About Michael Aris
Michael Vaillancourt Aris was a British historian who wrote and lectured on Bhutanese, Tibetan, and Himalayan culture and history. He was the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, who would later become State Counsellor of Myanmar. Michael Aris's identical twin brother, Anthony Aris, similarly became a scholar of Tibetan studies, and founded Serindia Publications to focus on bringing Tibetan history and culture to modern audiences. In the ten years following his wife's first house arrest in 1989, Aris would only see Suu Kyi another five times before his death in 1999. In 1976, Aris moved on to the University of Oxford and became a junior research fellow and a member of the university faculty at St John's College.
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