Myitkyina
The Last Bookshop in Myanmar
Myanmar has yet to face the overwhelming and savage force of centralised, literary capitalism. All bookshops in the country, with the exception of those owned by the state, are independent. There are no national chains listed on a stock exchange. No Barnes and Noble. No Waterstones. There is a Kinokuniya but it has not yet […]
Kachin Culture and Literature Cooperation
The Kachin are among the latest arrivals to Myanmar, descending south from the mountains that border the north of Myanmar with China at some point in the 16th or 17th century. They travelled east and west, to Yunnan province in China and to India …
Mali Hpungtsi
Mali Hpungtsi Breeze over the Irrawaddy is the longest running Jinghpaw language literary journal from Kachin State, in the far north of Myanmar …
Dancing in the Manau Park in Kachin State
The Kachin, an umbrella term for the six ethnic communities who live in Myanmars most northerly state, were once led by Duwas or clan chiefs. As well as governing their lands and the villages on it, the Duwas were also cultural guardians, commissioning Jaiwas storytellers to recount the epic oral myths and authorising […]
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