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No time for dreams : living in Burma under military rule / Carolyn Wakeman and San San Tin ; introduction by Emma Larkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakeman, Carolyn.
- Series:
- Asian voices.
- Asian voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women journalists--Burma--Biography.
- Women journalists.
- Burma--Politics and government--1948-.
- Burma.
- Tin, San San, 1950-.
- Tin, San San.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No Time for Dreams narrates a remarkable woman's search for independence and purpose over four decades while repression spreads in Burma and the shadow of military rule lengthens. 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 poet with an unbroken spirit of resistance. Offering the first insider's view of politics, culture, religion, and family over nearly half a century of unrelenting dictatorship, this riveting personal story traces an arc of decline to reveal the b
- Contents:
- Strangers in the night
- No turning back
- Spreading socialism
- Student affairs
- Lessons in literacy
- Inside the bureaucracy
- Crackdown and compromise
- Roads leading nowhere
- Reporting as a woman
- Mounting costs
- Political training
- Confrontation
- Bullets at the pagoda
- Reprisals
- Turning to ash
- Relocation
- Corruption.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-49599-2
- 9786612495991
- 0-7425-5719-7
- OCLC:
- 301746501
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