Further Details Title: Repossessing Shanland Condition: New Subtitle: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred Author: Jane M. Ferguson Format: Paperback Type: Paperback EAN: 9780299333041 ISBN: 9780299333041 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, History Release Date: 30/10/2022 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 18mm Item Weight: 194g Book Series: New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies Release Year: 2022 Description: 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 Army, have fought for independence from Myanmar. Refugees numbering in the hundreds of thousands fled to Thailand to escape the conflict, despite struggling against oppressive citizenship laws there. Several decades of continuous rebellion have created a vacuum in which literati and politicians have constructed a virtual Shan state that lives on in popular media, rock music, and Buddhist ritual. Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing. |