KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

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.

KyiMayKaung

Monday, February 10, 2025

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

Some factual mistakes here--from Irrawaddy.

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