The Chin People
The Chin People

Author: Chester U. Strait

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-04-21

Total Pages: 735

ISBN-13: 1493163094

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Moving upstream on the Irrawaddy broad tide, the ocean liner approaches the city of Rangoon, and the gold-leafed pinnacle of the celebrated Shwe Dagon pagoda welcomes it as it rises magnificently in the morning sunlight. The traveler is intrigued with the claim that this ancient shrine has been standing for three thousand years. This injects an anachronism, since Buddhism was founded not more than twenty-five centuries ago and something less than that for its lodgment in Burma. But no one seems to be embarrassed nor stultified by what, for them, is merely a slight chronological inaccuracy, which derives from the time-clocked occidental measurements, for theirs is that timeless eternity of the East.

The Chin Leadership: The Best Leadership Practice for the Chin People
The Chin Leadership: The Best Leadership Practice for the Chin People

Author: Hre Mang

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781545680520

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The Chin Leadership is first of its kind for the Chin leadership studies. It digged the leadership historical trend of the Chin people since before the time of the British invasion to the modern era. This book gives the leadership insights for students who want to learn about the Chin leadership as well as for leaders's practical guide, providing the leadership history, compared with the global leadership theories and practices to help the best applications. Rev. Hre Mang, Ph.D. lives with his family, wife Lynda Tumpar, and two sons Ginny Zalan Mang and Moses Cung Hlei Mang. Holding Bachelor of Theology (B.Th.), Master of Theology (M.Th.), Batchelor of Political Science (B.A.), Master of Public Affaiirs (M.P.A.), and Ph.D. in leadership degrees, he is a pastor, speaker, trainer, leadership coach, consultant, and is an author. Born and brought up in Burma, the author, a former social political activist, now living in the USA, travels around the world for speaking and training leaders to serve God and make the world a better place to live.

"We are Like Forgotten People"

Author: Amy Alexander

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13:

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"In this 93-page report, Human Rights Watch documents a wide range of human rights abuses carried out by the Burmese army and government officials. The abuses include forced labor, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, religious repression and other restrictions on fundamental freedoms. In Mizoram state, India, Chin people remain at risk of discrimination and abuse by local Mizo groups and local authorities, and of being forced back across the border into Burma."--Human Rights Watch website.

CHIN TRIBE - the Last Tattoed Face Women
CHIN TRIBE - the Last Tattoed Face Women

Author: Teh Han Lin

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781366463036

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The remote mountain town of Mindat is a district of the Chin state in the west of Myanmar, situated at 4,860 feet above the sea level and about 5 to 7 hours drive from Bagan. The remote tribal Mindat area, was restricted by the Burmese government until three years ago and now is open for tourist.Mindat is a town known for its untouched traditional culture, a place to meet the fascinating tatooed face women who made this area known to the world.The Chin people in Southern Chin Hills used to have the custom of tattooing on the face of the women.There are many stories about the origin of Chin tattoos, one of them, being that these tribes first began to ink their faces as a way of disfiguring their beauty, to make themselves unattractive in hopes that by doing so, they could avoid being kidnapped or chosen as concubines by the Burmese kings. A different legend states that they were tattooed distinctively to allow for identification with their tribe of origin in the event that they were kidnapped by another tribe. Another reason was that they believed the tatoos were beautiful, or a mark of beauty, they believed that with it, it made them more attractive and would receive attention from young men. Although nobody could authenticate the validity of this story.

The Lost Dictionary - a History of the Chin People, the Newland Family and the American Baptist Chin Mission
The Lost Dictionary - a History of the Chin People, the Newland Family and the American Baptist Chin Mission

Author: Wim Vervest

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781925086621

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Once upon a time there was a dictionary, complete with anthropological footnotes, which recorded the culture and language of the Chin people; but the dictionary was ignored by the incoming Baptist missionaries and forgotten for a century, perhaps because its creator refused to condemn the Chins' animist religion. This is the story of Surgeon-Major Arthur Newland, the pioneering photo-journalist who gave the Chins their written language; of his Chin wife Sina and their son Major Sam Newland D.S.O., hero of the wartime "Z Force Johnnies"; of the missionaries who converted the Chins to Christianity and of the Chin people themselves, a complex feudal society living in one of the most inaccessible regions on Earth.