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“bertil lintner”

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  • Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Outrage: Burma's Struggle for Democracy

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    In 1988 Burma (now Myanmar) exploded. People rose up against their government in a massive and nationwide expression of outrage at the regime's ruinous economic policies and repressive politics. The protests were suppressed by violence on a scale even more brutal than the Chinese suppression of the demonstrations in and around Tiananmen Square the following year. Outrage is the result of many ... Read more

    $6.62 USD

  • Young Tigers

    Chao Tzang Yawnghwe and the Shan Rebellion in Myanmar

    by Bertil Lintner, Hseng Noung Lintner ...
    When Myanmar emerged from colonial rule, it promised a united federal future. Instead, the country spiraled into dictatorship, ethnic conflict, and shattered dreams. Young Tigers unravels this gripping history through the life of Chao Tzang Yawnghwe—son of Burma’s first president and last Saohpa (prince) of Yawnghwe—who transformed from privileged aristocrat to guerrilla fighter, exiled ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood Brothers

    Crime, Business and Politics in Asia

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    All over Asia bankers, gangsters, government officials and intelligence agents interact while organised crime networks threaten the rest of the world.Chinese gangs run Chinatowns all over the United States and Europe; Vietnamese mobsters have taken over the heroin trade to Australia; Russian gangsters thrive in cities througout America and the Japanese yakuza not only influence government and ... Read more

    $13.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World.Wide.Web: Chinese Migration in the 21st Century—And How It Will Change the World

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    For centuries past, often driven by political upheaval or famine, Chinese have migrated to southeast Asia and beyond, to far flung corners of the globe. Large old 'Chinatowns' in cities such as London, Toronto, New York and San Francisco attest to these earlier migrations.Chinese continue to emigrate in large numbers in the 21st century—but this time around circumstances are different. Often ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Land Ablaze

    Coups, Insurgents and the State in Myanmar

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    Myanmar's generals didn't expect the nation to rise up against the coup they staged in February 2021. But after decades of stifling, direct military rule, the Burmese people had become used to another way of life during the relative openness of 2011-21. The army has been unable to suppress anti-coup protests as it did in 1962 and 1988; and, three years after sending tanks into Yangon, Naypyitaw ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The End of the Chinese Century?

    How Xi Jinping Lost the Belt and Road Initiative

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    The Belt and Road Initiative, when first unveiled by Xi Jinping in 2013, was envisioned as even bigger and grander than America's Marshall Plan. Famously referred to as the 'New Silk Route', it proposed an overland 'Silk Road Economic Belt' connecting China with Europe through Central Asia and the 'Maritime Silk Road' that the Chinese claim existed in ancient times across the Indian Ocean. The BRI ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    One of Asia’s longest running communist insurrections ended on the night of April 16, 1989. Its cessation was not the outcome of a successful government offensive or of a generous amnesty policy, but of an all-out mutiny within the rank-and-file of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB). That night, thousands of mutineers stormed the CPB’s headquarters at Panghsang, a small town near the Chinese ... Read more

    $6.62 USD

  • China’s India War

    Collision Course on the Roof of the World

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    The Sino-Indian War of 1962 delivered a crushing defeat to India: not only did the country suffer a loss of lives and a heavy blow to its pride, the world began to see India as the provocateur of the war, with China ‘merely defending’ its territory. This perception that China was largely the innocent victim of Nehru’s hostile policies was put forth by journalist Neville Maxwell in his book India’s ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Costliest Pearl

    China's Struggle for India's Ocean

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Not since Admiral Zheng He sailed his fleet through these waters in the fifteenth century -- exploring and mapping them in a bid to extend the Celestial Empire's trading and tributary system -- has China been present here. Beijing's re-entry into ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Kachin: Lords of Burma's Northern Frontier

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    Remarkable for their military prowess, their receptivity to Christianity, and their intricate all-embracing kinship network, the Kachins are a hardy mountain people living in the remote hills of northern Burma (Myanmar), and on the peripheries of China and India. During the Second World War they strongly sided with the Allies in defending Burma against the imperialist designs of the Japanese ... Read more

    $6.62 USD

  • Burma in Revolt

    Opium and Insurgency since 1948

    by Bertil Lintner ...
    In 1948, Burma was a promising young democracy with a bustling free market economy and a standard of living that surpassed nearly all of its other Asian neighbours. Fifty years later, Burma is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a military dictatorship in Rangoon and 50,000 armed rebels from a myriad of ethnic insurgency groups. In this well documented and detailed account, well-known ... Read more

    $23.98 USD