Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

Informationen zum Autor Thant Myint-U was educated at Harvard and Cambridge Universities and later taught history for several years as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.He has also served on three United Nations peacekeeping operations, in Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia, as well as with the United Nations Secretariat in New York. He is the author of a personal history of Burma, The River of Lost Footsteps . Klappentext In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two rising giant powers - China and India - appear to be vying for supremacy. Where China Meets India is Thant Myint-U's vivid, searching, and timely book about the strategic centrality of Burma, where Asia's two rising giant powers - China and India - appear to be vying for supremacy. Zusammenfassung In Where China Meets India he explores the new strategic centrality of Burma, the country of his ancestry, where Asia's two rising giant powers - China and India - appear to be vying for supremacy.

Product details

• Authors: Thant Myint-U, Myint-U Thant
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2012
• EAN: 9780571239641
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23964-1
• No. of pages: 366
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Myanmar, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, TRAVEL / Asia / General, Travel writing