General studies (covering various periods and themes)
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About 532,000 results (August 2017)
Source/publisher:
Various sources via Youtube
Date of entry/update:
2017-08-21
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English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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A chronology of events by year from 2005-2015 summarising: AID... CHILDREN... DEMOCRACY... DISPLACEMENT... DRUGS... ECONOMY... ENVIRONMENT... ETHNIC ISSUES... HEALTH... HUMAN RIGHTS... INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS... LANDMINES, BOMBS... REGIME... WOMEN
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ALTSEAN-Burma
Date of entry/update:
2016-04-11
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English
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Source/publisher:
Wikipedia
Date of entry/update:
2014-06-09
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Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Contents:
1 Early history (to 9th century CE)
1.1 Prehistory
1.2 Pyu city-states
1.3 Mon kingdoms
2 Pagan Dynasty (849–1298)
2.1 Early Pagan
2.2 Pagan Empire (1044–1287)
3 Small kingdoms
3.1 Ava (1364–1555)
3.2 Hanthawaddy Pegu (1287–1539)
3.3 Shan States (1287–1557)
3.4 Arakan (1287–1784)
4 Toungoo Dynasty (1510–1752)
4.1 First Toungoo Empire (1510–1599)
4.2 Restored Toungoo Kingdom (Nyaungyan Restoration) (1599–1752)
5 Konbaung Dynasty (1752–1885)
5.1 Reunification
5.2 Wars with Siam and China
5.3 Westward expansion and wars with British Empire
5.4 Administrative and economic reforms
5.5 Culture
6 British rule
6.1 World War II and Japan
6.2 From the Japanese surrender to Aung San?s assassination
7 Independent Burma
7.1 1948–62
7.2 1962–88
7.3 Crisis and 1988 Uprising
7.4 1989–2006
7.5 2007 anti-government protests
7.6 Cyclone Nargis
7.7 2011–present
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
11 External links
Source/publisher:
Wikipedia
Date of entry/update:
2011-11-27
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General studies (covering various periods and themes), Multiple periods of Burmese history
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English
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Articles etc
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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English
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Wikipedia
Date of entry/update:
2014-07-03
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General studies (covering various periods and themes), Pre-History, Pyu kingdoms [100BC- 840AD], Mon kingdom [9th - 11th, 13th - 16, 18th]
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English
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"...Being of direct interest to audiences both inside and outside sets Aung-Thwin apart from most other historians of Burma writing in English in recent decades. Aung-Thwin has been explicit in re-evaluating evidence and interpretations that have shaped Burmese history for the past 100 to 150 years.(2) He has argued that much of our understanding of Burmese history comes from the hands of a few colonial-era scholars, such as G. H. Luce. Working in good faith with the skills and understandings that they had, these scholars wrote the best histories that they could, but their interpretations inevitably reflected contemporaneous ideas. Some of these scholars were involved in the subjugation of the Burmese empire or connected with the colonial regime, and so had an interest in portraying aspects of Burmese history and its participants in a particular light... Whatever the specific points of interpretational disagreement that the reader may have with the Aung-Thwins? work, these should not blind us to all that Michael Aung-Thwin has done over the past several decades. He has shaken up the complacent certainties of the Burmese historiographical landscape, forcing us to reconsider our own positions and understandings by reexamining the available evidence. He has alerted to us that the ground under our feet may not be nearly as solid as we take it to be...."
Patrick McCormick
Source/publisher:
"New Mandala"
Date of publication:
2013-07-19
Date of entry/update:
2014-07-16
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English
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Wikipedia (Burmese)
Date of entry/update:
2013-12-18
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Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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"The Burma Road (Chinese: 滇缅公路) was a road linking Burma with the southwest of China. Its terminals were Kunming, Yunnan, and Lashio, Burma. It was built while Burma was a British colony in order to convey supplies to China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Preventing the flow of supplies on the road helped motivate the occupation of Burma by the Empire of Japan in 1942. Use of the road was restored to the Allies in 1945 after the completion of the Ledo Road. Some parts of the old road are still visible today.
