Michael Arthur Aung-Thwin
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Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. Author of Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma and others.
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Myanmar, country, located in the western portion of mainland Southeast Asia. In 1989 the country’s official English name, which it had held since 1885, was changed from the Union of Burma to the Union of Myanmar; in the Burmese language the country has been known as Myanma (or, more precisely,…
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