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1: Land and father
At the Shwedagon
The Shwe Pyidaw
After the Mongols
The Salami wars
British Burma
Saturday's child
From campus oddball to national hero (aged 20)
'1300': the year that never was
Desperate times, desperate remedies
Bo Teza: reluctant collaborator
Snakes, ladders and a wife
Old enemies, new friends
Getting there
2: The daughter
19th July
The golden rain is brown
An Indian Idyll: the 'ugly one' takes wing
The daughter of some or other Burmese general
Things fall apart
Between three continents
Thimphu, Kyoto, Simla
3: Sixteen months
Number one and number nine
White bridge, red bridge
8.8.88
Shadow of the hundred flowers
Digging in
Squaring up
Suu Kyi's tightrope
Danubyu
The door slams shut
4: The political Madonna
Egg on the generals' faces
Soldiers at the gate
Famously alone
Freedom on a leash
The saddest thing
The widower road to
Back to Mandalay
The monks' revolt.
At the Shwedagon
The Shwe Pyidaw
After the Mongols
The Salami wars
British Burma
Saturday's child
From campus oddball to national hero (aged 20)
'1300': the year that never was
Desperate times, desperate remedies
Bo Teza: reluctant collaborator
Snakes, ladders and a wife
Old enemies, new friends
Getting there
2: The daughter
19th July
The golden rain is brown
An Indian Idyll: the 'ugly one' takes wing
The daughter of some or other Burmese general
Things fall apart
Between three continents
Thimphu, Kyoto, Simla
3: Sixteen months
Number one and number nine
White bridge, red bridge
8.8.88
Shadow of the hundred flowers
Digging in
Squaring up
Suu Kyi's tightrope
Danubyu
The door slams shut
4: The political Madonna
Egg on the generals' faces
Soldiers at the gate
Famously alone
Freedom on a leash
The saddest thing
The widower road to
Back to Mandalay
The monks' revolt.