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Myanmar Musings


Myanmar Musings is the world's leading podcast with researchers and thinkers on issues relating to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the interviewees/guests and do not necessarily accord with those of the host or the Myanmar Research Centre.

May 30, 2017

In this episode Alice Dawkins, a graduate of the Australian National University currently on a long-term study program in Myanmar, discusses the inimitable Professor Ting Tso-Shao and the state of Kengtung, Shan State, in the 1950s. Kengtung was not merely a "frontier" region of then "democratic" Burma, but was also a core polity deeply intertwined with Chinese and pan-Asian history. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this show are those of the interviewees/guests and do not necessarily accord with those of the host or the Myanmar Research Centre.