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Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China
Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China
Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China
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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 opportunists—a situation that remains painfully relevant to many in diverse locations to the present day.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherOrchid Press
Release dateFeb 25, 2019
ISBN9789745241848
Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China
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Bertil Lintner

Bertil Lintner writes for Asia Times Online and the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet. Lintner has numerous books to his credit and is a recognized expert on Burmese issues as well as ethnic minorities, insurgencies and narcotics in Southeast and South Asia.

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