The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century: Race, Capitalism, and Democracy in the 21st Century By Thant Myint-U

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A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020“An urgent book.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesDuring a century of colonialism, Burma was plundered for its natural resources and remade as a racial hierarchy. Over decades of dictatorship, it suffered civil war, repression, and deep poverty. Today, Burma faces a mountain of challenges: crony capitalism, exploding inequality, rising ethnonationalism, extreme racial violence, climate change, multibillion dollar criminal networks, and the power of China next door. Thant Myint-U shows how the country’s past shapes its recent and almost unbelievable attempt to create a new democracy in the heart of Asia, and helps to answer the big questions: Can this multicultural country of 55 million succeed? And what does Burma’s story really tell us about the most critical issues of our time?

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Thant Myint-U's book on Burma was interesting. I'm not sure why you are reading this book, but for me personally I had just spent 2 weeks travelling around Yunnan Province China (October 2019) which bordered Burma and, culturally it was more like Burma than China. Xishuangbanna was blast and worth the trek to get there, once/if the Corona virus thing goes away.Additionally, I was totally puzzled at how Burma went from being a rapidly up and coming capitalist star prospect, ready to join the community of nations, praised by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and then suddenly several years later back in the military repressive, genocidal dictatorship category, all the while Aung San Suu Kyi was in charge. Additionally, Burma is one of the countries bordering China, so I thought understanding Burma would help me to understand China better.This book addresses all those issues and is fairly easy to read. The author, we learn as the book unfolds, is the grandson of a Burmese hero U Thant, who was Secretary General of the UN from 1961 to 1971, taking over just after Dag Hammerskjold was killed in a plane crash.Additionally, although the author grew up in the USA, in affluent Harrison, NY (where I also grew up, totally coincidentally!), we learn that he is very involved, as the grandson of U Thant, in Burma today, heading up an effort to preserve historically significant colonial buildings in Rangoon and many other efforts.So, the author's perspective is not just as an academic, studying the problems, but one who is in the middle of things there now in addition to having a deep personal connection through his grandfather U Thant. The author seemed pretty matter of fact, though I did occasionally wonder about biases in his writing, given his current involvement, though he really did seem very straight forward.The book does review Burma's past history but all this is focused on better understanding the situation as things are today, Burma's colonial history and it's multitudes of ethnic populations.Lastly, the book mentioned Obama's visit there in 2012 at Yangon University, and that he gave the best speech anyone in Burma had ever heard. I highly recommend anyone getting this far into this review to listen to it.I did the audiobook and was quite happy. The book is relatively short, but sweet. Easy to read and well-written.

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