Thant Myint-U Bücher

"An account of the Asian frontier's long and rich history and its modern significance."--Publisher's description.

Burma's tumultuous history, marked by dictatorship, natural disasters, and colonial legacies, sets the stage for a significant turning point with the end of military rule. The emergence of Aung San Suu Kyi, a globally admired figure, from years of house arrest ignited hope for a brighter future. International support surged, led by influential leaders like Barack Obama, fostering optimism for progress and change in the nation.

A compelling and timely inside account of the recent crisis in Burma and its troubled journey from dictatorship to democracy.

A much-needed history of nineteenth-century Burma which lays down the foundations of the modern state. schovat popis

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.

What do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about its present and even its future? 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. Now Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, and the story of his own family, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Through his prominent family's stories and those of others, he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through a sixty-year civil war that continues today—the longest-running war anywhere in the world. The River of Lost Footsteps is a work at once personal and global, a "brisk, vivid history" (Philip Delves Broughton, The Wall Street Journal) that makes Burma accessible and enthralling.

Burma is ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. Drawing on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the UN, the author has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future.