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Podcast: Insight Myanmar
Episode: A Borderline Personality
Description: Episode #425: Dr. Lalita Hanwong, a Thai historian and analyst, has dedicated her career to understanding Myanmar and its ties to Thailand. âIâm morally attached to the peoples of Myanmar,â she says, summing up a lifetime of scholarship and advocacy that spans from the archives of colonial Burma to the war-torn Thai-Myanmar border. âI just want to talk to everybody.â Trained at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, Lalitaâs research explored how British rule relied on racial hierarchies to govern Burma. âThe British were pretty paranoid and suspicious of the Burmese⌠the specific race that they found...