Description:
"It was probably Kinwun Mingyi's visit and embassy to Paris which revealed the existence
of a far eastern country called Burma to the French public of the 1870's. Apart from the
interest and curiosity King Mindon's envoy undoubtedly aroused, it seems reasonable to
assert that the French scholarly interest for the field of Burmese Studies dates back to
the late nineteenth and early twentieth century..."
Source/publisher:
Newsletter, Issue 25, International Insittute for Asian Studies (Leiden)
Date of Publication:
2001-10-00
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English