Michael W Charney: 3 books
Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia
Burma 1941-1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the initial resistance of local groups of colonial railwaymen to such metropolitan innovations.
Michael W. Charney...
by Professor Michael W. Charney
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, was denied her victory. She has been under house-arrest ever since. Now an economic satellite and...
Chinese Migrants Abroad
Cultural, Educational, and Social Dimensions of the Chinese Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth. Events that followed, such as the transfer of Hong Kong and Macau to the People's...