by David Eimer
U Raschid here
U Thein Naing here, here
U Thuriya here
U Vimala, abbot of Myazedi here
U Wirathu here, here, here, here
Uighurs (Chinese Muslims) here
Union Day (February 12th) here
Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP): Ar Kar votes for here; and Buddhist nationalism here, here; formed here; in Shan State here; silence on Muslim issues here; U Vimala supports here
United States of America: war on drugs here, here
United Wa State Army (UWSA) here, here, here, here
Wa people here, here, here, here, here
Wai Yan here, here
Wang Hsieo, Shan State here, here
Wells, H.G. here
Whipping Act (1909) here
White Bridge: students massacred here
White, Samuel here, here, here
William III (of Orange), king of Great Britain here
Win Min Than here
Wingate, Orde here
women: drug addicts here; as drug dealers here; labour here; melancholy here; and sexual harassment here; status and rights here, here; as university students here
World War II (1939–45) here, here, here
Xishuangbanna here
Yadana Lwin here
yama (methamphetamine pills) here, here, here
Yangon (formerly Rangoon): anti-Indian riots here; author visits here; boom and wealth here; British occupy here; British town planning here, here; buildings and conditions here, here, here, here, here; Chinese community and crime here; cinemas here, here; cosmopolitanism here; crime and police in here, here; damaged in war here; dogs in here, here, here; East India Company invades (1824) here; effect of Cyclone Nargis on here; émigrés return here; evacuated and devastated in war (1942) here; extent here; food here; Japanese abandon (1945) here, here; Japanese occupy (1942) here; Legislative Council here; life in here; limited entertainment here; low life cleaned up by junta here; modern traffic here; name here; neighbourhoods here, here, here; origins and growth here; population here, here, here; port here, here; poverty here; rents here; reputation as sin city here; Rohingya numbers in here; shanty settlements here; shanty-dwellers relocated here; social life here; supposed cache of Spitfire aircraft here; unemployment here; wildlife here; see also Golden Valley; Hlaing Tharyar
Yangon river here
Yangon University (earlier Rangoon Arts and Science University; RASU): campus dispersed by junta here, here; student nationalism and protests here, here
Yawd Maung here, here
Yawd Serk here, here, here, here
Yunnan (China): border with Burma here, here; Kachin in here; Soppong Chinese attack here
Zau Seng here
Zay Yar San (fortune-teller) here
Zokhawthar, Mizoram (India) here
Zomi Congress for Democracy (Chin State) here
Note on the Author
David Eimer is the author of the critically acclaimed The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China. A former China correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, Eimer was the Southeast Asia correspondent for the Daily Telegraph between 2012 and 2014. He is currently based in Bangkok.
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The Emperor Far Away
Travels at the Edge of China
A revelatory and groundbreaking insight into the divisions within modern-day China
Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China’s borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage ‘the mountains are high and the Emperor far away’, meaning Beijing’s grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate. Travelling through China’s most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities. Deconstructing the myths represented by Beijing, Eimer reveals a shocking and fascinating picture of a China that is more of an empire than a country.
‘A fascinating picture of a part of the country rarely examined’
Daily Telegraph
‘This absorbing book is a tantalizing introduction to China’s diversity and the ethnic and political dynamics at the extremes of its empire’
Publisher’s Weekly
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https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-emperor-far-away-9781408864289/
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