A post from the archives
1927
A view of the Secretariat from Neruda’s old apartment on Dalhousie Street
This 1927 apartment building (partially renovated in 2013) was home to the great Chilean poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Pablo Neruda. He worked in Rangoon from 1927-28 at the Chilean consulate to Burma. Here, he fell in love with a Burmese woman called Josie Bliss, who poetry critics would later identify as his most important muse. As Neruda describes her, Bliss was an incredibly jealous woman and used to brandish a knife at him when she...
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The aim of this website is to promote interest in Myanmar's amazing history.Our hope is to challenge the often two-dimensional and uncritical views of history taught in Myanmar by reexamining key periods in the country's past. We would like as well to reveal the rich multicultural nature of Myanmar's history and its deep and ongoing ties to global events and trends.Finally, this website will also delve into the history of neighbouring regions, such as Yunnan in China and the Northeast in India, in the hope of introducing these places to a Myanmar audience.We believe that meeting Myanmar's many challenges today will require fresh imaginative thinking. This is turn will only be possible with a clear and critical understanding of Myanmar and global history.