Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon by Elizabeth Rush

by Elizabeth Rush

In 2010, the tectonic plates beneath the junta-controlled Myanmar started to shift. As the military regime began to loosen its reigns on power it auctioned off 80% of the country's state-owned assets and earmarked hundreds of buildings in downtown Yangon for demolition and redevelopment. This opaque but surely profitable fire sale would profoundly reshape the country's economic landscape and the lives of those who had long called the former colonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934159441
• ISBN13: 9781934159446
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Global Directions/Things Asian Press
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 15.8" x 10.8"