{"product_id":"where-china-meets-india-burma-and-the-new-crossroads-of-asia-9780374533526","title":"Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThant Myint-U's \u003ci\u003eWhere China Meets India\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta across Burma to the upper Yangtze River. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoon this last great frontier will vanish--the forests cut down, dirt roads replaced by superhighways, insurgencies crushed--leaving China and India exposed to each other as never before. This basic shift in geography--as sudden and profound as the opening of the Suez Canal--will lead to unprecedented connections among the three billion people of Southeast Asia and the Far East. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat will this change mean? Thant Myint-U is in a unique position to know. Over the past few years he has traveled extensively across this vast territory, where high-speed trains and gleaming new shopping malls are now coming within striking distance of the last far-flung rebellions and impoverished mountain communities. And he has explored the new strategic centrality of Burma, where Asia's two rising, giant powers appear to be vying for supremacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once a travelogue, a work of history, and an informed look into the future, \u003ci\u003eWhere China Meets India\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374533526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.54w x 1.01d","brand":"Thant Myint-U","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43672923996341,"sku":"9780374533526","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_3cda0039-8b4e-4798-b343-27bb44b3e314.jpg?v=1709051887","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/where-china-meets-india-burma-and-the-new-crossroads-of-asia-9780374533526","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}