Where China Meets India

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 . 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 From their very beginnings! the civilizations of China and India have been walled off from each other! not only by the towering summits of the Himalayas! but also by the vast and impenetrable jungle! hostile tribes! and remote inland kingdoms. This title gives us an account of the region's long and rich history and its significance.

Product details

• Authors: Thant Myint U, Thant Myint-U
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2011
• EAN: 9780571239634
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23963-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; Asien : Wirtschaft, Recht, Burma (Myanmar) : Wirtschaft, Recht, Myanmar, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Burma - Birma, TRAVEL / Asia / General