Golden Parasol
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A Daughter S Memoir Of Burma
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Author : Wendy Law-Yone
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-29
A Daughter S Memoir Of Burma written by Wendy Law-Yone and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-29 with History categories.
Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and overthrew the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma. On the eve of Wendy's studies abroad, Ed Law-Yone was arrested and The Nation shut down. Wendy herself was briefly imprisoned. After his release, Ed fled to Thailand with his family, where he formed a government-in-exile and tried, unsuccessfully, to foment a revolution. Exiled to America with his wife and children, Ed never gave up hope that Burma would one day adopt a new democratic government. Though he died disappointed, he left in his daughter's care an illuminating trove of papers documenting the experiences of an eccentric, ambitious, humorous, and determined patriot, vividly recounting the realities of colonial rule, Japanese occupation, postwar reconstruction, and military dictatorship. This memoir tells the twin histories of Law-Yone's kin and his country, a nation whose vicissitudes continue to intrigue the world.
The Girl With The Golden Parasol
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Author : Uday Prakash
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-05-14
The Girl With The Golden Parasol written by Uday Prakash and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-14 with Fiction categories.
DIVA novel of dauntless love, corruption, and the bitterness of the ancient caste system that prevails in contemporary India/div
Golden Parasol
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Author : Wendy Law-Yone
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-06-12
Golden Parasol written by Wendy Law-Yone and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with Burma categories.
âe~Die, and itâe(tm)s the vile earth; live, and itâe(tm)s the golden parasol,âe(tm) went the old Burmese saying. Why not aim for the pinnacle with everything they had? The vile earth would be theirs soon enough. A year after Burmaâe(tm)s military coup in 1962, Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of the influential newspaper, The Nation, was arrested and his newspaper shut down. Eventually, his teenaged daughter Wendy was also imprisoned before managing to escape the country. Ed spent five years as a political prisoner, but the moment he was freed he set about trying âe" unsuccessfully âe" to stage a revolution, and never gave up hope for the restoration of democracy in Burma. Exiled in America, he died disappointed âe" though not before entrusting to his daughter Wendy his papers and unpublished memoirs: of a career that had spanned the full sweep of modern Burmese history âe" from colonial rule to independence; from the era of parliamentary democracy to the military coup that would usher in decades of totalitarian rule. Now, some forty years later, as Burma enters another period of transition, Wendy Law-Yone has honoured her fatherâe(tm)s legacy by setting his remarkable career in a larger, more personal, story. The result is Golden Parasol, a unique portrait of a patriot, his family, and a nation whose vicissitudescontinue to intrigue the world.
Golden Parasol
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Author : Wendy Law-Yone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Golden Parasol written by Wendy Law-Yone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Burma categories.
At the time of Burma's military coup in 1962, Wendy Law-Yone was fifteen. A year later, her father Ed Law-Yone, daredevil proprietor of The Nation newspaper, was arrested and his newspaper shut down. Eventually, Wendy was herself briefly imprisoned before managing to escape the country. Ed would spend five years as a political prisoner. But from the moment he was freed he set about forming a government-in-exile in neighbouring Thailand. There he tried, unsuccessfully, to stage a revolution. Yet even after emigrating to America, he never gave up hope for the restoration of democracy in Burma. He died disappointed - but not before placing in his daughter's hands an extraordinary bequest. Ed had asked Wendy for help in editing his papers, but year after year she avoided the daunting task. When at last she found the confidence to take up the neglected manuscript, she discovered a captivating saga. Here was the forceful testimony of an ambitious, audacious, idiosyncratic and above all determined patriot whose career had spanned Burma under colonial rule, under Japanese occupation, through the turbulence of the post-war years, and into the catastrophe of a military dictatorship. The result of this discovery is Golden Parasol: a unique portrait of Burma, a nation whose vicissitudes continue to intrigue the world. It is also a powerfully evocative family memoir: a daughter's journey of reconciliation that illuminates the twin histories of country and kin.
The Girl With The Golden Parasol
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Author : Udaya Prakāśa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-01-01
The Girl With The Golden Parasol written by Udaya Prakāśa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with categories.
Uday Prakash, One Of India S Most Original And Audacious Writers In Hindi, Explores The Relationship Between Politics And Power And Its Effect On Ordinary People In This Vivid, Unconventional Novel. Rahul, A Student Of Anthropology In A Small University Town In Madhya Pradesh, Falls In Love With Anjali, The Girl With The Golden Parasol. In An Effort To Be Closer To Her He Transfers To The Hindi Department But Gets Caught In A Growing Nexus Of Power And Casteism That Is Taking Over The University. Can Rahul And Anjali S Love Survive The Violence That Surrounds Them? Or Will Society Gain Victory, Thus Reinforcing Its Order? This Excellent Translation By Jason Grunebaum Retains The Novel S Controversial Tone And Remains True To The Original.
Kalhana S Rajatarangini
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Author : Kalhaṇa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Kalhana S Rajatarangini written by Kalhaṇa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
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Heaven Slaughtering Sovereign
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Author : Qi LianXue
language : en
Publisher: Funstory
Release Date : 2020-05-24
Heaven Slaughtering Sovereign written by Qi LianXue and has been published by Funstory this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-24 with Fiction categories.
The mysterious youth had a slim chance of survival. Killing the black dragon, forming a spirit monkey, eating the spirit fruit by mistake, all of this greatly increased his strength. From then on, he would tread on a path that defied the heavens! Since there is no path to heaven and earth, I shall kill the heavens and destroy the earth, and restore the true face of the world ... Immortals and Buddha are merciless. If I were to continue on the path of ruthlessness, I will not take the normal path. I will destroy the Heavenly Dreams in the Sacred Diagram ...
Athens And Persia In The Fifth Century Bc
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Author : Margaret C. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-08-19
Athens And Persia In The Fifth Century Bc written by Margaret C. Miller and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-19 with Art categories.
First comprehensive collection of evidence of the relations between Athens and Persia in fifth century BC.
Landscapes Of Realism
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Author : Svend Erik Larsen
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Landscapes Of Realism written by Svend Erik Larsen and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary investigation of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this second volume shows in its four core essays and twenty-four case studies four major pathways through the landscapes of realism: The psychological pathways focusing on emotion and memory, the referential pathways highlighting the role of materiality, the formal pathways demonstrating the dynamics of formal experiments, and the geographical pathways exploring the worlding of realism through the encounters between European and non-European languages from the nineteenth century to the present.This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount:
Metalwork And Material Culture In The Islamic World
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Author : Venetia Porter
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-06-29
Metalwork And Material Culture In The Islamic World written by Venetia Porter and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-29 with Art categories.
The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge range of artefacts and monuments from the minute to the grandiose, from ceramic pots to the great mosques. Here, Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen assemble leading experts in the field to examine both the objects themselves and the ways in which they reflect their historical, cultural and economic contexts. With a focus on metalwork, this volume includes an important new study of Mosul metalwork and presents recent discoveries in the fields of Fatimid, Mamluk and Qajar metalwork. By examining architecture, ceramics, ivories and textiles, seventeenth-century Iranian painting and contemporary art, the book explores a wide range of artistic production and historical periods from the Umayyad caliphate to the modern Middle East. This rich and detailed volume makes a significant contribution to the fields of Art History, Architecture and Islamic Studies, bringing new objects to light, and shedding new light on old objects.