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A Man Like Him

Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung

Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay author Ma Thanegi translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Published:13th Nov '08

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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.

ISBN: 9780877277774

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 21mm

Weight: 907g

205 pages