The road is 717 miles (1,154 km) long and runs through rough mountain country.[2] The sections from Kunming to the Burmese border were built by 200,000 Burmese and Chinese laborers during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and completed by 1938.[3][4] It had a role in World War II, when the British used the Burma Road to transport materiel to China before Japan was at war with the British. Supplies would be landed at Rangoon (now Yangon) and moved by rail to Lashio, where the road started in Burma.
In July 1940, the British government yielded, for a period of three months, to Japanese diplomatic pressure to close down the Burma Road to supplies to China.[5]:299 After the Japanese overran Burma in 1942, the Allies were forced to supply Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalist Chinese by air. United States Army Air Force cargo planes, mainly Curtiss C-46s, flew these supplies from airfields in Assam, India, over "the hump", the eastern end of the Himalaya uplift.Under British command Indian, British, Chinese, and American forces, the latter led by General Joseph Stilwell, defeated a Japanese attempt to capture Assam and recaptured northern Burma. In this area they built a new road, the Ledo Road which ran from Ledo Assam, through Myitkyina and connected to the old Burma Road at Wandingzhen, Yunnan, China. The first trucks reached the Chinese frontier by this route on January 28, 1945..."
Source/publisher:
YouTube via Way Back
Date of publication:
2017-09-05
Date of entry/update:
2020-05-25
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Individual Documents
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Japanese Occupation Period and World War II, General studies (covering various periods and themes), China-Burma relations
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"This film report, "Why We're Here," was delivered by General Daniel Sultan, who succeeded General Stilwell as Allied commander of Burma/India operations. When surveyed, 50% of US forces had responded that they didn't know why they were in seemingly obscure South East Asia, "fighting to save the Chinese and the British Empire," instead of in Europe or the highly publicized island campaigns in the South Pacific. In response, the General shows the vital strategic importance of keeping China in the war and the essential role (and sacrifices) of British and Chinese forces, all done through engaging film clips and maps. The epic construction and importance of the new Stilwell Road and petroleum pipeline to China are also shown in detail, something all US troops could be proud of. Finally, the essential role played by logistical support units and hospital personnel in making it all happen is emphasized..."
Source/publisher:
ZenosWarbirds
Date of publication:
2013-12-02
Date of entry/update:
2020-05-25
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Individual Documents
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General studies (covering various periods and themes), Japanese Occupation Period and World War II, Burma/Myanmar's Foreign relations, general
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"Made in 1945, BURMA VICTORY is a British documentary about the Burma Campaign during World War Two. It was directed by Roy Boulting. The introduction to the film outlines the geography and climate of Burma, and the extent of the Japanese conquests. The film then describes the establishment of the South East Asian Command (SEAC) under Mountbatten, "a born innovator and firm believer in the unorthodox", and gives a comparatively detailed account of subsequent military events, including the Battle of Imphal-Kohima and Slim's drive on Mandalay, Arakan landings, the northern offensive of the Americans and Chinese under Stilwell, and the roles played by Chindits and Merrill's Marauders. The film ends with the capture of Rangoon and the Japanese surrender. The film focuses on the difficulties of climate, terrain, the endemic diseases of dysentery, malaria, etc., the vital role of air supplies, the shattering of the myth of Japanese invincibility and the secondary role of the Burma campaign in overall Allied strategy.
This film represents a British look at the campaign and was the pet project of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, and he planned it as a joint Anglo-American production. But this scheme foundered over the inability of the U.S. leadership and British to agree on the main theme of the film. The British wanted it to concentrate on the drive southwards to liberate Burma. The Americans, anxious not to be seen to be participating in the restoration of the British Empire, wanted to emphasize the heroic building of the Ledo Road and the drive northwards to relieve the Chinese. In the end the two sides went their separate ways. The Americans produced the Ronald Reagan narrated film "The Stilwell Road" and the British made "Burma Victory." It was the final production of the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) and was directed, like Desert Victory (1943), by Roy Boulting. Not released until after the war was over, it was hailed and promoted as ‘the real Burma film’.
The Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II was fought primarily between the forces of the British Empire and China, with support from the United States, against the forces of the Empire of Japan, Thailand, and the Indian National Army. British Empire forces peaked at around 1,000,000 land, naval and air forces, and were drawn primarily from British India, with British Army forces (equivalent to 8 regular infantry divisions and 6 tank regiments),[29] 100,000 East and West African colonial troops, and smaller numbers of land and air forces from several other Dominions and Colonies.[5] The Burmese Independence Army was trained by the Japanese and spearheaded the initial attacks against British Empire forces..."
Source/publisher:
PeriscopeFilm
Date of publication:
2016-05-31
Date of entry/update:
2020-05-24
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General studies (covering various periods and themes), Japanese Occupation Period and World War II
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""Exclusive commentary by Maj: FRANK OWEN Publisher of SEAC The 14th. Army's Newspaper".
Burma.
Various shots of the planes flying over Burmese jungle. Bombs bursting amongst trees in the jungle.
Long shot of river Chindwin - troops in foreground. Several shots of the troops carrying supplies across the river. Troops with arms crossing river.
Dakota planes (C47) flying overhead. Supplies on parachutes leaving planes and dropping to ground. Supplies dropping to ground without parachutes - free drop. Men unpacking supplies. Chin tribesmen carrying supplies.
Various shots of pagodas and temples of Kalewa. Long shot of British troops placing 5th Indian Division flag on roof of temple.
Long shot of the edge of river Chindwin. Motor transport and mules with men starting to build pontoon bridge in the background. Several shots of Indian troops building pontoon bailey bridge. Several shots of completed bridge (largest floating bailey bridge). Close up shot of notice - Grub Bridge. Guns towed by trucks and tractors crossing bridge. Native men carrying supplies. Infantry with tanks advancing -11th East African Division, men from Kenya and Uganda. Several shots of 3.7 ack-ack guns firing. Japanese plane crashing in jungle. Troops marching through jungle getting closer to road to Mandalay..."
Source/publisher:
British Pathé
Date of publication:
2014-04-13
Date of entry/update:
2020-05-24
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Executive Summary:
"• Race,
or ethnicity,
compounded
by
religion, was a powerful theme in the Burmese
nationalist movement in the 1920s, 30s
and ?40s.
Burmese nationalists
felt their country
was twice
colonised,
first by the British, and secondly by South Asians.
As Burma was
governed as an Indian province until 1937, South Asian immigrants and capital freely
flowed into the colony.
As a consequence,
Buddhism was said to be in danger
particularly
from rapid growth of the South Asian
Hindu and Muslim
populations.
Political activists,
including Buddhist monks, are repeating this old cry today.
• The issue of race was compounded by the necessity of integrating the ethnically and
linguistically diverse northern border regions
of Myanmar
which had been indirectly
ruled
together with the directly ruled central and
southern parts of the country at the time
of independence in 1948.
This was
further complicated
by the special provisions made in
British law for ethnic representation in the directly ruled areas.
The upshot
was
continuing armed strife
up to today.
• During the first period of parliamentary government, under Prime Minister U Nu, race
became
an
issue upon which deals could be done and offers of concessions made in
exchange for political support.
The military socialist regime of General Ne Win failed to
depoliticise the race issue.
The
current
2008 constitution merely compounds earlier
efforts to appease political demands made in the name of ethnicity.
• With the re-establishment of constitutional government since 2011, these
recurring
themes
have
come back in
both domestic and international guises, threatening to
endanger the effort to re-establish a viable political system.
The so-called Rohingya issue
is now being used to fuel political discord.
• Only by depoliticising ethnicity and race will it be possible to maintain political order and
reasoned politics.
As human rights are confused with group aspirations in modern
discourse,
this will be extremely difficult but if an effort to remove race from discussions
of public policy
is
not attempted, the result could be disastrous for the development of the
constitutional order."
