Burma Past and Present
Author | : Albert Fytche |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Burma |
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Author | : Albert Fytche |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Burma |
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Author | : Alice Marion Rowlands Hart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Burma |
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Author | : Sylvia Fraser-Lu |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Craftsmen have always held an honoured place in Burmese society and have taken great pride in their creative abilities. In pre-colonial Burma, all sections of the population - from royalty to the monkhood to the common folk - used finely crafted objects in their everyday lives. Prehistoricand Historic evidence indicates that the inhabitants of Burma have been fashioning objects of beauty and utility for over 2,000 years.Buddhism over the centuries has been the prime inspiration for much of Burma's artistic endeavour. This, in combination with a thriving body of pre-Buddhist animistic beliefs, a rich oral and vernacular literature, and a love of detailed surface embellishment, have culminated in the production ofdistinctive works of art.In this work, the author introduces the reader to the scope and beauty of Burmese crafts by exploring the historical background, the foundations of Burma's artistic traditions, and the temple and pagoda arts of brick, stucco, sculpture, and painting, before embarking on a systematic survey of thedevelopment and evolution of Burma's major crafts, such as bronze and ironwork, wooden architecture, wood-carving, gold, silver, and jewellery, ceramics, lacquer, textiles and costume, books, paper, baskets, mats, and umbrellas.The author has lived and worked in Asia as a writer and educator for over twenty-five years and has written numerous articles and books about Asian arts and crafts.
Author | : Albert Fytche |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1787 |
Genre | : Burma |
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Author | : Thant Myint-U |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1324003308 |
How did one of the world’s "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor’s 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor’s 2018)? Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. World leaders such as Barack Obama ushered in waves of international support. Progress seemed inevitable. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider’s diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects how a singularly predatory economic system, fast-rising inequality, disintegrating state institutions, the impact of new social media, the rise of China next door, climate change, and deep-seated feelings around race, religion, and national identity all came together to challenge the incipient democracy. Interracial violence soared and a horrific exodus of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fixed international attention. Myint-U explains how and why this happened, and details an unsettling prognosis for the future. Burma is today a fragile stage for nearly all the world’s problems. Are democracy and an economy that genuinely serves all its people possible in Burma? In clear and urgent prose, Myint-U explores this question—a concern not just for the Burmese but for the rest of the world—warning of the possible collapse of this nation of 55 million while suggesting a fresh agenda for change.
Author | : Albert Fytche |
Publisher | : London C.K. Paul 1878. |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Burma |
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Author | : Albert Fytche |
Publisher | : London C.K. Paul 1878. |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Burma |
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Author | : Albert Fytche |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780243620920 |
Author | : Albert Fytche |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781358511097 |
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Author | : Richard Cockett |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300215983 |
Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country eventually ended up as one of the poorest countries in Asia, a byword for repression and ethnic violence. Richard Cockett spent years in the region as a correspondent for The Economist and witnessed firsthand the vicious sectarian politics of the Burmese government, and later, also, its surprising attempts at political and social reform. Cockett’s enlightening history, from the colonial era on, explains how Burma descended into decades of civil war and authoritarian government. Taking advantage of the opening up of the country since 2011, Cockett has interviewed hundreds of former political prisoners, guerilla fighters, ministers, monks, and others to give a vivid account of life under one of the most brutal regimes in the world. In many cases, this is the first time that they have been able to tell their stories to the outside world. Cockett also explains why the regime has started to reform, and why these reforms will not go as far as many people had hoped. This is the most rounded survey to date of this volatile Asian nation.