Bertil Lintner

Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bertil and Hseng Noung Lintner, and their baby daughter, born enroute, spent one and a half years traveling through northern and eastern Burma, from 1985-87. Throughout their account, they describe, with rare and deep insight, the struggle by northern Burma's ethnic groups against brutal Burmese army rule, and record the decline and fall of the Communist Party of Burma.
During their incredibly arduous 2,275 kilometre trek, mostly on foot and at times in great danger, they recorded the history of a forgotten 40-year war, an account which otherwise would never have been committed to paper in such rich detail.
Land of Jade further provides poignant descriptions of the efforts of simple ethnic tribes-people to forge lives amid the larger struggles of political antagonists, drug lords, foreign interlopers and assorted other opportunistsa situation that remains painfully relevant to many in diverse locations to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: orchidpr
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789745241848
• Artikelnr.: 55437148

Autorenporträt

Swedish national Bertil Lintner embarked on a career as a free-lance journalist in 1980 and soon established himself as an authority on insurgency in Burma. He now contributes to a number of publications in Asia and Europe and contributed regularly to the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong, until its demise in December, 2009. His other books include 'Outrage: Burma's Struggle for Democracy', 'The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma', 'Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948', 'Bloodbrothers: Crime, Business and Politics in Asia', and 'Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under the Kim
Clan'.