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Description: "This list is intended for discussion related to research on Burma/Myanmar. We do not include political discussions per se, only insofar as they relate to the state of research in the field. You must be signed in and a member of this group to read its archive."
Source/publisher: SOAS
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: The biggest searchable Burma archive on the Internet, I would think - probably more than 100,000 items. One can also link to individual articles, since each has a unique address. From September 1995 to early 2014
Source/publisher: Maykha
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English and Burmese
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Description: Background Biographies; Bomb Blasts in Burma—A Chronology; Burma Diplomatic Missions; Burma?s Regional Commanders; CCB forms Investigation Body to investigate money laundering offenses; Cabinet of Burma; Chronology of Burma?s Laws Restricting Freedom of Opinion, Expression and the Press; Chronology of Chinese-Burmese Relations; Chronology of the Press in Burma; Committee Representing the People?s Parliament [CRPP]; Dialogue between Military Government and NLD; Diplomatic Trips; Foreign Companies Withdrawn from Burma; Foreign Embassies to Burma; Foreign Investment in Burma; Full List of the Prisoners - Page1; List of Cease-fire Agreements with the Junta; List of Journalists, Authors and Poets Who Received Sentences After 1988; List of the Prisoners (Authors); List of the Prisoners (Death in Custody).
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Research Pages
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Links to profiles of academic experts, institutions, directories etc. specialising on Asia, including Burma/Myanmar
Source/publisher: Accessasia
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: SEARCH FO9R "BURMA"....Databases, documentation on Asia and Europe-Asia relations. Magazines from the South. Access to books and articles in the Asiahouse library and sales of German-language books on Burma in the online bookstore... Zentrum für Information und Begegnung. Datenbankrecherche zu Büchern und Aufsätzen zu Burma in der Asienhausbibliothek und Angebot aller deutschsprachigen Titel im Online-Buchladen des Asienhauses. There?s also an unmoderated Discussion-group
Source/publisher: Asien House
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Deutsch, German
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Description: 35 hits for "Burma OR Myanmar", most of which were abstracts of papers delivered at the AAAS meetings. Good for subscription forms for membership and publications, but no full-text documents on site so far as I could see (Alril 2008). $75 individual annual subscription for the online Bibliography of Asian Studies...Many dead links
Source/publisher: Association for Asian Studies
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-16
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: ASEASUK is the only national organisation of Southeast Asianists in the UK - and the only such national organisation in Europe. Most members are academics specialising in the region from more than 30 universities and covering a range of disciplines. But there are also postgraduate members of the association as well as members from the business and diplomatic communities. A third of members are based outside the UK. ASEASUK publishes a newsletter, ASEASUK NEWS, twice a year. Aseasuk News contains information on regional research, conferences, seminars, exhibitions, recent publications of members and an annual directory of postgraduates. Aseasuk News has close links with the European Newsletter of Southeast Asian Studies (Enseas) to which it contributes information on UK Southeast Asianists. It also supplies information for the Leiden-based IIAS Newsletter. Aseasuk News is also distributed to relevant institutions in Britain, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia and New Zealand.
Source/publisher: Association of Southeast Asian Studies
Date of entry/update: 2003-11-06
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Especially good for book reviews, links to book and academic websites, and its descriptions of each site.
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: "The Burma [Myanmar] collections consist of approximately 1000 manuscripts from Burma, mostly in Burmese or Pali written in Burmese script, but with a few in Shan, Karen, Kachin, Chin and Mon. The majority of the manuscripts are written on palm leaf, but there are also many paper folding books (parabaik), and texts written on materials such as gold, silver, copper and ivory sheets in the shape of palm leaves. The manuscript collection is particularly strong in historical, legal and grammatical texts and in illustrated materials. The John Murray collection includes several manuscripts from Arakan dating from the 1740s. The collection also includes about 15,000 printed books from Burma, including examples of early Burmese printing and many rare early editions. About 100 periodical titles are held. The printed collection is strongest in works published between 1870 and 1940. More recently a collection of books, serials and ephemera relating to the Pro-Democracy Movement in Burma has also been acquired (requests to use this restricted collection should be made in writing to the Curator)..."
Source/publisher: British Library
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-16
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Language: English
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Description: 4742 hits for "Burma OR Myanmar" (Advanced Search by subject, November 2001). Search by subject (=keyword), title, author/editor, date of publication, ISBN/ISSN, publisher details and organisation. This search displayed its results in batches of 20 in a mysterious order (date of accession?), with no apparent means to sort by date of publication, relevance or alphabetically by author or title. One can, however, specify a year.
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-16
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Description: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... FOREWORD... INTRODUCTION: Burma bibliographies before 1988; Burma bibliographies since 1988; Content and methodology... THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE: General; Photography... GUIDEBOOKS AND DESCRIPTIONS: General; Rangoon (Yangon) and Mandalay; Pagan (Bagan); Naypyidaw (Nay Pyi Taw)... TRAVELLERS? ACCOUNTS: General; Pre-20th century; 20th and 21st century... HISTORY: General; Pre-20th century; 20th and 21st century; Second World War... AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS: Colonial era; Post-independence period; Aung San Suu Kyi... POPULATION AND ETHNIC MINORITIES: Population; Ethnic minorities... RELIGIONS, RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES AND RELIGIOUS SITES... SOCIETY AND HEALTH... WOMEN... MIGRANTS, REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PEOPLE... NARCOTICS... POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT: Official publications; General; Political change and transition studies... HUMAN RIGHTS: INTERNATIONAL AID... FOREIGN RELATIONS... DEFENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY... LAW AND CONSTITUTIONS... ECONOMY, INDUSTRY AND TRADE... AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES... ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL HISTORY... LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: Language; Literature... CULTURE, ARTS AND CRAFTS... RECREATION AND HOBBIES... CUISINE... BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND RESEARCH GUIDES... APPENDIX: Books to read before visiting Burma... INDEX OF NAMES
Creator/author: Andrew Selth
Source/publisher: Griffith Asia Institute
2012-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2012-10-08
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Preface to the Third Edition: "Since the first version of this bibliography was released in 2012, the outpouring of books, reports and other publications about Burma (Myanmar) that was noted in earlier editions has continued. Indeed, over the past few years it seems to have picked up in both pace and range, although not always in quality. As one observer bluntly put it a few years ago, ?There is a vast quantity of literature on Burma/Myanmar, some of it quite unreadable?. While many of these works have been posted online, and are only available in soft copy, most have been released in hard copy, and in English. Even if the print run was quite small, this has entitled them to a mention in this third and expanded edition. The newest works fall into a number of categories, which can easily be identified by comparing the contents pages above with those of earlier editions. Broadly speaking, they cover academic works, official reports, travelogues and tourist guides, books for the general reader, and older works that have been reprinted to meet a popular demand..."
