A Man Like Him: Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung (Studies on Southeast Asia) - Hardcover

Kyaw Ma Ma Lay, Journal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087727777X ISBN 13: 9780877277774

Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Journal Kaw Ma Ma Lay, U Chit Maung's widow, was the co-publisher of Journal Kyaw and editor for both the Journal Kyaw and Pyi-thu hit-taing papers, vice chair of the Women's Pen Club, editor of Writers' Magazine, chair of the Union of Myanmar Journalists Association, and secretary of the Union of Myanmar Writers' Club. Ma Thanegi is a freelance writer and painter born and educated in Myanmar. She has written many articles and over ten books. Her chief interests are the cultural history and ethnic groups of Myanmar, and Burmese arts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 087727777X
• ISBN 13: 9780877277774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 205