Stock ID #179668 The Shan of Burma. Memoirs of a Shan Exile. CHAO TZANG YAWNGHWE.

The Shan of Burma. Memoirs of a Shan Exile.

Singapore. ISEAS. 2010. Reprint. Stock ID #179668

Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xvii + 276 pages, index, bibliography, glossary, appendices, from the library of Dr Andrew Selth with his name and chop on half title page, a very good paperback copy.

In this highly personal account, the author, the late Chao Tzang Yawnghwe, a son of the first President of the Union of Burma, tels of his youth and involvement in the Shan resistance movement. He gives his version of Shan history and explains the complexity of Shan politics covering the issues of autonomy, Shan-Burmese relations, opium, and other contraband trade. He discusses the personalities involved in the war that is now more than twenty years old. The final part of thsi book is a compendium of who's who in Shan history and politics.

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