Creator/author: Andrew Selth
Source/publisher: Griffith Asia Institute
2018-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2018-07-30
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Description: Burma Archives Project "In the early morning on the day of my house arrest [July 20 1989], a hundred or so armed military personnel surrounded my house. Why they didn?t immediately enter the compound I don?t know, but those extra hours gave my wife and other family members the time to tear up and flush down the toilet every NLD document, letter and address that was in my office." Early summer ?98 a group of Burma related librarians, scholars, journalists and activists, together with IISH? Asia Department launched the Burma Archives Project. The Burma Archives Project exists to support and actively encourage the compilation, collection and safe preservation of documentation -in written and audiovisual form - particularly, but not exclusively, of material on Burma deriving from the 1980s onwards. A coordinated effort is needed to seek out material such as posters, photographs, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, political and ethnic groups? records. The creation of archives that preserve what has been called the ?collective memory of development? - material documenting social movements and social transformation, minority peoples and other subjects relevant to civil society - is essential to Burma?s future development. The International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam offers a safe archival repository for the preservation of such material. Members of the Burma Archives Project (academics, librarians, and independent scholars and researchers) are concerned to use their contacts and expertise to help locate material and to ensure, on behalf of the individual or group from which it emanates, that it is safeguarded. It is planned that, as material accumulates, archival and conservation training and assistance can be given to those from whom the material originates, and that research, documentation and publication projects will develop. The Burma Archives Newsletter is designed to keep BAP members in touch with latest developments and to become a forum for the exchange of ideas and reports on progress. For more information, please contact the Asia Department at [email protected]
Source/publisher: International Institute for Social History, Amsterdaam
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-16
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: In 1974, the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg (SAI) was able to buy the Burma Collection of Professor Frank N. Trager, New York. Many of the items in this collection are listed in his own bibliography on Burma. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft sponsored the acquisition of this collection on condition that it be catalogued in order to make it available to the scientific community and for foreign loan. Over the years the catalogue of the Trager collection grew into a complete bibliography on Burma/Myanmar.
Source/publisher: University of Heidelberg
2012-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-06-27
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Deutsch, German
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Description: Bibligraphic Guides Collections and New Acquisitions Electronic Resources Bibliographic Guides Southeast Asia Studies at Berkeley Burma/Myanmar Reference Sources 120 Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley Compiled by Virginia Jing-yi Shih With Significant Assistance of Leslie W
Creator/author: Virginia Jing-yi Shih
Source/publisher: University of California, Berkeley
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: The Cornell Burma/Myanmar Research Group (CMRG) was formed in 2003 by several Cornell graduate students and faculty as an interdisciplinary association to promote Burma/Myanmar studies and related research at Cornell University. The CMRG website contains links to useful information on Burma/Myanmar studies and research resources at Cornell and elsewhere... * cornell university burma/myanmar studies; * other research centers and institutes; * archives, libraries, and catalogs; * language and fonts; * dictionaries; * radio and music; * burma/myanmar news media; * regional news media; * publishers and book vendors; * varia; * cornell burma/myanmar research group mailing list.
Creator/author: Christian Lammerts
Source/publisher: Cornell University
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-16
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Burmese
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Description: A look back at a 70-page supplement on Burma—covering arts, culture, politics, and more—written mostly by Burmese and published by The Atlantic in 1958.... Burma An introduction by The Honorable U Kyaw Nyein, Deputy Prime Minister of the Union of Burma... Building a Nation Goals for the future by The Honorable U Thant... Burma's Socialist Democracy Some problems of practical politics by U Law Yone... Continuity in Burma The survival of historic forces by U Kyaw Thet... People of the Golden Land Burmese character and customs by Daw Mi Mi Khaing... Burmese Names A guide by Daw Mi Mi Khaing... The Public Weal Excerpts from speeches by the honorable U Nu, Prime Minister of the Union of Burma by Daw Mi Mi Khaing... The Women of Burma A tradition of hard work and independence by Daw Mya Sein... Burmese Music A partnership in melodic sounds by U Khin Zaw... Burmese Entertainment Drama, dance, and film by U Myo Min... The Early Art of Burma Surviving traditions from pagan and Mandalay by Thaw Ka... Contemporary Burmese Art A modern perspective by U Thein Han... Burma's Economy An eye toward growth by U Tun Thin... Indians and Chinese in Burma Notes on immigration by U Myay Kyaw... Modern Burmese Literature Its background in the independence movement by U On Pe... The Burmese Language An overview by U Wun... The Meaning of Buddhism Fundamental principles of the Theravada doctrine by Bhikkhu U Thittila... Folk Elements in Burmese Buddhism Alchemy, spirits, and ancient rituals by Maung Htin Aung... The Concept of Neutralism What lies behind Burma's foreign policy by James Barrington... The Concept of Neutralism What lies behind Burma's foreign policy by James Barrington... The 13-Carat Diamond A story by Daw Khin Myo Chit... The Prince of the Prison A story by Dagon Shwe Hmyar.
Source/publisher: The Atlantic
1958-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2008-11-12
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: links, resources
Source/publisher: SOAS
Date of entry/update: 2010-10-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: 4238 hits for "Burma OR Myanmar" - English (November 2001). "Networked Resources" contain a few open-access Burma resources, including OBL, but mostly e-books requiring institutional or individual subscriptions.
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: The Burma holdings of this digital library cover the period when Burma was part of British India... Major texts (fully searchable) are the "Statistical abstract relating to British India" 1840-1920 in digital book and Excel spreadsheet form and "The Imperial Gazetteer of India" (1909 edition, 24 volumes, each of more than 400 pages)... Reference Resources: Scholarly reference books and a link to full text dictionaries at Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA)... Bibliographies and Union Lists: Electronic catalogs and finding aids for dispersed resources and collections... Images: Photographs are arranged in databases organized by the original collections... Indexes: Includes periodical indexes and document delivery mechanisms... Maps: Catalogs of maps and maps themselves, ranging from historical to topographic... Books and Journals: This section includes pedagogical books, general scholarly titles, journals and newspapers... Statistics: Statistical information from the colonial period through the present, available in a variety of formats... Other Internet Resources: A link to SARAI, South Asia Resource Access on the Internet.
Source/publisher: DSAL, (University of Chicago)
Date of entry/update: 2005-05-03
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Language: English
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Description: GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, LOCAL CONCEPTIONS: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE POLITICS OF COMMUNICATION AMONG THE BURMESE OPPOSITION-IN-EXILE (MYANMAR): Brooten, Lisa Booth, Ohio University, 2003... SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BURMA AND THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY, 1634-1680, Wil O. Dijk, Leiden University, 2004... DISPLACEMENT & IDENTITY: KARENNI REFUGEES IN THAILAND, Sandra Dudley University of Oxford, 2000...
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 2004
2004-09-20
Date of entry/update: 2004-09-25
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: About 66,000,000 results (0.33 seconds)
Source/publisher: "Google Search"
2020-06-06
Date of entry/update: 2020-06-06
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Description: "This database contains raw data that we were allowed to record by the holders in Myanmar, and as a result it has not been sorted according to subject. We aimed to select Parabaik relevant to socio-economic history, but documents relating to astrology, medicine, poetry and so on are to be found, because one Parabaik was customarily used to record material on many different topics. 1. Each image consists of two facing pages of a Parabaik manuscript. Therefore, one image may contain several documents, while one longer document may consist of several images. 2. Since images are taken after turning each page in the Parabaik, a particular document may be identified in its context by viewing the images numbered before and after it. 3. In some cases the same image appears twice in order to facilitate detailed comparison of its contents. 4. Some images are reversed and others are revised to make them easier to read. Images that are still difficult to decipher should be adjusted using imaging software. 5. The documents are classified according to their contents. Users can search for documents in the index of these categories..."
Source/publisher: Aichi University in Japan
Date of entry/update: 2005-03-16
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Burmese, English
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Description: Search for "Burma" or "Myanmar"
Source/publisher: East-West Center
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: "eTekkatho is a digital library especially designed for the academic community in Myanmar. The library is delivered over a very low bandwidth website and is also available over local area networks at partner institutions in Myanmar. The project is not-for-profit and access to the library is free. Anyone can use the library and no registration is required......SUBJECTS: "Earth sciences... Environment... Human geography... Physical geography... Research tools and methods... South East Asia and related country studies... Supporting subjects... Computing and IT... English language... Mathematics
Source/publisher: University of Manchester
Date of entry/update: 2013-11-19
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English (Burmese?)
