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The
Voice of Hope:
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has become an international symbol of struggle
against repression and brutality. In The Voice of Hope, she
emerges as a human being--a mother of two sons as well as an inspirational
human rights advocate and all-around moral compass. Once a soft-spoken
scholar living in England, this daughter of a Burmese military hero
catapulted to prominence as the spokesperson for her country's beleaguered
democracy movement. Even when imprisoned by Burma's ruling junta,
she continued to work for freedom and human rights, eventually winning
the Nobel Peace Prize and attracting the world's attention to the
plight of Burmese dissidents. The Voice of Hope chronicles
nine months' worth of her conversations with British-born Alan Clements,
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former Buddhist monk. The two discuss love, truth, power, compassion,
and freedom from fear as well as Aung San Suu Kyi's own brand of activist
Buddhism. In the process, a portrait emerges of a profoundly religious
as well as political leader, a woman who used years of house arrest
to develop her meditative practice, mindfulness, and spiritual strength. |
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Letters
from Burma:
Human-rights
activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, Aung
San Suu Kyi was sentenced to six years' house arrest in Rangoon in
1989 by the ruling military junta SLORC. She paints a vivid, poignant
yet optimistic picture of her native land in this collection of writings
from her imprisonment. Aung San Suu Kyi won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize
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Lady : Aung San Suu Kyi's first-ever biography bends over
backward in the name of "balance." Like almost all visitors
to this embattled country, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Barbara Victor
entered Burma (now called Myanmar) under the auspices of its government,
a brutal dictatorship that regularly jails and tortures its dissidents.
The situation presents certain intrinsic dilemmas, considering that
Victor was never able to interview the subject of her book, the most
famous dissident of all: Aung San Suu Kyi, the beloved "Lady"
of Burma's democracy movement. Nonetheless, Victor provides an excellent
overview of Aung San Suu Kyi's career and achievements, in particular
her turbulent early life. Her account makes clear the strong influence
of Aung San Suu Kyi's father, a revered military hero who was assassinated
in 1947 in the struggle for Burmese independence when she was |
only two years old.Especially in contrast to Aung San Suu Kyi's almost
saintly self-sacrifice, the Burmese junta (cursed with the movie-villain
acronym SLORC) tends to come off as almost cartoonishly evil. Victor's
access to top-level Burmese generals precludes such simplistic analysis,
but what's fascinating is how the regime consistently betrays itself,
exposing its own corruption and moral decay even as it twists the
truth to serve its own ends.
The New York Times Book Review, Judith Shapiro
The Lady is ultimately less about Aung San Suu Kyi than about the
junta, despite well-researched chapters on Aung San Suu Kyi's early
career.
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Fearless
Voice of Burma:Aung
San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Prize winner and a leader in Burma's struggle
for democracy, is profiled in this biography based on personal interviews.
Suu Kyi, the daughter of a popular Burmese politician who was assassinated,
married an Englishman and was living in Cambridge when, during a visit
home, she decided to stay and help the Burmese struggle for democracy.
Within a year, she was put under house arrest but continued her fight
from captivity, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. The book is
at its best when chronicling this stirring time. Unfortunately, before
readers get there, they must wade through a long history of Burmese
politics that is probably necessary for background (although less
detail would have aided readability). Personal photographs, both in
color and black and white, add to the appeal.
A thorough, well-documented effort. Ilene Cooper
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From
Kirkus Reviews
A solid and informative entry in the Newsmakers Biographies series.
Almost from birth Aung San Suu Kyi was involved in the political
movement to free Burma from first the British and later from a series
of corrupt and repressive regimes. Her father, a general in the
Burmese army during WW II, was a prime mover in the struggle to
free his country from the British and had just about come to terms
with them when he was brutally assassinated. Having lost both her
father and any hope of freedom, Suu Kyi resolved to carry on in
his place. Stewart covers Suu Kyi's marriage and travels, her experience
on the world political scene, the events that took her back to Rangoon
in 1988, and the reasons that she remains there, now the recipient
of the Nobel Prize for peace, to this day. The tone is admiring
but balanced in this sturdy, well-researched volume, illustrated
with both full-color and black-and-white photographs. (notes, bibliography,
index) (Nonfiction. 10+) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates,
LP. All rights reserved.The
author, Whitney Stewart , December 26, 1997
Aung San Suu Kyi IS the voice of hope for Burma
I hope children and adults will read this biography of such a compassionate
woman in Burma. As of Dec 1997, she is still restricted in her democracy
movement.
