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A Man Like Him: Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung
Hardcover
Series: Studies on Southeast Asia, Book 47
Biographies GeneralSoutheast Asian History
ISBN13: 9780877277774
Publisher: Cornell Univ
Published: Nov 13 2008
Pages: 205
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.10 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent of Britain in the late 1930s and the Japanese Occupation of the 1940s. The memoir is written by U Chit Maung's wife, Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay, a resilient woman whose deep admiration and love for her uncompromising husband are captured here.
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