Burmese Lives Ordinary Life Stories Under the Burmese Regime

by Chang, Wen-Chin; Tagliacozzo, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780199366750
• ISBN10: 0199366756
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2014-03-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

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.

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. B?n?dicte Brac de la Perri?re
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