Printing presses are rarely a source of interest in Britain, unless you somehow find yourself in possession of an original press owned by perhaps Gutenburg or Claxton. Publishing houses, yes. Especially those historical ones passed down through familial generations …
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 […]
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 – Breeze over the Irrawaddy – is the longest running Jinghpaw language literary journal from Kachin State, in the far north of Myanmar …
The Kachin, an umbrella term for the six ethnic communities who live in Myanmar’s most northerly state, were once led by Duwas or clan chiefs. As well as governing their lands and the villages on it, the Duwa’s were also cultural guardians, commissioning Jaiwa’s – storytellers – to recount the epic oral myths and authorising […]