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Repossessing Shanland : Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred /
Around five million people across Southeast Asia identify as Shan. Though the Shan people were promised an independent state in the 1947 Union of Burma constitution, successive military governments blocked their liberation. From 1958 onward, insurgency movements, including the Shan United Revolution...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The tale of the Great Tiger King
- Introduction
- 1. Passport to ancient Shanland
- 2. A cold war fusion of elite ideals with an armed insurgency
- 3. Revolutionary ink and the Shan insurgent culture industries
- 4. Shanland during the reign of the Heroin King
- 5. Little brother is exploiting you
- 6. We are siamese (if you please)
- 7. Rockin' in the Shan World
- 8. Future Shan Kings or ethnic poster children
- Conclusion: Finding the Shan nation, building a Shan state.