Exploring Burma’s Bookshops: C.A.C.C

Hakha is the capital of Chin State, Myanmar’s least developed region and a restricted area for foreigners without permits until 2012.  With very few roads, and many of the villages clinging to remote hillsides, it is detached from the literary centres of the country.  There are no bookshops in Chin State, at least not stores that are solely for the purpose of selling books.  In the larger towns, like Hakha, Falam, Matupi and Teddim, there are general stores which may have a cabinet with a few...