About this title: Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. . This collection of writings reflects Aung San Suu Kyi's greatest hopes and fears for her people and her concern about the need for international cooperation, and gives poignant and humorous ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1996-03-01
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
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Edition: Rev Sub
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1996-03-01
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1996-03-01
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. A very nice copy. The pages are clean and unmarked. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Revised Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sticker back cover.; 13 x 20 cm.; pg. xxxi, 374, [12] pg. of plates; Foreword to the first edition by Vaclav Havel; foreword to the second edition by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Edited with an introduction by Michael Aris, illustrations, notes, index. "This collection of writings, edited by her husband, Michael Aris, reflects Aung San Suu Kyi's beliefs, hopes and fears for her people. Composed before her present incarceration, it ranges from a portrait of her father ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1995-11-01
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 416 pages. (416 pages) aung san suu kyi, human rights activist and leader of burma's national league for democracy, was detained in 1989 by the ruling military junta and remains under house arrest in rangoon. this collection of writings reflects suu kyi's hopes and fears for her people. 12 b&w photos, index (Paperback) read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 05/10/1995
ISBN-13:9780140253177ISBN:0140253173
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"Excellent Book. A number of my most favourite parts in the book was the 1988 Shwedagon Speech of Aung San Suu Kyi; the Acceptance Speech of Alexander Aris, delivered on behalf of her mother, Aung San Suu Kyi, after winning the 1991 Nobel Prize, and the three essays written by the Democracy leader herself, titled, "In Quest of Democracy,""In The Eye of Revolution," and the origin of the book's title, "Freedom from Fear."
"Collection of Aung San Suu Kyi's writings: about culture, history, current events of Burma.
My favorite article in the collection, "My Father," is her account of the revolutionary leader Aung San, her father, and his involvement with the movement for independence in the 1930's and 1940's. She compellingly links the independence movement with the deep-seated Theravada Buddhist beliefs of Burma and Aung San himself. From reading I felt like the independence movement was a culturally organic process consistent with the desires of a great majority of people, across a number of diverse cultural groups, pretty cool.
Aung San, according to his daughter, seemed to be a great unifier who could bring so many different cultures together for a nationally Burmese cause.
In particular I was struck by her descriptions of a people's military, of young men marching in the streets of their communities with pride, and that the community looks on the military with pride because their existence has been mandated by the people.
I admire the consistency of her political positions based on the teachings of Theravada Buddhism.
If you read all the selections, you can begin to gain some insight on the author, but this is more about Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi's political stances and rationale than about Aung San Suu Kyi herself.
I'd recommend this collection as an introduction to Burmese culture, history, and current events."
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