Robert H. Taylor
Source/publisher:
"ISEAS Perspective" - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Date of publication:
2015-03-02
Date of entry/update:
2015-05-15
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Inter-Communal violence and discrimination - Myanmar - General articles and analysis, General studies (covering various periods and themes)
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CHAPTER I - THE BACKGROUND:
1. Form and Function...
2. Geographical Background...
3. The Historical Background...
4. Administrative Background:
(a) Territorial administration;
(b) Departmental machinery;
(c) Local government;
(d) The Hill Tribes;
e) The Judiciary;
f) The Secretariat;
g) The Legislature...
5. The Japanese Interregnum...
6. The British Restoration...
7. Effects of Foreign Rule...
8. Problems of Public Administration...
9. The Constitution.....
CHAPTER II - THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT:
1. The President (Sections 45 ? 64)...
2. Parliament:
a) in the Constitution;
b) in operation...
3. The?Executive Government:
a) in the Constitution;
b) The Cabinet and Ministries;
c) Planning;
(d) Parties and pressure groups...
4. The Administrative Machinery:
(a) The Secretariat;
(b) The executive services;
(cj Autonomous agencies;
(d) The judiciary.....
CHAPTER III - LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
(a) Local Bodies;
(b) The village court;
(c) Township and District Councils.....
CHAPTER IV - REGIONAL GOVERNMENT:
1. Preliminary Negotiations...
2. The Panglong Agreement...
3. The Hill Peoples? Council...
4. The Rees-Williams Committee...
5. Federation in the Assembly...
6. Federation in the Constitution: general provision...
7. The Shan States...
8. The Kachin State (Section 166-179) ...
9. The Karen state (Section 180 - l8l) ...
10. The Kayah state (Section 182 - 195) ...
11. The Chin Special Division (Section 196 ? 198)...
CHAPTER V - POST MORTEM.....
SUPPLEMENT. THE NE WIN ADMINISTRATION AND AFTER
by John Seabury Thompson
J. S. Furnivall
Source/publisher:
Institute of Pacific Relations
Date of publication:
1960-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2012-09-05
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British colonial period : Commentary (non-official books, academic papers, articles and reports), General studies (covering various periods and themes)
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English
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This article was written under the pen-name San Aung. Many texts of great value to historians were written during the
Myanmar monarchies. After independence the Myanmar Historical Commission was formed and assigned the duty of
writing Myanmar?s history. The author eulogized Sithu U Kaung, the first chairman of the Burma Historical
Commission. His death in a plane crash in 1957 was a great loss for Myanmar?s scholars and educators.....
Subject Terms: 1. Myanmar - History .....
2. Myanmar Historical Commission .....
Key Words: 1. Burma Histor7ical Commission
2. Historical Writing
3. U Kaung
Ba Shin, Col. /ဗိုလ်မှူး ဘရှင်
Source/publisher:
"Myawaddy" No. 7, May 1957, pp5-7
Date of publication:
1957-05-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-15
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Individual Documents
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Multiple periods of Burmese history, Washington University, General studies (covering various periods and themes)
Language:
Burmese/ ျမန္မာဘာသာ (Metadata: English and Burmese)
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Der Artikel beschreibt die historische Entstehung ethnischer Konflikte seit der Kolonialzeit sowie die Instrumentalisierung der ethnsichen Zugeh?rigkeit unter dem Milit?r; historical development of ethnic conflicts; instrumentalisation of ethnicity
Hingst, René
Source/publisher:
Heinrich B?ll Stiftung
Date of publication:
2003-05-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-12
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Individual Documents
Category:
Armed conflict and peace-building in Burma - theoretical, strategic and general, General studies (covering various periods and themes)
Language:
German, Deutsch
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Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: In search of ?Mong Mao?
a. State or chieftainship?
b. Historical over-extrapolation: Unified states and Southern Advances
c. Geography: Where was Mong Mao?
d. A Tai Frontier?
e. History of the Tai Frontier: Public or hidden?
