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China And India Have Always Been Seperated Not Only By The Himalayas, But Also By The Impenetrable Jungle And Remote Areas That Once Stretched Across Burma. Now This Last Great Frontier Will Likely Vanish - Forests Cut Down, Dirt Roads Replaced By Superhighways, Insurgencies Ended - Leaving China And India Exposed To Each Other As Never Before. This Basic Shift In Geography Is As Profound As The Opening Of The Suez Canal And Is Taking Place Just As The Centre Of The World's Economy Moves To The East. Thant Myint-u Has Travelled Extensively Across This Vast Territory, Where High-speed Trains And Gleaming Shopping Malls Now Sit Alongside The Last Remaining Forests And Impoverished Mountain Communities. 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. Part Travelogue, Part History, Part Investigation, Where China Meets India Takes Us Across The Fast-changing Asian Frontier, Giving Us A Masterful Account Of The Region's Long And Rich History And Its Sudden Significance For The Rest Of The World. Thant Myint-u Is The Author Of The River Of

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Author

Thant Myint-U

Publisher

Faber & Faber, Limited

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781322365985

Category

reference

Subjects

History, Travel, Asian History

Rating

3.84 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14