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Description: Updated July 2006... "This guide provides examples of the types of resources that will eventually be included in the RSC portal, or Forced Migration Online. It is not an exhaustive inventory..." Contents: I. Purpose; II. Background and Overviews; - Starting Points: - Introduction to the Issues/Definitions of Key Terms; - Country Profiles; III. Finding Out about Research: - Research Collections; - Directories; - Indexes/Journal Contents Search Services; - Bibliographic Tools: Bibliographies, Library Catalogues; - Alerting Services; - Lists. IV. Information Sources (full-text): - News; - Journals/Newsletters; - Annual Reports/Yearbooks; - International Instruments: Specific Titles, Collections; - Policy Statements; - Operational Resources: Operational Guidance Materials, Principles of Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict ;Management - Evaluation Reports. V. Non-Textual Information Sources: - Statistics/Datasets; - Multimedia; VI. Internet Search Tools: - Subject Guides; - Search Engines.
Source/publisher: Forced Migration Online, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: More than 4000 results for "Burma OR Myanmar"
Source/publisher: Harvard University Library
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship: Mission Statement ▽ "The Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship — လှတျလပျသော မွနျမာ့ သုတသေန ဂြာနယျ — is a new, open access, digital journal of humanities (history and literary criticism) and social sciences. It aims at fostering the development of vigorous, critical, and independent research of the highest quality on Burma by scholars both in Burma and abroad. The Journal will be published in Burmese, with full text or summary translations in a second language (i.e., one of the major languages of world scholarship or one of the non-Burman written languages of Burma). The editors hope to promote scholarly excellence by a system of peer review, editorial advice, and by supplying authors with digital copies of related research not easily otherwise available to them. We envision publishing bi-annually, often on particular themes selected by the editors and announced in advance. We encourage submissions by young scholars and aspiring amateurs as well as established academics. All authors? work will be held in the strictest confidence by the editors and their identities will be protected under a pen name if they so wish. We hope that the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship will help both create and display the fruits of a growing, independent, and assertive scholarly community."....August 2016 Volume 1, no. 1 - ?Special Issue on Poverty”
Source/publisher: Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship
2016-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-09-28
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: Search for Burma OR Myanmar... Some full text documents
Source/publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Myanmar catalogue.
Source/publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Website)
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Highly recommended. Well-organised site. In "list of sources used" are most of the main reports from 1995 bearing on IDPs (though the reports from 1995 to 1997 are missing - temporarily, one hopes) and more Burma pages updated June 2001. Go to the home page for links on IDPs, including the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
Source/publisher: IDMC
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: This Netherlands-based institute is the European home of the Southeast Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, which includes Burma-related Studies, at http://www.iias.nl/wwwvl/southeas/MM_Asias.html The Institute's main focus is on parts of Asia with a strong Netherlands connection, i.e. former Dutch colonies, particularly Indonesia. It has a very good online newsletter, with several articles on Burma, notably in "Burmese Heritage" (Issue 25, October 2001).
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Source/publisher: International Institute for Asian Studies
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Issue 25 of the Institute's newsletter contains a section called "Burmese Heritage", a collection of short papers on Burma. In addition to an introduction and interview with the Guest Editor, Stephan van Galen, the titles are: Rediscovering Arakan" by Jacques P. Leider; "Pagan and Early Burma" by Tilman Frasch; "The Cult of the Thirty-Seven Lords" by Benedicte Brac de la Perriere; "Historical Geography of Burma" by Janice Stargardt; "Pre-colonial Burmese Law: Conical hat and shoulder bag" by Andrew Huxley; and "Burmese Language Studies in France" by Marie-Helene Cardinaud.
Source/publisher: International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden)
2001-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: "Burma. IISH is developing as a depository of material on the social history of Burma (Myanmar). It has begun collecting published and unpublished material on social life, political parties, regional movements and civil organisations in the country, as well as material on diaspora groups. It is also collecting material on the various human rights and pro-democracy campaigns concerning the country which have been developing from the late 1980s".
Source/publisher: International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-16
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Language: English
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Description: "The Journal of Burma Studies was established in March 1996 through a joint decision by the Southeast Asia Publications program of NIU?s Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Burma Studies Foundation, NIU?s Center for Burma Studies, and the Burma Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies. Two issues appeared in 1997, and since then, the journal has been published annually". Full text articles accessible online (Vols 1-10) plus abstracts of Vols 11 & 12.
Source/publisher: Center for Burma Studies, Northern Illinois University (NIU)
Date of entry/update: 2010-11-16
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Language: English
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Description: Search for Burma OR Myanmar... 4071 results in November 2001; 10,000 in April 2008... 2458 in July 2012
Source/publisher: Library of Congress
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Advanced search -- search for Burma OR Myanmar etc.
Source/publisher: London School of Economics
Date of entry/update: 2010-04-03
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Language: English
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Description: "The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution dedicated to informing and strengthening policy in the Asia-Pacific..."
Source/publisher: National Bureau of Asian Research
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: "This site provides descriptions of the National Library of Australia's collection of Burmese materials and will progressively provide links to world-wide Burmese-related sources and resource." Burmese Newspapers; Accessing the Burmese Collection/Who to Contact; Burmese Literature - by Author (in Burmese); Burmese Literature - by Title (in Burmese); Luce Collection; Burma WWW Virtual Library; Online Burma/Myanmar Library; Burma Digital Library Pilot.
Source/publisher: National Library of Australia
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: "Government Documents relating to pre- and post-Independence South Asia"..2416 results for "Burma"..."The Official Publications were most often defined by enumeration of holdings at the British Library's two major collections -- the Oriental and India Office Collections (formerly the India Office Library and Records) and the Official Publications Section of the former British Museum, now integrated into Social Policy Information Service at the British Library -- rather than by abstract statements of principle. Some titles were included under the rubric of "Official" even though they were not published by a government body, apparently because they supported the work of governance in the South Asian subcontinent..."
Source/publisher: University of Chicago
Date of entry/update: 2008-04-17
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Language: English
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Description: "Ce dossier n'a pas pour objet de faire un point general sur l'etat des recherches sur la Birmanie (Union du Myanmar). Une excellente synthese, qui depasse en outre le cadre francais, a recemment ete proposee par Pierre Pichard et Francois Robinne en introduction au volume Etudes birmanes en hommage a Denise Bernot (Paris : Presses de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient, 1998). Ce volume comporte egalement une bibliographie indicative des ouvrages et articles concernant la Birmanie parus entre 1985 et 1998..." Denise Bernot (linguistique, Professeur emerite) | Benedicte Brac de la Perriere (ethnologie, CNRS) | Anne-Cecile Brajon (etudes indiennes, Universite Paris III) | Michel Bruneau (geographie, CNRS) | Aurore candier (histoire, EPHE) | Marie-Helene Cardinaud (birman, Inalco) | Anne-May Chew (histoire de l'art/archeologie, Paris III) | Cristina Cramerotti (conservateur, Inalco) | Karine Delaye (histoire, EHESS) | Alexandra de Mersan (ethnologie, EHESS) | William Lang Dessaint (ethnologie, Professeur) | Emmanuel Guillon (etudes mones, Inalco) | Jacques Ivanoff (ethnologie, CNRS) | Jacques Leider (histoire, Inalco) | Francois L'Homer (birman, Inalco) | Helene Nut (histoire, Inalco) | Sylvie Paquet (histoire, CNRS) | Pierre Pichard (EFEO) | William Pruitt (linguistique/sciences religieuses, Pali Text Society) | Catherine Raymond (histoire de l'art/archeologie, Inalco) | Francois Robinne (CNRS) | Guillaume Rozenberg (ethnologie, EHESS) | Alice Vittrant (sciences du langage, Paris VIII) | Marie Yin Yin Myint (birman, Inalco)
Creator/author: Guillaume Rozenberg
Source/publisher: L'Association francaise pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est (AFRASE) - Dossier (lettre no. 53, mars 2001)
2001-03-00
Date of entry/update: 2005-05-24
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Francais, French
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Description: "A Title VI-funded project, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources. Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences, the PAIR Project is supported by an impressive complement of area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University..."
