyclone Nargis in 2008. By exploring key themes such as the political division between lowland and highland Burma and monastic opposition to state control, the author explains the forces that have made the country what it is today.