{"product_id":"9781466801271","title":"Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThant Myint-U\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eWhere China Meets India \u003c\/i\u003eis a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once a travelogue, a work of history, and an informed look into the future, \u003ci\u003eWhere China Meets India \u003c\/i\u003etakes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183262843120,"sku":"9781466801271","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466801271_p0.jpg?v=1769890795","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466801271","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}