Source/publisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: NOT ACCESSIBLE, APRIL 2008. INQUIRIES AFOOT...Contents: Research collections on Microfilm and Microfiche; Printed material; Journals. "In the 1960's the Monash University Library purchased a large collection of microfilmed India Office Burma-related research material . Most of this material concerns the British goverment in Burma, and in particular, the period when British Burma was ruled as a province of India. Further major purchases of research material relating to post-independence Burma have been made, such as the large collection, Burma 1950-1990 - Newspaper clippings, listed below..."
Source/publisher: Monash University Library
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: Gerry Abbott: Rod(g)ers: A Brief Addendum... Yang Li: The House of Yang: Guardians of an Unknown Frontier (William Clarence Smith)... Monique Skidmore: Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (Alicia Turner)... Emma Larkin, Secret Histories: Finding Orwell in a Burmese Teashop (Atsuko Naono)... Russ Christensen & Sann Kyaw, The Pa-O: Rebels and Refugees (Gerry Abbott)
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 4.2 (Autumn 2006)
2006-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-10-03
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Description: Format: Electronic PDF, with a limited number of hard copies for deposit in libraries Issues: twice yearly. Spring Issue, March 20th, Autumn Issue, September 20th... Deadlines for submissions: March 5th (Spring), September 1st (Autumn)
Creator/author: Michael W. Charney (General Editor)
Source/publisher: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Date of entry/update: 2010-10-03
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Description: 1093 results from a search for "Burma" ... About SAUC The South Asia Union Catalogue is a cap-stone program gathering existing bibliographic records and combining them with new cataloguing created under current projects to create a definitive statement on publishing in the South Asian subcontinent. The South Asia Union Catalogue intends to become an historical bibliography comprehensively describing books and periodicals published in South Asia from 1556 through the present. In addition, it will become a union catalogue in which libraries throughout the world owning copies of those imprints will register their holdings. Scholars of South Asia in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world will be given free access to the historical bibliography and the holdings information through the on-line South Asia Union Catalogue. The four phases of the South Asia Union Catalogue program are defined by the regions of book production. Phase I encompasses south India and Sri Lanka. Publications in the Dravidian languages plus Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language, predominate. Phase II covers eastern South Asia and colonial Burma. Most publications are in eastern Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, and Austro-Asiatic languages. Phase III covers north central South Asia, including Nepal. The majority of publications are central Indo-Aryan and the most frequently occurring languages of imprints are Nepali, Marathi, Gujarati, and Hindi with its dialects. Phase IV ranges over western South Asia and includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northwestern India. Languages of the region include several from the western and eastern Indo-Iranian and western Indo-Aryan families. Most of those languages use the Perso-Arabic script. Much of the bibliographic data currently included has been provided by the Library of Congress, the South Asia Microform Project at the Center for Research Libraries, the Roja Muthiah Research Library, and the University of Chicago Library's Southern Asia Department. Specimen entries for the South Asia Union Catalogue demonstrate the use of South Asian regional scripts in bibliographic and authority records. The Sahitya Akademi (New Delhi, India) undertook a pilot project in 1993 for a Catalogue of Nineteenth-Century Indian Publications. Mr. K. C. Dutt's report on that project includes information that was critically important in planning the South Asia Union Catalogue. The South Asia Union Catalogue is closely affiliated with the Digital South Asia Library and the Center for South Asia Libraries.
Source/publisher: University of Chicago
Date of entry/update: 2008-04-17
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Description: "The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL) exists to provide educators and their students, as well as scholars and members of the general public, with a wide variety of materials published or otherwise produced in Southeast Asia. Drawn largely from the collections of universities and individual scholars in this region, the SEADL contains digital facsimiles of books and manuscripts, as well as multimedia materials and searchable indexes of additional Southeast Asian resources. Nations represented in the collection include Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam."...Click on the top bar for the Myanmar section
Source/publisher: Northern Illinois University
Date of entry/update: 2012-07-29
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Burmese
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Description: * Bulletin [2001-2005] * Bulletin Board * Seminars * Publications * Back Issues Thai-Yunnan Newsletter The Bulletin was launched in 2001. The Thai-Yunnan Newsletter ceased publication in 1995. Current issues of the Bulletin plus archive of the 28 issues of the Newsletter from June 1988 to March 1995. They contain a fair amount of scholarly articles and correspondance on Burma.
Source/publisher: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
Date of entry/update: 2010-07-08
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Description: "It is with great pride that we present this, the first issue of the Journal of Burmese Scholarship (Thi saq myin hnan) to public intellectuals and scholars of Burma. We hope, with this and the issues to come, to make a significant contribution to the many admirable efforts now underway in Myanmar to create a vibrant, daring, and critical public sphere of the highest standards. The formula that we begin with is designed to foster a long- lasting intellectual community and civil debate around critical themes of central concern to Myanmar’s public life and future development. Each issue of the Journal is the culmination of one or more thematic workshops bringing together scholars, journalists, novelists, poets, scientists, and public intellectuals who have had something original and important to say on the topic. At a workshop, these participants present their work to one another, absorb what the other participants have to say through discussion and debate and then revise their own work accordingly. The result, in Burmese and in English, is then edited and published, both digitally and physically. It is especially fitting, then, that our first thematic issue is devoted to poverty in Myanmar, its sources, its extent and, above all, the lived experience of poverty among ordinary citizens. It is our intention to let the light come in from any and all intellectual windows: the arts, fiction, verse, lyrics, social science, economics, anthropology, history, memoirs. Our premise is that no discipline or specialty has a monopoly on truth or insight and that the more carefully crafted perspectives we can accommodate the more light we will shed. Among the other themes/workshops either underway or contemplated are: 1. Intellectuals, Technocrats and Rulers 2. Military Memoirs and Burmese History 3. Popular History from Below and Marginality 4. The Development of Burmese Arts and Letters 1930-2010 5.Student Activism: Aspirations, Representation and Prospects from Colonialism to the ”Opening.” 6. Federalism, Ethnic Identity, and Nationalism 7. History of Prisons and Prison Literature from the Colonial Period to Today. In some respects we see ourselves as reviving, under a new name, the precious tradition of the Journal of the Burma Research Society, founded in 1910 and abolished in 1979 by the military regime. For the better part of a century, that journal was an open forum for scholars, professional and amateur, Burmese and non- Burmese, historians, social scientists, literary critiques, archeologists and we value the opportunity to recreate, for a new era, the open bazaar of quality work that its journal represented. The idea for such a journal arose in October 2011 at a meeting of seven Burmese scholars in the diaspora and three Western scholars of Burma, before the “opening.” Once it became clear that political conditions might allow us to operate in Myanmar with open participation, we added six members to the organizing committee and now plan to publish a physical journal based in Yangon. We have all observed, first-hand, the tremendous intellectual energy and organizational initiatives (little societies, discussion groups, NGO’s, charities, etc.) that have burst into the open over the past several years. We hope that out small initiative will contribute in a small way to this hopeful and energetic public culture....."