f. Goals, conventions, sources, and analytical frameworks
2. Tai raids and the founding of Ava (1301-1382)
a. Tai raids, a period of crisis, and the founding of Ava (1359-1368)
b. Mingyiswasawke builds the state of Ava (1368-1400)
3. The Ming conquest of the Tai Frontier (1382-1398)
a. The initial Ming attempts to win Yunnan over (1369-1380)
b. The Ming invasion and conquest of Yunnan (1380-1383)
c. Si Lun-fa seizes power and submits to the Ming (1382)
d. A Tai challenge to Ming rule in Yunnan (1382-1388)
e. The Battle of Dingbian 1388: A Ming punitive expedition against the Tais
f. The pursuit of Si Lun-fa and war reparations (1388)
g. Tai attacks against Ava and a Ming mission to the region (1393-1396)
h. Si Lun-fa deposed by a rival Tai leader (1397)
i. The reinstatement of Si Lun-fa (1398)
4. The Ava-Pegu and Ming-Vietnam Wars (1401-1427)
a. Ming frontier administration reorganized (1402-1406)
b. The Ava-Pegu War: Irregular cavalry forces from the Tai frontier (1401-1406)
c. Further inroads into the Tai Frontier by Ava under Minyekyawswa (1406-1414)
5. A crucible of war: The aftermath of the Ava-Pegu and Ming-Vietnam Wars (1426-1438)
a. The North: Mong Mao expansionary warfare eastwards into Ming Yunnan (1427-1438)
b. Political disorder and uncertainty in the Tai Frontier: A small case study
c. The South: Tai involvement in Ava?s domestic politics (1426-1440)
6. Burma as Ming proxy in a Tai manhunt: The final Luchuan-Pingmian Campaigns (1442-1454)
a. The Third Luchuan-Pingmian Campaign (1443-1444)
b. The Fourth Luchuan-Pingmian Campaign (1448-1449)
c. The Burmese capture Si Ji-fa (1449-1454)
7. Conclusion
a. Who ultimately controlled Mong Yang?
b. Historical cycles in the Tai frontier
c. Long-run demographic forces behind warfare in the Tai Frontier: Further research
d. A brief summary of the history
e. Epilogue: Bibliographical notes on Tai history
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Jon Fernquest
Source/publisher:
SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 4.2 (Autumn 2006)
Date of publication:
2006-09-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-10-03
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English
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"This paper proposes a new historical interpretation of pre-modern relations between Burma and Siam by analyzing these relations within the historical context of the formation of Burmese states: the first Toungoo, the restored Toungoo and the early Konbaung empires, respectively. The main argument is that the conflictive conditions leading to the military confrontation between Burma and Siam from the 16th to 19th centuries were dynamic. The changing nature of Burmese states? conflict with Siam was contingent firstly on the internal condition of Burmese courts? power over lower Burma and secondly on the external condition of international maritime trade.
The paper discusses this in seven parts:
1. Introduction;
2. Previous studies: some limitations;
3. Post-Pagan to pre-Toungoo period;
4. The first Toungoo empire: the outbreak of Burmese-Siamese warfare;
5. The restored Toungoo empire: Mandala without Ayutthaya;
6. The early Konbaung empire: regaining control of Ayutthaya; and
7. The early Konbaung empire: Southward expansion to the Malay Peninsula."...Keywords: Burma; Siam; warfare; state formation; Toungoo; Konbaung
Pamaree Surakiat
Source/publisher:
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Working Paper 64
Date of publication:
2006-04-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-03-12
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Individual Documents
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Multiple periods of Burmese history, Thailand-Burma relations, General studies (covering various periods and themes)
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English
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The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U, Faber and Faber: 2007, P361...
Burma?s Famous Waterway Gives a New Biographical-History Book Its Title...
"In his latest book, targeting a general readership, Thant Myint-U collages his memoirs, travelogue and genealogy against Burma?s historical background.
