Thant Myint U: 4 books

Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable...

How did one of the world’s "buzzy hotspots" (Fodor’s 2013) become one of the top ten places to avoid (Fodor’s 2018)? Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma’s population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades...

For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma—through sanctions and tourist boycotts—only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know...

"Myanmar. Dove la Cina incontra l'India" è un diario di viaggio che accompagna in una delle più strategiche zone di confine del mondo, quel crocevia asiatico che si sviluppa "nel nord del Myanmar (ex Birmania), verso il sud-ovest della Cina e il nord-est dell'India, [...] regioni...