N. Ganesan and Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Myanmar: State, Society and Ethincity, Insitute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and Hiroshima Peace Institue Japan, US $24.99.... Scholars provide little more than table scraps in a new academic collection o?n Burma... "It is a mark of modern academia, more than the state of Burma, that many scholarly collected works o?n the country are about as substantial as a glass of ye-sa (water boiled with rice), and not the full, lavish feast of erudition that the country should be able to produce. N. Ganesan and Kyaw Yin Hlaing?s new edited collection, Myanmar: State, Society and Ethnicity, lamentably joins this parsimonious table. It gives basic nourishment but fails to excite the intellectual senses,. The product of workshops at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in 2005, these collected papers, with some notable and commendable exceptions, join a stack of edited volumes that promise insight but deliver the same tired arguments, borrowed research and bland summations..."