"Burmese postage stamps record the country?s official history, therefore the pro-democracy movement goes unrecognized...Postage stamps are more than just small, adhesive pieces of paper that people put on envelopes, the author of this book argues. In the case of Burma, they are ?a colorful visual record of its unique history, from the British colonial government through the Japanese occupation, the British military administration, Burma?s independence, the revolutionary council, and the Burmese Way to Socialism.? But, as there are no stamps depicting the pro-democracy uprising of 1988, the author fills this void by designing his own stamps to commemorate this struggle for freedom, and, who knows?— one day they may be sold in post offices in his home country?..."