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The Rice Industry of Burma 1852-1940
Author(s): Cheng Siok Hwa (Author)
- Publisher: ISEAS
- Publication Date: 15 Jun. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 307 pages
- ISBN-10: 9812304398
- ISBN-13: 9789812304391
Book Description
This study forms a welcome addition to the growing number of works on the economic history of Southeast Asia. In his Foreword, Dr John F. Cady, the author of A History of Modern Burma, writes that Dr Cheng “has placed all students of Burma in her debt by this highly articulate and clarifying contribution to the country’s economic history”.
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About the Author
Cheng Siok Hwa has lectured on Southeast Asian economic history in the History departments of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, University of Hong Kong, and the National University of Singapore.
