Harvey) as well as English translations of Siamese and Lan Na history.

[1] He had wanted to bring a more complete textbook than those in use at the time when most Burmese vernacular schools used a Burmese translation of Cocks's A Short History of Burma or an abridged version of the Hmannan chronicle by Ba Tin of Mandalay.

Hall as well as feedback by Burmese scholars and writers such as Po Kya, Po Lat, and Theippan Maung Wa (who was a student of his at the Maha Buddhaghosa high school).

[4] But Ba Than died shortly after finishing work on the second edition in November 1930.

[7] The next update to the book was overseen by Ba Than's brother Sein in 1934, and published as the fifth edition.