A Burmese Heart, by Y.M.V. Han, Tinsa Maw-Naing
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Spanning the colonial, independence, and dictatorship periods in Burma (Myanmar), A Burmese Heart is a gripping personal account of one woman and her family who lived through the making and unmaking of their country's turbulent history. Tinsa Maw-Naing is born into privilege as the daughter of a wealthy barrister and his wife in Rangoon (Yangon), and she is forewarned at birth that she is destined to live a life of extremes. She is introduced to chaos at an early age when her father, Dr. Ba Maw, becomes Prime Minister and initiates the independence movement with likeminded nationalists during the fall of the colonial era. Forced to confront war and mortality during her childhood, Tinsa's fate and mettle are tested amidst unparalleled destruction. Tinsa marries Bo Yan Naing, one of the famed Thirty Comrades who were the nucleus of the modern military, and becomes one of the first female English Literature university lecturers during Burma's gilded age of democracy. Her bliss is short-lived when a military dictatorship takes power in 1962, and her husband ignites a pro-democracy insurgency on the Thai-Burma border. In May 1966, soldiers ransack Tinsa's home and she is taken to the notorious Ye Kyi Aing Prison in the outskirts of Rangoon (Yangon), where she is imprisoned for years as punishment for her husband's insurrection. Her family and friends languish in secret detention centers as the first political detainees of that era, silent witnesses to the rise of a new regime. A Burmese Heart is an engrossing account of surviving history as told through the eyes of one woman. It is also the story of a country and its people - revolutionaries, intellectuals, martyrs, innocent bystanders - who are perpetually caught in the violent cycles of politics, a history silenced until now.
A Burmese Heart, by Y.M.V. Han, Tinsa Maw-Naing - Amazon Sales Rank: #419969 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .80" w x 5.25" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 318 pages
A Burmese Heart, by Y.M.V. Han, Tinsa Maw-Naing Review "This is a well-written history from a part of the world that has been forgotten or overlooked by many...This is a book for any history buff, for anyone interested in Asia, in World War II, or in the British Colonies." - Portland Book Review"A number of memoirs detailing personal struggles under Myanmar's military regime have surfaced over the years...But Daw Tinsa Maw-Naing's book, co-authored with her grand-daughter Y.M.V. Han, stands out for two reasons. Firstly, the account spans a great length of time--from the British colonial era to the Ne Win regime. Secondly, being the daughter of Ba Maw and the wife of Bo Yan Naing, the lead author brings an insider's view and offers fascinating, if perhaps controversial, insight into some of the country's most notable individuals." - The Irrawaddy Magazine
About the Author Tinsa Maw-Naing was born in Rangoon (Yangon) in 1927. The eldest daughter of Daw Kinmama Maw and Dr. Ba Maw, the former Prime Minister, she married Bo Yan Naing of the famed Thirty Comrades in 1944. She was a lecturer at the University of Medicine in Rangoon before she was imprisoned from 1966 to 1968, and again from 1974 to 1976. Tinsa passed away in 2014 before the publication of this book. Y.M.V. Han is the granddaughter of Tinsa Maw-Naing and Bo Yan Naing, and great-granddaughter of Dr. Ba Maw.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. she was fortunate to maintain her sense of humor which makes the ... By MT A rare book published on the internal “invisible war of Burma”, an era which got erased from the Burmese history that now exists only in affected Burmese people’s memories.Daw Tinsa Maw-Naing’s fast pacing narrative style reveals her emotions, personality and voice in recording her stimulating personal account of what she has witnessed and went through her life – born into privileged parents who were powerful and influential than most Burmese, witnessed the first hand complex and tumultuous nature of Burmese politics and the country’s struggle for independence followed by a period of becoming a political prisoner herself after the staged coup d’état in 1962 - has kept me on the edge of my seat until the very last page. Although her life was full of turbulences, largely defined by silences and disappearances, she was fortunate to maintain her sense of humor which makes the reader’s heart a bit lighter to bear for all she had endured.The Invisible War in part II of “A Burmese Heart” revealed Daw Tinsa Maw-Naing’s resilient personality and incredible strength in overcoming all the misfortunes she encountered as the military dictatorship gained momentum after the 1962 coup. She was dismissed from her passionate English lecturer position, the income on which she was solely reliant on bringing up nine children, after her husband Bo Yan Naing - one of the famed Thirty Comrades who were the nucleus of the modern Burmese military at that time - ignited a pro-democracy insurgency on the Thai-Burma border. While she was single-handedly raising her children without any income and a missing husband, she was then jailed twice as a political prisoner as a punishment for her husband’s insurrection.Unknown to the world, thousands