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In this highly personal account, the author, Chao Tzang Yawnghwe, a son of the first President of the Union of Burma, tells of his youth and involvement in the Shan resistance movement. He gives his version of Shan history and explains the complexity of Shan politics covering the issues of autonomy, Shan-Burmese relations, opium, and other contraband trade. He discusses the personalities involved in the war that is now more than twenty years old. The final part of this book is a compendium of who's who in Shan history and politics. The author passed away in July 2004.

Shan (Asian people) --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. --- Great Thai (Asian people) --- Ngiaw (Asian people) --- Ngio (Asian people) --- Ngiow (Asian people) --- Sam (Asian people) --- Sha (Asian people) --- Shan (Burmese people) --- Shans --- Tai Luang (Asian people) --- Tai Shan (Asian people) --- Tai Yai (Asian people) --- Tai Yay (Asian people) --- Thai Yai (Asian people) --- Ethnology --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Shan State (Burma) --- Rat Thai Yai (Burma) --- Rat Chān (Burma) --- Shan Pyenè (Burma) --- Tzang Yawnghwe, --- Chao Tzang Yawnghwe, --- Chao Yawnghwe, --- Thaike, Eugene, --- Yawnghwe, --- Yawnghwe, Chao Tzang,