| Description |
xxxi, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-[448]) and index. |
| Contents |
1: Land and father -- At the Shwedagon -- The Shwe Pyidaw -- After the Mongols -- The Salami wars -- British Burma -- Saturday's child -- From campus oddball to national hero (aged 20) -- '1300': the year that never was -- Desperate times, desperate remedies -- Bo Teza: reluctant collaborator -- Snakes, ladders and a wife -- Old enemies, new friends -- Getting there -- 2: The daughter -- 19th July -- The golden rain is brown -- An Indian Idyll: the 'ugly one' takes wing -- The daughter of some or other Burmese general -- Things fall apart -- Between three continents -- Thimphu, Kyoto, Simla -- 3: Sixteen months -- Number one and number nine -- White bridge, red bridge -- 8.8.88 -- Shadow of the hundred flowers -- Digging in -- Squaring up -- Suu Kyi's tightrope -- Danubyu -- The door slams shut -- 4: The political Madonna -- Egg on the generals' faces -- Soldiers at the gate -- Famously alone -- Freedom on a leash -- The saddest thing -- The widower road to -- Back to Mandalay -- The monks' revolt. |
| Summary |
A portrait of the Burmese activist minister and non-violence advocate describes the factors that contributed to her house arrest in 1989, her work to promote non-aggressive civil resistance, and her receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. |
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Aung San Suu Kyi.
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National League for Democracy (Burma)
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Women political activists -- Burma -- Biography.
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Women political prisoners -- Burma -- Biography.
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Burma -- Politics and government -- 1988-
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Political activists -- Burma -- Biography -- 20th century.
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ʼOṅʻ Chanʻʺ, Builʻ khyupʻ, 1915-1947.
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Nationalists -- Burma -- Biography.
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Burma -- Politics and government -- 1824-1948.
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| ISBN |
9781602392663 alkaline paper |
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1602392668 alkaline paper |
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