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Freedom
from Fear and Other Writings: A
new collection of writings by the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner includes
her acceptance speech as delivered by her son during her six-year
incarceration and numerous reminiscences on her role in politics and
her fear for her people. |
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Standing
Up for Democracy in Burma (Women Changing the World): A
biography which traces the life of the Burmese political activist
who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. |
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Prospects
for a Democratic Future: Since Burma's current despotic military
rulers took power in 1989, this pivotal, troubled, and bitterly divided
Southeast Asian nation has rejected important opportunities for political
and economic liberalization. The ruling State Law and Order Restoration
Council (SLORC) has repressed Nobel Peace Price winner and opposition
leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her fellow democracy advocates, rejecting
their electoral victory in 1990. The SLORC had reached a wary truce
with ethnic minority groups, and has recently become a member of the
economically important Association of Southeast Asian Nations. This
book examines the origins and consequences of Burma's current policies
from military, political, social, and economic perspectives. |
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analyzes the Asian decision to "constructively engage" Burma,
especially in economic affairs, versus the position of the United
States and many other Western countries to treat Burma as a pariah.
Other chapters focus on the drug trade (Burma produces more than 60
percent of the world's heroin), the growing role of China as Burma's
military and economic "big brother," political culture and
democratic traditions, the unsustainable nature of current economic
growth, shortfalls in education and health systems, and Burma's potential
for foreign investment. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Ingram
Since Burma's current military rulers took power in 1989, this pivotal,
troubled, and bitterly divided Southeast Asian nation has rejected
important opportunities for political and economic liberalization.
This book examines the origins and consequences of Burma's current
policies from military, political, social, and economic perspectives--and
analyzes Burma's stand with regard to the United States and other
Western countries. |
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Whispers
at the Pagoda:Nearly forty years ago, a military government
slammed the doors shut on Burma (Myanmar), virtually cutting it off
from the outside world. A decade ago, a nationwide pro-democracy movement
was violently crushed and the movement's leader, the Nobel laureate
Aung San Suu Kyi, was placed under house arrest. The stand-off continues
to this day. Through it all, outsiders have had only rare glimpses
of this beautiful Southeast Asian country, still largely untouched
by modern influence, as it struggles under the weight of a harsh and
repressive regime that has one of the world's worst human rights records.
Intrigued to know more about the Burmese people whose voices have
long been silenced, American writer Julie Sell set out to understand
this little-known country through the stories of individuals. |
Traveling
from the literary circles of Rangoon to the rugged hill regions that are
officially off-limits to foreigners, the author met and interviewed people
from a cross-s! ! ection of society. They included famous scholars, journalists
and Buddhist monks, as well as former student democracy leaders who continue
their struggle from the remote jungle regions, and members of the minority
ethnic tribes who have suffered mass relocations, forced labor, and death
at the hands of the armed forces. Many interviews were held at potentially
serious risk to those involved, and all names have been changed to protect
them.
Whispers at the Pagoda: Portraits of Modern Burma provides rare insights
into the social, political and cultural issues that shape life in Burma
today. The book, which includes photographs, provides important context
for anyone interested in contemporary Asia, human rights issues, or cultural
affairs.
About
the Author
Julie Sell is an American writer who has worked and traveled in Asia for
more than a dozen years. She is a former journalist with the Asian Wall
Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune, and has also had
articles published by The New York Times, The South China Morning Post,
National Geographic News Service, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, among
others. Whispers at the Pagoda: Portraits of Modern Burma is her first
book.
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