Monday, February 10, 2025

Lovely re-discovery--Account of Michael Symes to the Kingdom of Ava--1795.

https://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/Symes-1827-Embassy_to_Ava-Vol.I-tu.pdf
I saw the original of this in the Social Science Library in the 1960s-70s, but I wasn't much interested in Burmese history at that time, too many problems in the present.
My interest now is only to write fiction--like Dalrymple's White Moghuls.

Former 1988 activist--US scholar MinZin arrested in China--NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/politics/china-arrests-us-scholar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.plA.-7tb.2M_-DNpSDzOv&smid=em-share