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Source/publisher: Pansodan Books (Volume 1 Number 1)
2016-07-00
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Sub-title: The winning cartoon in a competition organised by a French campaign group shows blood dripping from a Total oil container and forming the shape of Myanmar
Description: "UK-based cartoonist Carol Isaacs, also known as The Surreal McCoy, has won the #TotalCartoonChallenge, a competition organised by French campaign group Info Birmanie to protest oil company TotalEnergies’ business with the Myanmar military junta. Carol’s winning cartoon shows blood dripping from a Total oil container and forming the shape of Myanmar. Carol has deep ties to Myanmar, as her family fled the country as refugees during the Second World War. She has visited several times and is currently working on a graphic novel on her family’s history. Info Birmanie launched the #TotalCartoonChallenge on social media 10 days before TotalEnergies’ May 28 annual shareholder meeting. The challenge aimed to increase TotalEnergies’ reputational risk because of their continued business with the military junta. The winning prize is publication in Myanmar Now. “We know the challenge is symbolic and does not carry much weight by itself, but we hope that the sum of actions, such as the letter co-signed by more than 40 elected members of parliament in France, will generate enough momentum and visibility to force Total to stop financing the junta,” Info Birmanie assistant coordinator Arjuna Lebaindre told Myanmar Now. The cartoon challenge is part of a series of creative actions to oppose the Myanmar coup. The Raise Three Fingers campaign, which Carol is part of, is a Myanmar initiative that calls on artists to create a three-fingered salute, the symbol of pro-democracy movements in Myanmar, Thailand and Hong Kong. Info Birmanie is continuing its campaign against TotalEnergies’ business with the junta. They are now running an online petition calling for TotalEnergies to “block any payment to the military junta until the country is ruled by the democratically elected civilian government,” receiving almost 3,800 signatures since its launch..."
Source/publisher: "Myanmar Now" (Myanmar)
2021-06-05
Date of entry/update: 2021-06-06
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Description: "This piece launches an online essay series aimed at illuminating the coup and its aftermath from a research perspective. It is driven by an intense desire to put knowledge to work in the interests of participatory democracy and justice with a focus on state formative processes and imprisonment. For information on how to contribute please scroll to the end. To access the series, follow this link: http://essays.legacies-of-detention.org/ The military coup that took place in Myanmar on February 1st, 2021 sent shockwaves throughout the world. It has affected many who do research in and about Myanmar in a deep, visceral way. In the weeks—now months—since the takeover, we have followed developments closely. We have been in touch with our research partners in Myanmar. We have perused news and social media sites, attended virtual webinars, and listened to statement after statement at the UN. We have published in the Danish national press, posted gestures of solidarity on social media and participated in demonstrations expressing solidarity and calling out the military regime. Nevertheless, common to all these distant forms of witnessing—and occasionally acting—has been a sense of inadequacy as each day brings new horrors and tragedies. We are based at DIGNITY – the Danish Institute Against Torture, an organisation committed to the eradication of torture and the rehabilitation of torture survivors. So, we are not unused to testimonies and images of struggle and suffering. In one sense it is our stock in trade. And yet the coup and its aftermath has left us reeling, unbalanced and rudderless. Why? Is it because we were, fundamentally if unconsciously, invested in a fantasy of linear progress and democratic transition? Was our research attached to an underlying idea that the politics of Myanmar were in fact on a more hopeful trajectory than the stalled peace process, the Rohingya catastrophe, and the constitutional compromises implied? Does such a turn of events raise, once again, the haunting specter of the alleged irrelevance of research? Or is it because of the personal and professional ties we have developed with places and people that were suddenly under attack? For our research team, this sense of imbalance and inadequacy has been exacerbated by the fact that this crisis is what our research project is about: a state-in-the-making and the way imprisonment is implicated in (and reveals something about) that process and its meanings. Since 2016 we have been seeking,, to understand aspects of state and society by looking at prisons, their histories, their structures and dynamics, their effects, and the politics around them. The military coup, the arrests, torture and killings and the ensuing highly predictable crackdown on dissent that has involved the arrest, torture and killing of elected parliamentarians, activists, journalists, and civil society leaders have sent our team spinning. Inspired as we are to see friends, colleagues, and others fighting back, standing firm, and courageously confronting the repressive tactics of the police and the Tatmadaw, we are profoundly discomforted by the situation and what it means for the future of Myanmar. We realise that we are not alone in this, and the essay series we are launching is an invitation to share and put knowledge to work. A series of simple but related questions drive this initiative: How can knowledge be put to work to illuminate events and to counter news-oriented oversimplifications and nuance the standard discourses of the international community and the human rights world? How does one respond acutely, using grounded knowledge and critical reflection even as times are changing and it seems impossible to keep up? How can the authority and expertise of research be put to work in the moment? As a means through which to grapple with and respond to these questions the series of brief essays we will host aims to illuminate aspects of the present calamity through the application of an ethnographic sensibility. An ethnographic sensibility draws attention to meanings, to social practices, and to situated histories. It is both a form of observation, a form of analysis, and a form of writing. By encouraging an ethnographic sensibility, we aspire to produce and curate a form of reflection from below and from within that might inform, illuminate, and provoke further thought. The series is in some senses a response to the call of Matt Venker, Nicole, and Ma Ei Ei, in a Tea Circle post of February 10th, to own our responsibility as foreign researchers to provide context, all the time conscious of the fraught position we occupy as privileged outsiders. The focus of this series is narrow but nevertheless highly pertinent given the nature of the coup and its aftermath. Reflecting the scope of the Legacies of Detention in Myanmar research project, this series will center on four themes: Prisons, arrest and detention – how are detention and imprisonment being used repressively; who is being detained, and under what circumstances; what are the effects of detention; how are communities responding; to what extent are we seeing the resurrection of the former junta-era carceral state? Law and legitimacy – why is the Tatmadaw so obsessed with legitimacy; what form is ‘lawfare’ (Comaroff and Comaroff 2007) taking and why; how exactly has law been commandeered? State-in-the-making – what does the current situation mean for illusions about transition and for aspirations of democracy; how is the state metamorphosing currently; what kinds of sovereignties are at stake? Struggles of everyday life – what forms is resistance taking; how might current expressions of dissent be understood historically; how are people surviving; what traumas are reawakened? Making sense of violence is implicit across each of these themes. Contributions may be provisional and experimental, authoritative only to the extent that the reader is persuaded. Contributors are welcome, indeed encouraged, to write reflexively. This is in recognition of the grip that the situation and people in Myanmar have on researchers and the various ways in which this turn of events continues to shock and disturb. To feel is, after all, part and parcel of the ethnographic venture to generate vulnerable knowledge. An acute crisis insists on a response, especially when the crisis is an unfolding feature of a landscape that a research project is designed to address. We have few illusions about the difference writing can make in the current crisis here and now. But the compulsion to write is no less on that account. We aim to publish short (1000-1500 words), thought-filled, and thought-provoking pieces in an accessible style, though with a scholarly signature. We will not shy away from theory, but our source of sustenance and stimulation is everyday events. In this way we seek to put knowledge and experience to work. Through this series we hope to contribute to a renewed and engaged scholarship on the socio-political situation and the everyday experiences of people in Myanmar, as called for by Cheesman (2019) echoing Wittekind and Rhoades (2018, see also Jefferson 2020) even at this time of acute crisis. First and foremost, we hope to illuminate what is going on and to ensure that Myanmar is not forgotten. Contributions will be posted on a specially designed platform linked to the Legacies of Detention website and promoted via social media posts to ensure wide circulation. Depending on interest and uptake we expect to accept and publish contributions for a period of between three to six months. If you are interested in submitting a contribution, please contact Andrew M. Jefferson who will curate the series at [email protected] or [email protected]. Our aim will be to respond promptly with a rapid 48-hour turnaround between receipt of contributions, editorial work and posting. (Photo courtesy of Benjamin Small) Andrew M. Jefferson is a senior researcher at DIGNITY, working on issues pertaining to the relationship between states and subjects through the lens of imprisonment. Tomas Max Martin is a senior researcher at DIGNITY, working in the field of prison sociology and the anthropology of the state with a focus on the localization of human rights reform and the appropriation of penal technologies and architectures. Hannah Russell is a project officer, supporting the legacies of detention program at DIGNITY, and is a founding member of the Myanmar Action Group Denmark. Ergün Cakal is a legal advisor at DIGNITY, working on juridical understanding(s) and recognition(s) of state violence..."
