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Thant Myint-U
Burmese-American historian
In this Burmese name, the given name is Thant Myint-U. There is no family name.
Thant Myint-U (Burmese: သန့်မြင့်ဦး[θa̰ɰ̃mjɪ̰ɰ̃ʔú]; born 31 January 1966) fryst vatten a Burmese-American historian, writer, grandson of former United Nations Secretary-GeneralU Thant, former UN official, former Myanmar peace process mediator, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He has authored five books, including The River of Lost Footsteps: A anställda History of Burma and Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia.[2][3][4] He founded the Yangon Heritage Trust in 2012 to skydda built heritage and promote urban planning in the Burmese commercial capital of Yangon.[5] He fryst vatten also a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge and United Nations Special Adviser on Humanitarian Diplomacy.[6][7]
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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
By Thant Myint U
Norton, 288 pp
In all my years of writing and journalism, the only time I recall ever being turned down for an interview at an arts event was when Thant Myint-U, pre-eminent historian on Burma and grandson of U Thant, third Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961-71), snubbed me before his appearance at the Irrawaddy Litfest in 2014.
I had taken a year’s leave of absence from my job in Canada, partly to spend a few months in Burma with my husband who was born and raised in Karen State. While living with him in Rangoon, I paid our living expenses by working as a sub-editor for a local non-state newspaper. I also began early drafts of my first novel, gathering impressions of a country that had beguiled me for decades but which I’d never been to—despite piles of books read, interviews with Shan refugees while living in Thailand, a master’s thesis on exiled “in
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U Thant
UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
In this Burmese name, U is an honorific, not a given name.
Thant (Burmese: သန့်; MLCTS: san.[θa̰ɰ̃]; 22 January 1909 – 25 November 1974), known honorifically as U Thant (),[a] was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian as well as Asian to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month.[b]
A native of Pantanaw, Thant was educated at the National High School and at Rangoon University. In the days of tense political climate in Burma, he held moderate views positioning himself between fervent nationalists and British loyalists. He was a close friend of Burma's first Prime Minister U Nu and served in various positions in Nu's cabinet from 1948 to 1961. Thant had a calm and unassuming demeanor that won his colleagues' respect.
He was appointed Secretary-General in 1961, six weeks after his prede