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Perfect hostage : a life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's prisoner of conscience
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- Creator
- Justin Wintle
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, NY : Skyhorse Pub., [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xxxi, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1602392668, 9781602392663
- OCLC
- ocn184925007
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [441]-[448]) and index.
- 1: Land and father -- At the Shwedagon -- The Shwe Pyidaw -- After the Mongols -- The Salami wars -- British Burma -- Saturday's child -- From campus oddball to national hero (aged 20) -- '1300': the year that never was -- Desperate times, desperate remedies -- Bo Teza: reluctant collaborator -- Snakes, ladders and a wife -- Old enemies, new friends -- Getting there -- 2: The daughter -- 19th July -- The golden rain is brown -- An Indian Idyll: the 'ugly one' takes wing -- The daughter of some or other Burmese general -- Things fall apart -- Between three continents -- Thimphu, Kyoto, Simla -- 3: Sixteen months -- Number one and number nine -- White bridge, red bridge -- 8.8.88 -- Shadow of the hundred flowers -- Digging in -- Squaring up -- Suu Kyi's tightrope -- Danubyu -- The door slams shut -- 4: The political Madonna -- Egg on the generals' faces -- Soldiers at the gate -- Famously alone -- Freedom on a leash -- The saddest thing -- The widower road to -- Back to Mandalay -- The monks' revolt
Subjects
- Aung San Suu Kyi.
- ʼOṅʻ Chanʻʺ, Builʻ khyupʻ, 1915-1947.
- National League for Democracy (Burma)
- Women political activists -- Burma -- Biography.
- Women political prisoners -- Burma -- Biography.
- Political activists -- Burma -- 20th century. -- Biography.
- Nationalists -- Burma -- Biography.
- Burma -- Politics and government -- 1988-
- Burma -- Politics and government -- 1824-1948.