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State and Society in Modern Rangoon

Donald M Seekins

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  • 272 sidor
  • 2010
While most of Asias major cities are increasingly homogenized by rapid economic growth and cultural globalization, Rangoon, which is Burmas former capital and largest city, still bears the imprint of a unique and often turbulent history. It is the site of the Shwedagon Pagoda, a focus of Buddhist pilgrimage and devotion since the early second millennium C.E. that continues to play a major role in national life. In 1852, the British occupied Rangoon and made it their colonial capital, building a modern port and administrative center based on western designs. It became the capital of independent Burma in 1948, but in 2005 the State Peace and Development Council military junta established a new, heavily fortified capital at Naypyidaw, 320 kilometers north of the old capital. A major motive for the capital relocation was the regimes desire to put distance between itself and Rangoons historically restive population. Reacting to the huge anti-government demonstrations of "Democracy Summer" in 1988, the new military regime used massive violence to pacify the city and sought to transform it in line with its supreme goal of state security. However, the "Saffron Revolution" of September 2007 showed that Rangoons traditions of resistance reaching back to the colonial era are still very much alive.
  • Författare: Donald M Seekins
  • Illustratör: black and white 6 Tables 4 Line drawings, black and white 11 Halftones black and white 15 Illus
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780415318525
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-08-04
  • Förlag: Routledge