“The author has made a great contribution to the field of Southeast Asian Studies with reference to Myanmar (Burma) case… offers new insights into the political and social changes… through personal and scholarly accounts… provides “insider” views rarely found in other academic scholarship on Myanmar”. - Priyambudi Sullistiyanto, Lecturer at Flinders Asia Centre, School of Political and International Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. “… author shed(s) light on “insiders” stories many of which have been either unknown or distorted in the international media” - Yoshinoro Nishizaki, Assistant Professor, NUS, Department of Political Science. Also a Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. “Important sources (oral history) of people directly involved, not easily found (or at all), elsewhere” - Michale Aung-Thwin – Chair and Professor of Asian Studies at University of Hawaii, Monoa. “A monumentally important work in the annals of Myanmar contemporary research (having) juxtaposed the original sources of information on Myanmar contemporary politics with both thinking and political science and international experience”. - Dr Than Nyunt, formerly Rector at the Institute of Economics, Yangon; Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education; and Chairman of Civil Service Selection and Training Board, Myanmar; Member Eminent Persons Group (EPG), ASEAN Charter. Book “reads very well and is easily within the reach and interest sphere of policy makers at all levels, business people… reading public interested in an alternative version of Myanmar’s contemporary history… a truly challenging version (with) right to be in the public domain and be heard”. - Drs Ankie Hoogvelt, formerly Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Britain, UK. “Misunderstood Myanmar” gets down to the soul of modern Myanmar’s eco-political and sociological architecture written (as) what may be considered an overview of the true state of affairs of developments in Myanmar in modern tenures in a practically anthropological approach… an attempt by genuine scholar to reveal motivations of the Government… in their quest for a second renaissance… book is a “must read” for any party seeking to understand Myanmar”. - BG. David O Abel (Retd), Retired Minister, Trade, Finance, Planning, Union of Myanmar.