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Source/publisher: "Tea Circle" (Myanmar)
2021-05-24
Date of entry/update: 2021-05-24
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Topic: Poets
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Description: "Poet Khet Thi was arrested by some 100 junta troops on the evening of May 8. The following day, he was dead. His wife reportedly had to ask the authorities for permission to collect his body, whose internal organs had been removed for autopsy, from Monywa Hospital. The 45-year-old poet was arrested for alleged possession of explosives, but no evidence was found at his home. He was the third poet to be killed by junta forces in Sagaing Region’s Monywa in just two months. Poets K Za Win, 39, and Kyi Lin Aye, 36, were shot dead in crackdowns in March. Poet U Yee Mon, the poet-turned-defense-minister in the National Unity Government (NUG) formed to rival the military regime, wrote on his Facebook page: “Khet Thi and K Za Win, two Monywa poets have fallen. I am sad. I am committed to fight until we win.” More than a dozen poets who have shown solidarity with the people against the military regime have also been detained in Yangon, Ayeyawady’s Pathein and Taninthayi’s Myeik. In Myanmar’s long history of revolution, poets have fought injustice with the power of art. After Myanmar’s last monarch King Thibaw was dethroned and sent into exile, renowned poets from the royal capital Mandalay, including Saya Pe, Sebunni Sayadaw, U Kyawt and Maunghtaung U Kyaw Hla, wrote poems intended to promote nationalism and patriotism. Saya Pe was not content fighting with the pen and went to Shan State to take up the sword. He died there. Maunghtaung U Kyaw Hla was also the first poet to be arrested under colonial rule for his anti-colonialist poems. The most famous poet laureate in the colonial period was Thakhin Kodaw Hmaing, also known as Maung Lun, who said he would fight with poems for the independence of the country. His pen proved to be mighty in instilling nationalism and patriotism in Myanmar’s people. In 1941, his reputation as an anti-colonial nationalist and patron of Doh Bamar Asiayon (the We Burmans Association) earned him a place on the British authorities’ “Burma List,” making him an “enemy of the state.” The association played an important part in Myanmar’s independence struggle, bringing together nationalist elements and fresh political ideals while raising political consciousness. In the time of the Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League government after independence, poets Daung Nwe Swe, Ne Thway Ni, Maung Yin Mon and others were known for their works supporting the movements of students, workers and farmers as well as anti-war poems and satirical works critical of bureaucrats. However, draconian censorship was imposed after General Ne Win seized power in 1962. Poet Min Yu Wai was sacked as the chief editor of military-run Myawady Magazine after he wrote a poem deemed to be critical of the dictator. Poet Win Latt and editor Win Khet of ‘Perspective’ Journal were sentenced to two years in prison for publishing a satirical poem about Ne Win and his wife Khin May Than. Many poets were put behind bars under the rule of Burma Socialist Program Party (BSPP) as they took part in every movement against the repressive regime. In 1970s, poet Lay Maung from Mandalay, who was serving his time as a political prisoner in Coco Islands, staged a hunger strike together with other prisoners. They called for abolishing the island prison, which was dubbed as a Burmese “Devil’s Island.” He died in prison after staging a hunger strike for more than 50 days. Thanks to the sacrifices of the poet and seven others, BSPP transferred all the prisoners to Yangon’s Insein Prison, marking a significant event in the history of Myanmar’s correctional system. Poets were united with the people in the pro-democracy uprising in 1988 that toppled the single-party dictatorship of Ne Win. U Min Ko Naing, one of the prominent student leaders in 1988, is also a poet. Student leader Shwe Phone Lu, who would later become a best-selling author-cum-poet under the pen name Taryar Min Wai, wrote a poem asking the students to boycott education as the military regime re-opened universities and schools after the uprising. He was jailed for five years for that poem. Famous writer-cum-poet Min Lu was also arrested in 1989 for his satirical poem “What has happened?” criticizing coup leader General Saw Maung and Myanmar’s military. Both he and the publisher were given five years in prison as the poem became a phenomenon. Poet Min Thu Wun, father of the 9th president of Myanmar and the first president of the National League for Democracy (NLD) government, U Htin Kyaw, had also had his poems banned by the military regime after the NLD won the 1990 general elections because he took an active part in the party’s campaigns. Poet Tin Moe, a prominent figure of the NLD, was also jailed for five years because he wrote poems and gave talks across the country for the cause of democracy. He was forced into exile after his release and died abroad in 2007. In 2008, poet Saw Wai was arrested for his Valentine’s Day poem with a coded message, ridiculing the then-dictator Senior General Than Shwe. The first words of each line of the poem read, “power-crazed Snr-Gen Than Shwe.” Over past 136 years since King Thibaw was dethroned in 1885 to military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s seizure of power on Feb. 1, 2021, poets have shown solidarity with the ordinary people and have been at the frontline in every revolution in Myanmar. Khet Thi’s following poem is a testimony to that. “In heads, they shoot Never do they know Revolution lies in hearts.”..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" (Thailand)
2021-05-15
Date of entry/update: 2021-05-16
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Description: "My friend David Arnott, who has died aged 77, made an important contribution to the struggle for human rights in Burma (Myanmar) through founding and running the Online Burma/Myanmar Library and the Burma Peace Foundation. Born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, he went to Wakefield grammar school and studied languages at Reading University. He spent the 1960s and 70s immersed in parts of the counterculture: driving a van-load of youngsters to the Soviet Union; joining CND marches; living alone for months on meagre means in Ibiza, while expanding his interest in Buddhism. In London in the 80s he founded or co-founded several mainly Buddhist or Burma-related organisations, including the Tibet Support Group and Burma Campaign UK. From 1991 until 1996 he worked in New York, supplying documentation to the UN human rights mechanisms, introducing Burma democracy activists to the UN scene, and supporting their lobbying. He then played a similar role in Geneva, where I co-operated with him, along with members of the European Burma Network. Projects there included a conference on the impact of tourism on indigenous peoples. His life’s work culminated in the Online Burma/Myanmar Library, a database featuring more than 60,000 documents in many languages. David was ahead of his time in advocating free information access as being a key to Burma’s future. From 2004 until his death he lived in the Mae Sot district in Thailand, an important centre for Burmese exiles. Over the last few years he struggled to raise funding for the library and to arrange a satisfactory succession. It is now run by a younger group of people inside Myanmar..."
