2112, 2015

The Shan New Year Event and the Exhibition of Shan Manuscripts at SOAS, University of London: A Report

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|December 21, 2015|South East Asia|0 comments

Shan Kinnari Bird Dance at Shan New Year event (SOAS, December 2015). Photo credit: Qingniao Li The Shan New Year event, held on 13th December 2015, was attended by about 70 people from different parts of the UK. As in previous years, the event programme comprised a mixture of academic presentations and cultural performances. The remark of the event this year is that, with the support from the SOAS Committee

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1909, 2014

Exploring the World of Shan Manuscripts

By Jotika Khur-Yearn|September 19, 2014|Anthropology and Sociology, Archival collections, Art and Archaeology, South East Asia|0 comments

In my previous blog post, An Introduction to the World of Shan Manuscripts, I wrote “the Shans created manuscripts in their own unique styles, features and formats.” For this post, I would like to extend my writing on or along the line of the ‘features’ of Shan manuscripts. To start with, it is worth noting that many Shan manuscripts were ended up in the archives and special collections in the

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