<div dir="auto"><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Dear colleagues,</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Here's a book that may contain the names of some old friends if you're a long-time Burma hand. In any case, it's worth keeping for reference.</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Anon. 1961. <i>Who's who in Burma 1961</i>. Rangoon, Burma: People's Literature Committee and House. (220 pp.)</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_chip gmail_drive_chip" dir="auto" style="min-height:18px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245);padding:5px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);max-width:375px;margin-top:8px;margin-bottom:8px">
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</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">This copy is scanned from a facsimile edition purchased at TAB Books & Arts at Hledan Center in Yangon, with the curious number 99 on the spine. There is no stated author. There are six pages of errata at the beginning, and I have only used them to pencil in corrections for the first few pages; the other ones will have to be checked against the errata individually. </div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Entries are ordered alphabetically by the last word of each name, since Burmese names typically don't have surnames. Note, however, that most of the alphabetized "last" names still come last in the name rather than being pre-posed with a comma. (Western and Indian names are the exception.)</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Pages 215-220 contain a "supplement", i.e., probably entries that made it in after the main body of the book was already typeset.</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">The front matter states that the editors planned to do a new edition every three years,with the next one being in 1964, but I'm not sure whether they did or not, since the government changed in 1962, after which there were more restrictions on printing.</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Highlights include:<br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">- Saw Butler (p.16), Karen who commanded the Kachin Levees in Putao during WWII in 1942-43 and later became a government official<br>- U Vum Ko Hau (p.43), a Chin diplomat who later wrote lengthy memoirs entitled <i>Profile of a Burma Frontier Man</i>.<br>- Daw Mi Mi Khaing (p.60), an educator who wrote books such as <i>Burmese Family</i>, <i>The People of the Golden Land</i>, and <i>Men and Women in Burma</i><br>- Duwa Zau Lawn (p.75), another Kachin politician, who signed the Panglong Agreement in 1947 and was head of Kachin State in 1953 and 1958<br>- Dagon Khin Khin Lay (p.76), a female writer of over 500 novels and short stories<br>- U Shan Lone (p.78), Secretary of the Ministry of Kachin State in the 1960s<br>- Sama Duwa Sinwa Nawng (p.115), a Kachin politician who was the first head of Kachin State after independence in 1948<br>- U Nu (p.117), first Prime Minister of Burma<br>- Sao Saimöng (p.138), a Shan government official who wrote "Shan Folk Tales" (Burma Research Society Journal) and was married to Daw Mi Mi Khaing<br>- U Zan Hta Sin [Zv́rtaq Søn] (p.155), a Rawang politician who became Kachin State Minister and Head of Kachin State in 1956<br>- U Thant (p.169), a diplomat who became UN Secretary-General in 1961, and grandfather of historian Thant Myint-U<br><div>- U Pe Maung Tin (p.184), professor of Burmese, Pali, and Far Eastern Studies at the University of Rangoon, and chairman of the Burma Historical Research Commission<br><div>- Dr. Ba U (p.196), president and chief justice of Burma<br></div><div></div></div><div><div>- General Ne Win (p.202), later the leader of the military government from 1962 onward<br></div><div></div></div><div></div></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">I have a facsimile of another book, also entitled <i>Who's Who in Burma</i>, but published in 1927 during British colonial days, which even has photos, but I need to find time to scan it in. </div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Hope someone finds this useful!</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto"><br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Nathan Straub<br></div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Secondary Teacher and Moonlight Linguist</div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" dir="auto">Promise - An International School, Yangon</div></div>