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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Yangon"”.
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Difficult history : saving Yangon from colonial nostalgia
… pressure for economic growth today. I focus on Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma), which has the world's largest collection of Victorian and Edwardian colonial architecture. Years of active neglect by the military government have preserved these aging structures, but this era is coming to an end …
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Revealing The Heart: The Popular Music Industry In Yangon, Burma
… popular music scene, which is centered in Yangon, Burma. The author attended concerts, rehearsals, recording sessions and music classes to develop the data discussed in the dissertation. She conducted seventy-seven individual interviews with members of the industry, including singers, …
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Rivers of Resistance: Aid, Activism and Energy in Cambodia and Myanmar
… out into the streets of Myanmar’s then capital, Yangon, as the military launched a coup that marked the beginning of Myanmar’s decades-long international isolation. In not dissimilar fashion, the Khmer Rouge marched into Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, on 17 April 1975, overthrowing the fledgling …
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Slums, Squatters and Urban Redevelopment Schemes in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore, 1894-1960
My research examines the interconnected histories of urbanism and urban development in port cities across South and Southeast Asia. Chapter one examines the effects of the third plague pandemic on the quotidian livelihoods and the built environments of the urban poor across Bombay, Hong Kong, and …