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Columbia University Press An adventure story, a love story, and a political memoir set against Burma's turbulent twentieth-century history. Read an excerpt      Read an interview with Wendy Law-Yone    Wendy Law-Yone's blog post, "Househunting in the Homeland,"   part 1, part 2       Reviews        Table of Contents   A Daughter's Memoir of Burma                  Wendy Law-Yone           Order Now and Save 30%! To save 30%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code DAULAW in the "Coupon Code" field at check out.*    The e-book of  A Daughter's Memoir of Burma is available wherever e-books are sold!   Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and overthrew the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises of a newly independent Burma. On the eve of Wendy's studies abroad, Ed Law-Yone was arrested and The Nation shut down. Wendy herself was briefly imprisoned. After his release, Ed fled to Thailand with his family, where he formed a government-in-exile and tried, unsuccessfully, to foment a revolution. Exiled to America with his wife and children, Ed never gave up hope that Burma would one day adopt a new democratic government. Though he died disappointed, he left in his daughter's care an illuminating trove of papers documenting the experiences of an eccentric, ambitious, humorous, and determined patriot, vividly recounting the realities of colonial rule, Japanese occupation, postwar reconstruction, and military dictatorship. This memoir tells the twin histories of Law-Yone's kin and his country, a nation whose vicissitudes continue to intrigue the world. Order Now and Save 30%!   $30.00 $21.00 Use discount code DAULAW at check-out Paper | 256 pages FOLLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

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