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Author:   Eric Tagliacozzo (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University) ,  Wen-Chin Chang (Associate Research Fellow, Associate Research Fellow, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780199335046

ISBN 10:   0199335044
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   17 April 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang Introduction: Burmese Lives in a Divided State I. The Specter of Hardship 1. Mandy Sadan The Extra-ordinariness of Ordinary Lives 2. Pascal Khoo-Thwe The Kayan Padaung Community in Phekhon II. Negotiating with the State 3. Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière A Woman of Mediation 4. Eric Tagliacozzo Burmese and Muslim: Islam and the Hajj in the Sangha State III. Ways of Escape 5. Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu Recounting, Resistance, and Reflection: An Analysis of a Burmese Classical Musician's Narrative 6. James C. Scott Dr. U Tin Win, Escape Artist IV. At Burma's Margins 7. Maxime Boutry The Maung Aye's Legacy: Burmese and Moken Encounters in the Southern Borderlands of Myanmar, 1987-2007 8. Wen-Chin Chang By Sea and by Land: Stories of Two Chinese Traders V. Ethnicity and the Self 9. Ma Thida A Mixed Identity, a Mixed Career 10. Karin Eberhardt A Life in Service of Change 11. Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung From the ""Loyal"" to the ""Revolutionary"" Karen: Looking at Burma's Post-Independent Eras"

Reviews

Burmese Lives succeeds in adopting personal narrative — a rarely used methodology — in the study of contemporary Myanmar, examining the interactions between the narrators and the contexts in which the narrators live, and leading readers to know more about the multifaceted realities of Myanmar history. * Kai Chen, Political Studies Review *

Burmese Lives succeeds in adopting personal narrative - a rarely used methodology - in the study of contemporary Myanmar, examining the interactions between the narrators and the contexts in which the narrators live, and leading readers to know more about the multifaceted realities of Myanmar history. Kai Chen, Political Studies Review

Burmese Lives succeeds in adopting personal narrative - a rarely used methodology - in the study of contemporary Myanmar, examining the interactions between the narrators and the contexts in which the narrators live, and leading readers to know more about the multifaceted realities of Myanmar history. * Kai Chen, Political Studies Review *

Author Information

Wen-Chin Chang is Associate Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. She is a native of Tainan, Taiwan and a PhD graduate of the University of Leuven Belgium. Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University, and a PhD graduate of Yale University. Both have been working in Southeast Asian Studies for some two decades.

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