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A Man Like Him : Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung / Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: 2008Description: 1 online resource (205 p.) : 4 illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781501719356
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.92 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- BIOGRAPHY OF JOURNAL KYAW U CHIT MAUNG -- BIOGRAPHY OF JOURNAL KYAW MA MA LAY -- INTRODUCTION -- A MAN LIKE HIM (THU-LO LU) -- CHAPTER 1. REPLY FROM MYANMAR ALIN -- CHAPTER 2. ABOUT MYSELF -- CHAPTER 3. "WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IT?" -- CHAPTER 4. FIRST MEETING -- CHAPTER 5. WHAT SORT OF STRANGE MAN WAS HE? -- CHAPTER 6. IN YANGON -- CHAPTER 7. AN UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT -- CHAPTER 8. WHAT FATE ORDAINED FROM TIMES PAST -- CHAPTER 9. STRANGE WORDS -- CHAPTER 10. A FALLEN MONK -- CHAPTER 11. THIS MAN -- CHAPTER 12. "MA TIN TIN..." -- CHAPTER 13. A BURDEN LIFTED -- CHAPTER 14. LIKE A MONK -- CHAPTER 15. THE FIRST SEVEN DAYS -- CHAPTER 16. ONE STRANGE MAN WHO BECAME AN EDITOR -- CHAPTER 17. "SHOULD I LEAVE YOU... ?" -- CHAPTER 18. WORST DAY -- CHAPTER 19. MY LONE JOURNEY -- CHAPTER 20. IS THE WORLD COMING TO AN END? -- CHAPTER 21. RULING BY THE PEN -- CHAPTER 22. BEHIND THE IRON SCREEN -- CHAPTER 23. A TIME OF CHAOS -- CHAPTER 24. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE -- CHAPTER 25. THE 1938 REBELLION -- CHAPTER 26. UPCOUNTRY -- CHAPTER 27. BIRTH OF JOURNAL KYAW -- CHAPTER 28. JOURNAL KYAW MA MA LAY -- CHAPTER 29. PERSONAL AFFAIRS -- CHAPTER 30. WAR -- CHAPTER 31. A TIME OF DEVASTATION -- CHAPTER 32. UNDERCOVER INTELLIGENCE -- CHAPTER 33. AFPFL -- CHAPTER 34. OUR CHILDREN -- CHAPTER 35. THE DIAMOND NECKLACE -- CHAPTER 36. THE END OF HIS LIFE -- CHAPTER 37. A MAN LIKE HIM -- APPENDIX A. THE REAL ORIGIN AND CAUSES OF THE BURMA REBELLION (1930-32) -- APPENDIX B. IT Is ALL IN THE STATE OF MIND -- APPENDIX C. ANTI-FASCIST PEOPLE'S FREEDOM LEAGUE STATEMENT
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- BIOGRAPHY OF JOURNAL KYAW U CHIT MAUNG -- BIOGRAPHY OF JOURNAL KYAW MA MA LAY -- INTRODUCTION -- A MAN LIKE HIM (THU-LO LU) -- CHAPTER 1. REPLY FROM MYANMAR ALIN -- CHAPTER 2. ABOUT MYSELF -- CHAPTER 3. "WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IT?" -- CHAPTER 4. FIRST MEETING -- CHAPTER 5. WHAT SORT OF STRANGE MAN WAS HE? -- CHAPTER 6. IN YANGON -- CHAPTER 7. AN UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT -- CHAPTER 8. WHAT FATE ORDAINED FROM TIMES PAST -- CHAPTER 9. STRANGE WORDS -- CHAPTER 10. A FALLEN MONK -- CHAPTER 11. THIS MAN -- CHAPTER 12. "MA TIN TIN..." -- CHAPTER 13. A BURDEN LIFTED -- CHAPTER 14. LIKE A MONK -- CHAPTER 15. THE FIRST SEVEN DAYS -- CHAPTER 16. ONE STRANGE MAN WHO BECAME AN EDITOR -- CHAPTER 17. "SHOULD I LEAVE YOU... ?" -- CHAPTER 18. WORST DAY -- CHAPTER 19. MY LONE JOURNEY -- CHAPTER 20. IS THE WORLD COMING TO AN END? -- CHAPTER 21. RULING BY THE PEN -- CHAPTER 22. BEHIND THE IRON SCREEN -- CHAPTER 23. A TIME OF CHAOS -- CHAPTER 24. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE -- CHAPTER 25. THE 1938 REBELLION -- CHAPTER 26. UPCOUNTRY -- CHAPTER 27. BIRTH OF JOURNAL KYAW -- CHAPTER 28. JOURNAL KYAW MA MA LAY -- CHAPTER 29. PERSONAL AFFAIRS -- CHAPTER 30. WAR -- CHAPTER 31. A TIME OF DEVASTATION -- CHAPTER 32. UNDERCOVER INTELLIGENCE -- CHAPTER 33. AFPFL -- CHAPTER 34. OUR CHILDREN -- CHAPTER 35. THE DIAMOND NECKLACE -- CHAPTER 36. THE END OF HIS LIFE -- CHAPTER 37. A MAN LIKE HIM -- APPENDIX A. THE REAL ORIGIN AND CAUSES OF THE BURMA REBELLION (1930-32) -- APPENDIX B. IT Is ALL IN THE STATE OF MIND -- APPENDIX C. ANTI-FASCIST PEOPLE'S FREEDOM LEAGUE STATEMENT

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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