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Burmese Prince Myingun is an enigmatic historical figure, at once a rebel who enacted a murderous coup, an exile who never gave up hope and a trickster who moved at the interstices of colonial Southeast Asia at the turn of the 20th century. Dr Penny Edwards, Associate Professor in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is in the final stages of publishing a book a, "Kingdoms of the Mind: Burma's Fugitive Prince and the Fracturing of Empire", forthcoming with Columbia University Press, about Prince Myingun. She joins us to colour in his historical record.
By Myanmar MusingsBurmese Prince Myingun is an enigmatic historical figure, at once a rebel who enacted a murderous coup, an exile who never gave up hope and a trickster who moved at the interstices of colonial Southeast Asia at the turn of the 20th century. Dr Penny Edwards, Associate Professor in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is in the final stages of publishing a book a, "Kingdoms of the Mind: Burma's Fugitive Prince and the Fracturing of Empire", forthcoming with Columbia University Press, about Prince Myingun. She joins us to colour in his historical record.