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Houtman, Gustaaf. Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy. Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Monograph Series No. 33. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 1999, 400 pp. ISBN 4-87297-748-3

Online Reviews and References
(in chronological order)

U Aung Khin. 'Thamahtá-wípathana né myanma naingnanyeì'
[Samatha-vipassana and Burmese politics]. Voice of Burma. 
Issue No. 204, September 1999, p 15 (in Burmese: this review was
broadcast to Burma through Democratic Voice of Burma, Oslo).
http://faxtoon.com/docs/vob204.exe 

Douglas Steele (founder of BurmaNet News) 
The Reviewer, 14.11.1999
http://members.rediff.com/thereviewer/14111999o.htm

Bertil Lintner. 'Burma - cultural revolution'. 
Far Eastern Economic Review, 18.11.1999
BurmaNet News, #1404, 18.11.1999
http://www.soros.org/burma/burmanetnews/bnn111899.html

to Lintner's article the regime replied:
A University Teacher. 'Myanmar means all national races' 
New Light of Myanmar, 12.12.1999
1999.12.12.htm

Regime's reference to `Myanma-fication':
Ba Than. 'Perpetuating Myanmar cultural heritage' 
New Light of Myanmar, 14.12.1999
see also 'Myanmafication', BurmaNet News, #1412, 14.12.1999
http://www.soros.org/burma/burmanetnews/bnn121499.html

Review by Patricia Herbert (British Library) at the Britain-Burma Society website
http://www.planet.simplenet.com/index.mv?Burma (members only area)

'Comment: Dr. U Ne Oo on Gustaaf Houtman's  "Burmese
Mental Culture".' BurmaNet News, #1455, 5-6 February 2000
http://theburmanetnews.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$23
http://www.egroups.co.jp/message/freeburma9999/307

Karen Darris in Journal of Buddhist Ethics, No. 7, 2000, pp 43-47
http://jbe.la.psu.edu/7/derris001.html