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Man Like Him, A
Portrait of the Burmese Journalist, Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung

Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay

Ma Thanegi, translator

SOSEA-47, 2008 , 205 pages. 978-0-87727-747-7 paperback $23.95, 978-0-87727-777-4 hardcover $46.95

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The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung (1912–1946), a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent of Britain in the late 1930s and the Japanese Occupation of the 1940s. The memoir is written by U Chit Maung’s wife, Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay, a resilient woman whose deep admiration and love for her uncompromising husband are captured here.

Journal Kaw Ma Ma Lay, U Chit Maung’s widow, was the co-publisher of Journal Kyaw and editor for both the Journal Kyaw and Pyi-thu hit-taing papers, vice chair of the Women’s Pen Club, editor of Writers’ Magazine, chair of the Union of Myanmar Journalists Association, and secretary of the Union of Myanmar Writers’ Club.

Ma Thanegi is a freelance writer and painter born and educated in Burma/Myanmar. She has written many articles and more than ten books. Her chief interests are the cultural history and ethnic groups of Myanmar, and Burmese arts.

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