ARTICLES: U Thaw Kaung: Palm-leaf Manuscript Record of a Mission Sent by the Myanmar King to the Chinese Emperor in the Mid-Eighteenth Century... Donald M. Stadtner: The Golden Rock at Kyaik-hti-yo... Jon Fernquest: The Ecology of Burman-Mon warfare and the Pre-modern Agrarian State (1383-1425)..... RESEARCH NOTES: A Tigress on the Shwedagon!..... BOOK REVIEWS: Emmanuel Guillon: Parlons Mon (Homeri Moun Co): Langue et Civilization. (Jon Fernquest)... Donald M. Seekins. Burma and Japan Since 1940: From Co-Prosperity to Quiet Dialogue. (Edmund Clipton)... Mikael Gravers, ed. Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma. (William Womack)