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Source/publisher: "The Guardian" (UK)
2020-12-28
Date of entry/update: 2021-01-04
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Description: "Access to research in Myanmar will increase thanks to a new collaboration agreement between national and international partners, signed in Yangon today, and paving the way for a new national open access portal. The Myanmar Education, Research and Learning (MERAL) portal, to be launched in March, represents the first such national portal in the ASEAN Region that will collect, disseminate and preserve journal articles, theses and dissertations, conference proceedings and other research output from Myanmar universities, bringing greater accountability, transparency and participation to research, teaching and learning processes. Today's agreement was signed by The Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education of the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Director General, Professor Dr. Thein Win; Rectors' Committee of the National Education Policy Commission, Ministry of Education, Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Chair, Professor Dr Zaw Wai Soe; EIFL, Director, Rima Kupryte; and National Institute of Informatics of Japan, Director General, Dr. Masaru Kitsuregawa, Tokyo, Japan. "The Rectors' Committee was formed under the National Education Policy Commission by the National Education Law Amendment 2015 on 4th April, 2018 with 164 rectors from 164 universities. The Rectors' committee coordinates, cooperates and negotiates to help to develop the higher education institute without infringing on their independent administration and autonomy. One of the missions of Rectors' Committee is to develop a world-class higher education system, with a strong focus on research and innovation, to meet the country's social and economic development needs. Open Access is inevitable in research and MERAL serves as a means for the dissemination of the intellectual output of the universities and institutions in Myanmar. MERAL aims to provide online access to increase the impact of its research and foster a rich research culture..."
Source/publisher: eurekalert.org
2020-02-21
Date of entry/update: 2020-02-29
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Description: "Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Add us to your G+ circles: https://plus.google.com/b/11510880727... Abonnez vous à notre chaîne pour ne rater aucune future mise en ligne ▶ http://bit.ly/19osCqa CRUISE IN THE LAND OF A THOUSAND PAGODAS Take a behind the scenes peek into the lives of liner crew members and discover the pleasures of a life spent at sea. Stop Over will take you on prodigious trips across the most marvelous oceans and rivers of the world. Travel with us as we explore not just the waters of the world, but also the mythical cruise ships, legendary liners, magnificent sailboats and fascinating traditional vessels that take us from place to place. Board the Queen Elizabeth 2, the Royal Clipper, Le France/Le Norway, the Sun Boat II, the "Classica", the Vat Phou, the Bolero, the Wind Song, the Grigoriy Mikheev icebreaker and the Silver Cloud among many others. Travel from Southampton to New York, Gao to Mopti, Aswan to Abu Simbel, Dubai to the port of Muscate, on the famous Incense Route of the Desert Cities in the Negev. Produced by NIGHT & DAY..."
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Source/publisher: Stop Over - Documentary, Discovery, History
2015-05-05
Date of entry/update: 2019-07-15
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Description: ??Along downtown Rangoon?s Pansodan Street, this city?s hub of humming bookstores and street stalls, there are rich discoveries to be had. From bestseller novels, political investigations, bodice-ripper love stories, biographies, textbooks, TOEFL tomes, poetry, photocopied versions of Western works on Burma, and, in the dustier corners of the Lower Pansodan venders, dog-eared Mickey Spillane pulp fiction, distressed Marxist-Leninist texts in Russian, almost nostalgic Myanmar Socialist-era propaganda magazines, and sinister ? yet laughable ? military State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC)-era xenophobic conspiracy theory agitprop. A few years ago I found a prize for my library: an original Ian Fleming picture book of his classic Chitty Chitty Bang-Bang to join the collection of James Bond novels...??
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Source/publisher: Teacircleoxford
2018-09-17
Date of entry/update: 2018-10-06
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Description: "Universities in Myanmar have been through decades of challenging times, with closures and limited links to the world. As New Mandala?s co-founder Nicholas Farrelly has noted, since the rise of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, universities in Myanmar have become increasingly valued and able to connect with the world. He notes that ?Many institutions are working hard to re-connect with Myanmar colleagues and support the improvement of local academic conditions?. For university libraries, the new approach is a ray of hope. Myat Sann Nyien notes that ?The years before 2011 were very dark, with all information cut off. Librarians in Myanmar worked in what felt like an enclosed society, and libraries in Myanmar were lacking new and updated materials and facilities?. Connections to the world through university libraries are an important feature of this rebirth of higher education. Libraries in Myanmar institutions have, together with the National Library, collected the memory of the nation, curated through many collections of palm leaf manuscripts and rare historic texts. The University libraries aspire to deliver collections and services that will create greater research and education outcomes..."
Creator/author: Roxanne Missingham
Source/publisher: "New Mandala"
2017-06-23
Date of entry/update: 2017-12-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Long-time Myanmar watcher Andrew Selth takes a look at early lists, popular titles and recommended reading on the Southeast Asian nation..."
Creator/author: Andrew Selth
Source/publisher: "New Mandala"
2016-11-25
Date of entry/update: 2017-04-29
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Description: Executive Summary: The Myanmar Library Survey is the first in- depth nationwide study of the country?s public libraries. Commissioned by The Asia Foundation in partnership with the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (MBAPF), the survey aimed to establish a comprehensive, current picture of the Myanmar public library system to help inform the development of Myanmar?s information architecture and community initiatives. While much can be done to improve infrastructure and better support their role as information hubs, the survey reveals that citizens perceive libraries as having a significant and positive impact on community life. The survey findings will be circulated amongst key stakeholders, including governmental officials, policy makers, local and international non-governmental organizations, civil society, and local communities. A country coming out of decades of isolation, Myanmar is now rapidly building the information infrastructure needed for its citizens to participate in the reform process and compete in the global marketplace. Myanmar?s reverence toward libraries and its vast library network has the potential to aid this process. This study focuses on public libraries ? defined in Myanmar as libraries registered with the government ? because of their accessibility to a wider number of people and potential for scalability. In addition to public libraries, Myanmar has university, monastic, private, and specialized libraries, few of which register as public libraries. There are 55,755 registered public libr aries in the country, but only 4,868 are considered active. Prior to this study, very little was known about them. The objectives of the project were to sample active public libraries in order to: ..."
Source/publisher: Asia Foundation, Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation
2014-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2014-07-21
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Description: Organization of Entries: This list is divided by language (with the exception of government publications). Please note that translated pieces are included in the list for the original language of the source: (I) Burmese: Inscriptions 3 (II) Burmese: Dhammathats 4 (III) Burmese: Sit-tans and Royal Orders 5 (IV) Burmese: Ayei-taw-poun 6 (V) Burmese: Sadan 7 (VI) Burmese: Yazawin 8 (VII) Burmese: Thamaing 9 (VIII) Burmese: Correspondence 10 (IX) Burmese: Other 11 (X) Chinese 12 (XI) Dutch 13 (XII) English: Correspondence & Treaties 14 (XIII) English: Travel Accounts & Memoirs 18 (XIV) English: Gazetteers 25 (XV) English: Settlement Operations Reports 26 (XVI) English: Census Reports 27 (XVII) English: Other Government Reports 28 (XVIII) French 29 (XIX) German 30 (XX) Italian 31 (XXI) Japanese 32 (XXII) Latin 33 (XXIII) Mon 34 (XXIV) Pali 35 (XXV) Persian 36 (XXVI) Portuguese & Spanish 37 (XXVII) Russian 41 (XXVIII) Thai 42 (XXIX) Other 43
Creator/author: Michael W. Charney
Source/publisher: SOAS
2002-07-25
Date of entry/update: 2012-08-24
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Description: Forthcoming Additions to the Bibliography of Burma/Myanmar Research In preparation for the yearly bibliographic supplement, readers are asked to submit recent publications (and old ones) that were not included in the previous year?s edition. Since there are hundreds of publications on Burma each year, producing a complete bibliography would be impossible without the help and cooperation of the Burma research community. When submitting entries, please follow the style of the bibliographic supplement. Please also note, that we do not include encyclopedia articles in the bibliographic supplement, but we will note them here for the notice of readers. Further, while we include forthcoming publications in this list, again for the notice of readers, these entries will not be included in the supplement until they have actually been published. M. W. C.