In the late 1820s, the first Anglo-Burmese war dealt an initial major blow to the Konbaung dynasty. It was then that scholars and Buddhist monks at the court of Ava began to revise and update U Kala?s Chronicle of Burmese Kings. The result was The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma, an endeavor Thant Myint-U finds ?a fitting thing to do, when the future seemed unclear, the present had become so painful, and the lessons of the past needed a more proper accounting.? This could well have been Thant Myint-U?s own intention..."
Ko Kpo Thett
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 15, No. 7
Date of publication:
2007-07-00
Date of entry/update:
2008-05-03
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English
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Die hier vorgestellte These besagt, dass es im buddhistischen Birma ein von Menschen aus allen Schichten der Bevölkerung geteiltes geschichtlich überliefertes System von Vorstellungen und Erwartungen gibt, das mit unserem Begriff "Wohlfahrtsstaat" belegt werden kann.
keywords: burmese way to socialism, social system, constitution, political culture, welfare state
Hans-Bernd Zöllner
Source/publisher:
Asienhaus Focus Asien Nr. 26; S. 15-21
Date of publication:
2005-12-29
Date of entry/update:
2006-03-20
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Social studies of Burma, General studies (covering various periods and themes), Political analysis of Burma and the region, Burmese political culture - general
Language:
Deutsch, German
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Gen Kyaw Zaw, 84, alias Thakin Shwe, is one of the founders of the Tatmadaw, or Burma?s armed forces. He is one of the Thirty Comrades who went to Japan for military training in 1941. He joined the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in 1944 and was elected to the Central Committee a year later. In 1956, he was accused of leaking news to the CPB and forced to leave the army. He served as Vice Chief of General Staff of the CPB until the 1989 mutiny. In written correspondence with The Irrawaddy, Kyaw Zaw discussed Burma?s past and the lessons it holds for the country?s future.
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 11, No. 10
Date of publication:
2003-12-00
Date of entry/update:
2004-02-14
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Individual Documents
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English
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Gedanken zur Geschichte Burmas, 10 Jahre nach der Machtübergabe an SLORC. Kurze Anmerkung zu deutsch-burmesischen Beziehungen, Kolonialzeit, König Thibaw. Reflections about Burma's history ten years after 1988. SLORC - SPDC, King Thibaw, Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi, German-Burmese relations.
Hans-Bernd Zöllner
Source/publisher:
Südostasien Jg.14, Nr. 3 - Asienhaus
Date of publication:
1998-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-12-05
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Individual Documents
Language:
Deutsch, German
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Jane Carter 1995?
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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English
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This is the first part of a three-part series on the past thousand years of Burmese history, by historian U Aung Khin
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 8. No. 2
Date of publication:
2000-02-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Individual Documents
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English
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Introduction by the Guest Editor to "Burmese Heritage", a collection of articles published in the IIAS Newsletter Issue 25, October 2001.
"The Union of Myanmar, more commonly known as Burma, has a very rich and culturally
diverse heritage. The Burmese are the majority of the population while Kachin, Chin,
Arakanese, Shan, and Karen form important minority groups cultivating their own
traditions. Since the late eighteenth century, the area covered today by the Union of
Myanmar was known to Westerners as Burma. The renaming of the country by the
military government a few years ago is still a controversial issue for political opponents,
though 'Myanmar' was the usual literary name for the country since the earliest days of
Burmese epigraphy..."
Stephan van Galen
Source/publisher:
Newsletter, Issue 25, International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden)
Date of publication:
2001-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Individual Documents
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English
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"The 1988 Uprising in Burma"
by Dr Maung Maung (foreword by Franklin Mark Osanka),
Monograph 49, 1999,
Yale Southeast Asia Studies,
New Haven, Connecticut..."Despite its title, this is not an account of the dramatic events that engulfed Burma in 1988. It is an attempt to rewrite history, a whitewash of one of the most brutal massacres in modern Asian history. More precisely, it is a blind eulogy to Burma?s aging strongman Gen Ne Win. And the reverence for the "Old Man," as he is usually referred to in Burma, is extended even to his children and grandchildren. For these reasons alone, Dr. Maung Maung?s book is worth reading because it shows how far an academic sycophant is prepared to go to please his mentor..."
