Hmawbi Saya Thein

Hmawbi Saya Thein was born on 31 March 1862 in Hmawbi, in Hinthada district, in Lower Burma. He travelled the country to gather old objects, manuscripts, traditions and oral history, from which he drew articles on Burmese history and culture for the journals of colonial Burma; several were collected in books, some of them after his death. He is also the author of a chronicle based on oral tradition. He died in Hmawbi on 1 January 1942, aged seventy-nine.

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• NarrativeA Crazy Man's Shoulder BagHmawbi Saya Thein · 1910not translated into EnglishLiterature