Burmese Lives

Wen-Chin Chang is Associate Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. She is a native of Tainan, Taiwan and a PhD graduate of the University of Leuven Belgium. Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University, and a PhD graduate of Yale University. Both have been working in Southeast Asian Studies for some two decades.

• Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang ; Introduction: Burmese Lives in a Divided State ; I. The Specter of Hardship ; 1. Mandy Sadan ; The Extra-ordinariness of Ordinary Lives ; 2. Pascal Khoo-Thwe ; The Kayan Padaung Community in Pekhon, Southern Shan State, Burma ; II. Negotiating with the State ; 3 Benedicte Brac de la Perriere ; A Woman of Mediation ; 4 Eric Tagliacozzo ; Burmese and Muslim: Islam and the Hajj in the Sangha State ; III. Ways of Escape ; 5. Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu ; Recounting, Resistance, and Reflection: An Analysis of a Burmese Classical Musician's Narrative ; 6. James Scott ; Dr. U Tin Win, Escape Artist ; IV. At Burma's Margins ; 7. Maxime Boutry ; The Maung Aye's Legacy: Burmese and Moken Encounters in the Southern Borderlands of Myanmar, 1987-2007 ; 8. Wen-Chin Chang ; By Sea and by Land: Stories of Two Chinese Traders ; V. Ethnicity and the Self ; 9. Ma Thida ; A Mixed Identity, a Mixed Career ; 10. Karin Eberhardt ; At the Community's Service: A Transformational Life ; 11 Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung ; From the <"Loyal>" to the <"Revolutionary>" Karen: Looking at Burma's Post-Independent Eras through the Life of Maung Sin Kye

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