Bertil Lintner
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 8. No.8
Date of publication:
2000-08-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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English
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"The nature of time is incomprehensible. Days that crept and months that crawled telescope into years that seem to fly past.
Burma is a land of soothsayers. Campaigning in the Irrawaddy division in 1989, I met a young doctor who told me anxiously that after careful astrological calculation, local Buddhist monks had come to the conclusion that nine years would pass before the movement for democracy was crowned with victory. "Nine years," he said with furrowed brow, "Can we bear it for so long?" "Why not?" I replied absently, wondering about the scientifically calculable probability rate of astrological predictions with one part of my mind while the other tried to work out the implications of a decade of struggle. At that time, a decade stretched out mistily into the unforseeable future; but now that almost the whole of it has been left behind, it has shrunk to negligible proportions..."
Aung San Suu Kyi
Date of publication:
1998-12-01
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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By Aung San Suu Kyi (Statements, Speeches, Writings, Interviews), General studies (covering various periods and themes)
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English
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Kei Nemoto
Date of publication:
2001-02-00
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2003-06-03
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Japanese
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"Thai histories have long celebrated the epic victory of King Phra Naresuan Maharat during a duel with the Burmese crown prince from elephant back and the subsequent restoration of Thai independence, but recently a new narrative has glorified Naresuan?s sister—Phra Suphankalaya—and her heroic devotion to brother and state which has transformed this figure from a footnote in history to a ?magical? being and renewed the interest of Thais in their history with Burma..."
Moe Gyo
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"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 7. No. 6
Date of publication:
1999-07-00
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2003-06-03
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English
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"On Sept 11, the world watched in horror as a wave of devastation swept the United States. The
international response to the attacks on New York and Washington, while far from unanimous in its
assessment of the underlying causes of this tragedy, was swift in its recognition that a new era of global
conflict had been born. The first war of the new millennium had begun, and with it, a dawning sense of the
dangers that lie ahead..."
Editorial
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"The Irrawaddy", Vol 9. No. 7
Date of publication:
2001-09-00
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2003-06-03
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English
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The wife of former dictator Ne Win was in Tokyo recently to conduct research for a project to "rewrite modern Burmese history," according to a report from Radio Free Asia?s Burmese-language service. Ni Ni Myint, who is also the director of the Historical Research Center in Rangoon, was accompanied by several other historians on her trip to meet Japanese experts on Burmese history. This was her second visit to Japan in two years.
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"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 8. No. 10 (Intelligence section)
Date of publication:
2000-10-00
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2003-06-03
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English
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Rights, Justice and Good Governance in Burmese Tradition.
This is the second part of a three-part series on the past thousand years of Burmese history, by historian U Aung Kin.
round A.D. 100 the Mon people of what is now lower Burma were said to have established contact with traders from India, from whom they imported astrology, political ideas, and above all, the art of writing. The Mon derived their alphabet from India and the Burmese words came from the Mon. The first mention of the word ?Mirma? was found in a Mon inscription dated 1102. The word ?Mranma? (now Myanmar) first appeared in an inscription of 1190. And the spelling later changed to ?Mramma? around 1332...
U Aung Kin
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 8, No. 2
Date of publication:
2000-03-00
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2003-06-03
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English
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"...Q: Who do you think really killed Bogyoke Aung San? A: Who really killed Bogyoke Aung San was the British government. It was their plot. Q: Why do you say that? A: I suppose there were three reasons why he was killed. Firstly, Bogyoke Aung San was the leader who could organise and unite the whole country so they were afraid of the whole of Burma uniting. This was the main reason. Secondly, Bogyoke Aung San could reunite with the Communist Party of Burma. They were worried about that too. And finally, they supposed that they could handle Burma more easily if they removed him. These were the reasons why he was killed..."
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"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 5. No. 4-5
Date of publication:
1997-08-00
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2003-06-03
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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