Colonial-era pulp fiction portrays ‘technicolor’ Myanmar
ANDREW SELTH | Ask foreign visitors to Myanmar what literary works they associate with the country and the chances are that most will cite… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Ask foreign visitors to Myanmar what literary works they associate with the country and the chances are that most will cite… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | The recent release of former ambassador Trevor Wilson’s book, Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar, prompts a brief look at other… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Andrew Selth discusses how matchbox labels provide a glimpse into the culture of colonial Burma. In the not so distant past,… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Over the centuries, popular perceptions of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, have been remarkably consistent. The mental pictures of the country… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Burma’s recent history, of turmoil and change (including the 1989 renaming to Myanmar), makes it a telling case study for the… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | He knew little about the country, but colonised the West’s imagination about it. The Indian Institute of Advanced Study and the… Read More
More photos from the Inaugural Asia Lecture are available on our Griffith Asia Institute… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Paraphrasing the Roman historian Tacitus, US President John F Kennedy said in 1961 that ‘victory has a thousand fathers but defeat… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | Over the past few years, there has been a significant shift in public perceptions of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu… Read More
ANDREW SELTH | From plague, to meals, to piles and piles of poo — Andrew Selth on the former capital’s resident rodents. When I… Read More