No time for dreams : living in Burma under military rule
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No time for dreams : living in Burma under military rule
（Asian voices）
Rowman & Littlefield, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Compelling images of cinnamon-robed monks confronting the guns and clubs of Burma's military junta outraged the world in September 2007. Then communications links were cut, and curfews, interrogations, midnight raids, beatings, and arrests crushed the remnants of defiance. Tragically, it had all happened before. No Time for Dreams narrates a remarkable woman's search over four decades for independence and purpose as repression spreads throughout her country, once known as the Golden Land.
Inspired by the legacy of her father, Ba Tin's struggle against British colonialism beginning in the 1930s, San San Tin infuses her journey from school girl to journalist and, briefly, to businesswoman with an unbroken spirit of resistance. Offering a compassionate insider's view of politics, culture, religion, and family during nearly half a century of unrelenting dictatorship, this riveting personal story traces an arc of decline to reveal the bitter fate of a once-prosperous and cosmopolitan society.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Strangers in the Night
Chapter 2: Turning Point
Chapter 3: Spreading Socialism
Chapter 4: Lessons in Literacy
Chapter 5: Inside the Bureaucracy
Chapter 6: Signs of Unrest
Chapter 7: Cleaning the Ranks
Chapter 8: Reporting as a Woman
Chapter 9: Mounting Costs
Chapter 10: Political Training
Chapter 11: Confrontation
Chapter 12: Bullets at the Pagoda
Chapter 13: Reprisals
Chapter 14: Displacement
Chapter 15: Relocation
Chapter 16: Corruption
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