Burmese Lives Ordinary Life Stories Under the Burmese Regime

Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University, and a PhD graduate of Yale University. Both have been working in Southeast Asian Studies for some two decades.
Wen-Chin Chang is Associate Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. She is a native of Tainan, Taiwan and a PhD graduate of the University of Leuven Belgium.

Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University, and a PhD graduate of Yale University. Both have been working in Southeast Asian Studies for some two decades.

Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang
Introduction: Burmese Lives in a Divided State

I. The Specter of Hardship
1. Mandy Sadan
The Extra-ordinariness of Ordinary Lives

2. Pascal Khoo-Thwe
The Kayan Padaung Community in Phekhon

II. Negotiating with the State
3. Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière
A Woman of Mediation

4. Eric Tagliacozzo
Burmese and Muslim: Islam and the Hajj in the Sangha State

III. Ways of Escape
5. Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu
Recounting, Resistance, and Reflection: An Analysis of a Burmese Classical Musician's Narrative

6. James C. Scott
Dr. U Tin Win, Escape Artist

IV. At Burma's Margins
7. Maxime Boutry
The Maung Aye's Legacy: Burmese and Moken Encounters in the Southern Borderlands of Myanmar, 1987-2007

8. Wen-Chin Chang
By Sea and by Land: Stories of Two Chinese Traders

V. Ethnicity and the Self
9. Ma Thida
A Mixed Identity, a Mixed Career

10. Karin Eberhardt
A Life in Service of Change

11. Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
From the "Loyal" to the "Revolutionary" Karen: Looking at Burma's Post-Independent Eras