(109) As we have seen earlier, as in other Indian Ocean cities such as Bombay, the catalytic effect of missionary printing in
Moulmein and Rangoon had since the 1870s led a range of non-Christian print entrepreneurs to adapt the new technology to their own purposes.
(40.) Edith Piness,
Moulmein to Mandalay (Unpublished thesis, 1977), 19.
In the fourth chapter, "
Moulmein," Larkin's tone becomes more personal and intimate.
A week after the original attack in the Malaya Peninsula, the Japanese moved on northern Burma by seizing airfields in Thailand and then advancing to
Moulmein in Burma.
Despite the development of a few cities--Rangoon (with four million people), Mandalay (800,000), and
Moulmein (300,000)--about 70 percent of Burma's population still lives in small, rural towns and villages.
On March 6, 50 KNU rebels with heavy weapons attacked a military outpost at Wekalay, a village 120 kilometers from the southern province of
Moulmein, killing three Myanmar soldiers and burning road construction equipment.
As everybody has noticed, there is no part of Burma from which the "dawn comes up like thunder out of China `crost the bay"--certainly not
Moulmein, which is on the east coast of the Martaban Gulf.
I was 19 years old and a student at
Moulmein University in Burma when the student democratic uprising happened in September 1988.
After Ann's death later that year, Adoniram moved between
Moulmein, the new chief city of the Province of Tenaserim, and Prome and Rangoon.
Tan, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital,
Moulmein Road, Singapore 1130
As Eric Blair describes his job as District Officer in
Moulmein in Southern Burma in the early 1920s, he was "both policeman and magistrate, interrogator and judge, for nearly one hundred thousand Burmese, Indians, and Chinese, and a few hundred Europeans" (p.
In contrast to the Yunnanese migrants in Bhamo and Mandalay discussed in the previous chapter, chapter 3 investigates stories of maritime Chinese and covers a much wider range of places where Fujianese and Cantonese settled--Pyapon,
Moulmein, Bassein, Mergui and Rangoon.
