This is a fantastically insightful book into the recent developments in India and China and their effect on SE Asia, with specific focus on Burma. A few of the travelogue portions feel thin and forced, but fortunately Thant Myint-U doesn't ever linger too long and spends far more time relating th...
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 a...
They had been unhappy with their father’s appointment of Kanaung as heir apparent, and relations between uncle and nephews had worsened over time. The two princes had once been caught stealing into the palace in the middle of the night after an evening of frolicking outside (and, according to on...