Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts

by Thomas Kren and J. Paul Getty Museum

Studies on Southeast Asia 47 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892364459
• ISBN13: 9780892364459
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.8" x 11.3"