Introduction : Burmese lives in a divided state / Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang
The extra-ordinariness of ordinary lives / Mandy Sadan
The Kayan Padaung community in Pekhon, southern Shan State, Burma / Pascal Khoo-Thwe
A woman of mediation / Bénédicte Brac de La Perrière
Burmese and Muslim : Islam and the hajj in the sangha state / Eric Tagliacozzo
Recounting, resistance, and reflection : an analysis of a Burmese classical musician's narrative / Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu
Dr. U Tin Win, escape artist / James Scott
The Maung Aye's legacy : Burmese and Moken encounters in the southern borderlands of Myanmar, 1987-2007 / Maxime Boutry
By sea and by land : stories of two Chinese traders / Wen-Chin Chang
A mixed identity, a mixed career / Ma Thida
At the community's service : a transformational life / Karin Eberhardt
From the "loyal" to the "revolutionary" Karen : looking at Burma's post-independent eras through the life of Maung Sin Kye / Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung.
Burmese lives : ordinary life stories under the Burmese regime. ISBN 9780199335046. Published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.