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005
2005-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-10-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Literate Networks and the Production of Sgaw and Pwo Karen Writing in Burma, c.1830-1930 (William Womack); History and Ethnicity in Burma: Cultural Contexts of the Ethnic Category ?Kachin? in the Colonial and Post-Colonial State, 1824- 2004 (Mandy Sadan); The State of Vaccination: British Doctors, Indigenous Cooperation, and the Fight Against Smallpox in Colonial Burma (Atsuko Naono)
Creator/author: William Womack, Mandy Sadan, ATSUKO NAONO
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005
2005-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-10-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "...The following compilation is a first attempt to list the existing catalogues for the Burmese manuscripts in Great Britain and, as Dublin is included, Ireland. The list is mainly bibliographical, but it is hoped that it will nevertheless help to and perhaps even lead to a more systematic survey of the manuscripts than was possible here. In this respect, it does not claim to be complete. The publisher of the Bulletin will however be delighted to update this list whenever new catalogues or bibliographic references are brought to his knowledge..."
Creator/author: Tilman Frasch
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004,
2004-03-20
Date of entry/update: 2010-10-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Creator/author: OLIVER B. POLLAK.
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Volume I, Number 2 Autumn 2003
2003-09-20
Date of entry/update: 2010-10-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "...The following list represents a selection of books, monographs and reports devoted to Burma that has been published (or republished) over the past 20 years. All have been personally sighted and the relevant details verified. The list is not intended to be exhaustive — either in its listings or in its coverage — although an attempt has been made to include publications representing all the main subject areas and political viewpoints. No specific claims are made regarding the academic or literary merit of any of those publications listed. Rather, this selection is intended simply to highlight a range of publications on Burma which have appeared since 1988 and which may be of interest to both the scholar and general reader. Those who wish to pursue the subjects covered below are also advised to consult the growing literature on Burma in academic and professional journals..."
Creator/author: Andrew Selth
Source/publisher: Andrew Selth
2009-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-02-27
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "?The ‘Living? Bibliography of Burma Studies: The Secondary Literature” was first published in 2001, with the last update dated 26 April 2003. The SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research has been expanded to include a special bibliographic supplement this year, and every other year hereafter, into which additions and corrections to the bibliography will be incorporated. In the interim, each issue of the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research will include a supplemental list, arranged by topic and subtopic. Readers are encouraged to contact the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research with information about their publications, hopefully with a reference to a topic and sub-topic number for each entry, so that new information can be inserted into the bibliography correctly. References should be submitted in the form followed by the bibliography, using any of the entries as an example. Please note that any particular entry will only be included once, regardless of wider relevance. Eventually, all entries will be cross-listed to indicate other areas where a particular piece of research might be of use. This list has been compiled chiefly from direct surveys of the literature with additional information supplied by the bibliographies of numerous and various sources listed in the present bibliography. Additional sources include submissions from members of the BurmaResearch (including the former Earlyburma) and SEAHTP egroups, as well as public domain listings of personal publications on the internet. Please also note that newspaper and newsletter articles, encyclopedia articles, conference papers, and papers in progress will not be included in this list, as most are short pieces or extracts from already, or eventually to be, published works." M. W. C.
Creator/author: Michael Charney
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research Bibliographic Supplement (Winter, 2004) ISSN 1479-8484
2004-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2005-04-14
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS: Kyaw Yin Hlaing. The Politics of State-Business Relations in Post-Colonial Burma... ORGANIZATIONS: The Cornell Burma/Myanmar Group... SEMINARS: SOAS Burma Campaign Society; Britain Burma Society... CONFERENCES: UHRC Conference: Traditions of Knowledge in Southeast Asia; Northern Illinois University Burma Studies Conference; ISEAS Workshop on Myanmar Issues and Myanmar Views... PROGRAMMES: SEAMEO Regional Centre for History and Tradition, Myanmar (Burma)... FELLOWSHIPS: Postdoctoral Fellowships, Lund University.
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 2004,
2004-03-20
Date of entry/update: 2004-08-25
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS: ALYSSA PHILLIPS. ‘The mirror cracked?: The colonial history-making project and its legacy in Burma, 1900 to the present... PAULLETTE M. HOPPLE. The Structure of Nominalization in Burmese... SEMINARS: Burma Campaign Society; Britain Burma Society... CONFERENCES: Traditions of Knowledge in Southeast Asia; Burma Studies Conference (Northern Illinois University).
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 2003
2003-09-20
Date of entry/update: 2004-08-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Version internet 2002. "...En Birmanie la zone ouverte aux ?trangers est r?duite par la guerre civile, et toute ?tude y serait d?rang?e par la pr?sence impos?e d?une escorte militaire. Les Kayah les plus faciles ? approcher sont les Kayah orientaux (Kay? dans leur propre dialecte). On peut les atteindre de la fronti?re tha?e sans trop de difficult?s. Ces groupes Kayah sont assez diff?rents de leurs cousins de l?ouest, et en particulier des Kayah de Kyebogyi. La principale diff?rence est due aux conditions ?conomiques, le pays tr?s vallonn? ? l?est de la Salween n?est pas propice ? l?agriculture, et la rotation annuelle des champs induit un d?placement p?riodique des villages. A l?oppos? des villages occidentaux qui sont grands et stables, ? l?est il faut souvent trois heures de marche pour d?atteindre le prochain hameau, ou les champs distants. Les villages sont d?habitude construits vers le tiers sup?rieur des collines, proche, mais pas ? c?t?, d?un point d?eau. A l?int?rieur m?me des villages les gros arbres ne vont pas ?tre coup?s: les pentes sont abruptes, parfois 70%, et les racines n?cessaires pour retenir le sol. Il en sera de m?me dans les champs, o? seuls les petits arbres seront ?limin?s. Je vis en 1983, apr?s que tous les plants de riz tardifs moururent en raison de la s?cheresse, qu?une v?g?tation d?un m?tre de haut envahit les champs abandonn?s en trois mois. Pour des raisons qu?il faudra ?tudier, les manifestations ext?rieures de la religion diff?rent aussi entre l?ouest et l?est du Karenni. Par exemple le Ko Thoo Bow, ou m?t aux esprits, sera parfois tr?s petit, fait d?un simple bambou, et non d?cor? ? la mani?re de ceux de Kyebogyi. Je ne vis pas une fois la guirlande faite de petits fanions accroch?e vers le sommet des m?ts reli?es au sol comme elle le serait ? l?ouest. Dans les villages o? je me suis rendu, je notais souvent l?absence de m?t femelle, et la simplicit? du ?how?, r?duit ? une simple table en bambou..."
Creator/author: Jean-Marc Rastorfer
Source/publisher: C?doK (Centre d??tudes et de Documentation sur les Karenni)
2002-06-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Francais, French
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Description: J?RG SCHENDEL. The Mandalay Economy: Upper Burma?s External Trade, c. 1850–90... MARILYN V. LONGMUIR. Oil in Burma: The Extraction of ?Earth-Oil? to 1914... ANNE-MAY CHEW. Les Temples Excav?s de la Colline de Po Win en Birmanie Centrale: Architecture, Sculpture et Peintures murales... MICHAEL W. CHARNEY. Where Jambudipa and Islamdom Converged: Religious Change and the Emergence of Buddhist Communalism in Early Modern Arakan (Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries).
Source/publisher: SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 1, No., 1, Spring 2003
2003-03-20
Date of entry/update: 2003-03-31
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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