No Time for Dreams

Living in Burma under Military Rule

Carolyn Wakeman, San San Tin (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2009
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-5703-1 (ISBN)

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Compelling images of cinnamon-robed monks confronting the guns and clubs of Burma's military junta outraged the world in September 2007. Then communications links were cut, and curfews, interrogations, midnight raids, beatings, and arrests crushed the remnants of defiance. Tragically, it had all happened before. No Time for Dreams narrates a remarkable woman's search over four decades for independence and purpose as repression spreads throughout her country, once known as the Golden Land.

Inspired by the legacy of her father, Ba Tin's struggle against British colonialism beginning in the 1930s, San San Tin infuses her journey from school girl to journalist and, briefly, to businesswoman with an unbroken spirit of resistance. Offering a compassionate insider's view of politics, culture, religion, and family during nearly half a century of unrelenting dictatorship, this riveting personal story traces an arc of decline to reveal the bitter fate of a once-prosperous and cosmopolitan society.

Carolyn Wakeman is professor at the University of California Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where she directs its Asia Pacific Project. San San Tin is an international broadcaster at Radio Free Asia and a freelance writer and poet. Emma Larkin is the pseudonym of an American writer based in Bangkok and the author of Finding George Orwell in Burma.

Chapter 1: Strangers in the Night
Chapter 2: Turning Point
Chapter 3: Spreading Socialism
Chapter 4: Lessons in Literacy
Chapter 5: Inside the Bureaucracy
Chapter 6: Signs of Unrest
Chapter 7: Cleaning the Ranks
Chapter 8: Reporting as a Woman
Chapter 9: Mounting Costs
Chapter 10: Political Training
Chapter 11: Confrontation
Chapter 12: Bullets at the Pagoda
Chapter 13: Reprisals
Chapter 14: Displacement
Chapter 15: Relocation
Chapter 16: Corruption

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.3.2009
Reihe/Serie	Asian Voices
Einführung	Emma Larkin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 238 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7425-5703-0 / 0742557030
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-5703-1 / 9780742557031
Zustand	Neuware