Wednesday, December 11, 2024

The Kangxi Emperor takes the state exams in secret. He learns that his tutor was placed as a spy by Oboi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fILzxW58C8s
FYI, in my Matriculation Exam I placed 5th in the whole of Burma.
My contemporary Frankie Ohn (Tin Hla) son of U Tin Ohn, brother of Tin Wa, Tin Bo, Tin Nyo--placed 1st.
He was a science student from Saint Paul's.
I was the only female and the only Arts student in the top 5.
In 1982, NW opened the Fulbright Scholarships to the W again, when his daughter failed her medical school entrance exams in London.
7 of us won awards, of which one geographer, one historian and I (economist) actually won our Ph.D degrees.
I was the only woman who did so among 3 women in total.
You can buy my dissertation on Proquest.
You can read a summary in Asian Survey.
Kyi May Kaung
12-11-2024

Remembering Danish Siddiqui--photo-journalist--breath taking photographs of fraught situations--Rest in Protest

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/07/16/1016852885/reuters-photographer-photojournalist-danish-siddiqui-killed-in-afghanistan