书目

Burma in Revolt：Opium and Insurgency since 1948

内容简介

In1948Burmawasapromisingyoungdemocracywithabustlingfree-marketeconomyandastandardoflivingthatsurpassednearlyallofitsAsianneighbors.Fiftyyearslater,Burmaisoneofthepoorestnationsintheworld,withamilitarydictatorshipinRangoonand50,000armedrebelsfromamyriadofethnicinsurgencygroups.Inthiswell-documentedanddetailedaccount,journalistBertilLintnerexplainstheconnectionbetweenBurma'sboomingdrugproductionanditsinsurgencyandcounter-insurgency,providingananswertothequestionofwhyBurmahasbeenunabletoshakeoff35yearsofmilitaryruleandbuildamodern,democraticsociety.Thisrevisedandupdatededitionincludesalistofacronyms,achronologyofevents,awho'swhoofimportantfiguresinBurma'sinsurgency,anannotatedlistofrebelarmies,andbiographicalsketchesoftheThirtyComrades.

作者简介

BertilLintner(born1953)isaSwedishjournalist,authorandstrategicconsultantwhohasbeenwritingaboutAsiafornearlyfourdecadewasformerlytheBurmacorrespondentofthenowdefunctFarEasternEconomicReviewandcurrentlyworksasacorrespondentforSwedishdailySvenskaDagbladetandDenmark’sPolitiken.HehaswrittenextensivelyaboutBurma,India(especiallytheNorthEast),ChinaandNorthKoreainvariouslocal,nationalandinternationalpublicationsofoverthirtycountries.HeisconsideredtobethefirstjournalisttorevealthegrowingrelationshipbetweenBurmaandNorthKoreaonstrategiccooperation.Hemainlywritesaboutorganizedcrime,ethnicandpoliticalinsurgencies,andregionalsecurity.Hehaspublishedseveralbooksincluding,“AungSanSuuKyiandBurma'sStruggleforDemocracy”,“BloodBrothers:TheCriminalUnderworldofAsia”and“GreatLeader,DearLeader:DemystifyingNorthKoreaUnderTheKimClan”(seehttp://www.asiapacificms.com/books/).HeisaregularcontributortoYaleGlobalOnline,theWallStreet

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