The return of the Galon King: History, law and rebellion in colonial Burma

摘要

For generations of Southeast Asianists, the storylines of the Saya San Rebellion in colonial Burma seemed well known and widely accepted — in the early 1930s the mil-lenarian seer Saya San fomented widespread rebellion among the rural masses by channelling the minlaung (pretender-king), promising the return of the lost Burmese monarchy and offering supernatural protection to those willing to storm the bastions of British power.