of other families’ encountered similar tribulations as the Maw-Naing’s in that era after their family members/close relatives or friends disappeared in the dark and locked up as political prisoners. Some who were fortunate to survive their ordeals, came out many years later as broken men and women, kept the silence of their “inside life” and took it to their graves. As this part of the Burmese history became too dangerous to mention, the topic became taboo, before being totally erased from the Burmese history. But the sad memories lingered on in the hearts of people who had endured the torments. So the author’s unbiased factual truths recorded in part II of “A Burmese Heart” will be embraced by the second generation, whose lives were effectively destroyed in their tender years, can now fill in the blanks to the memories of their loved ones. Until now, the only knowledge they have of their loved ones’ calamity was for the crime they had committed - in knowing someone who had gone underground to join the insurrection.I applaud Daw Tinsa Maw-Naing for being able to remain brave and strong until she finally decided to let not only the Burmese people but the world know the veiled and expunged part of the Burmese history by writing this book. A rare read no book lover should miss.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A beautiful memoir that reads like great fiction! By S Chapman I loved this book. The story is a rare window into a fascinating part of Burmese history through the eyes of the intensely likable Daw Tinsa Maw-Naing. Despite the difficult subject matter, including years spent in prison, assassination attempts, and wars fought and lost, the incredible strength and good humor of Mrs. Maw-Naing shines through and makes this book a surprisingly easy and fun read. Her story is inspiring, hopeful, and heartbreaking, all in one, and I was captivated all the way through.This is the best book I've read in a very long time, and I highly recommend it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Personal, poignant and beautiful, read this to understand Burma (Myanmar)'s rich and complex political history By Thiri Thant Mon My favourite Burmese history book so far. I cried every time a named person died, the shared pain made more personal by the fact that the authors were/are family friends and neighbours, I recalled memories of terror at the mention of shootings in University Avenue and Pyay Road - streets where I lived and went to school, and I felt through my very core, a deep sorrow for my country where hopes, dreams and futures have been lost for far too long.Thank you Daw Tinsa and thank you Vanessa for giving me goosebumps as you filled more squares in the patchwork of oral history that had been handed down by my grandparents and parents. Too little had been written about our own country during the very dark decades of brutal censorship and crackdown of the arts. Your work means so much.The whole book touched me but here are some passages that speak of Myanmar's potential and struggles:Pg. 193: (On 1950s Burma) "Rangoon was preposterously wealthy in the age of democracy... The reputation was only half true. Rangoon, and not Burma as a whole, was wealthy beyond belief. Chauffeured Rolles-Royces gleamed in the driveways of homes... Friends and neighbours skied in the Alps and sunbathed in the French Riviera, tales of rubbing shoulders with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlene Dietrich... Beyond Rangoon, the majority of the population lived in abject poverty and in the same conditions that their ancestors lived in generations ago. If one were to drive an hour outside the capital, the country fell into pitch-black darkness, electricity an unimaginable luxury for the masses." (A lesson to strive for more inclusive growth this time around.)Pg. 293: "Anyone who lived through 1980s Burma knew that something big, explosive, was ripening. Food, clean water, medicine and foreign currency, were virtually inaccessible to anyone except for the elite... (My family, living in our lakeside mansion, rationed everything from food to soap and when I left Burma for the first time to visit Singapore, the government allowed us to purchase a whole $64.) People who could no longer afford basic food and shelter poured into the streets, a new class of urban poor.... Thousands resorted to begging, prostitution, theft and petty crimes to stay alive. Then one by one, they began dying. They dropped dead in the middle of the streets. Rangoon was initially shocked by what was happening but was becoming immune to seeing the bodies in the gutters, desensitized by our own hunger." (I was too young and too protected to remember this and have no words in response.)Dear "Global Community" - we are trying to work our way out of this terrible fate. No human community deserves this. "We" include the current government, the military, opposition, civil society and ordinary citizens such as myself. Help us please and help by engaging and investing. Lift all sanctions that give you moral smugness and superiority but are literally killing our people and our future. Give us our human right for self-determination and stop your careless imperialism - yes, I mean you, the United States Congress, Brussels and Westminster.
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