A Man Like Him: Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung

by Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877277478
• ISBN13: 9780877277477
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher