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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century. By Thant Myint-U. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019. xiii, 304 pp. ISBN: 9781324003298 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2021

Masao Imamura
Masao Imamura*
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Yamagata University
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imamura@human.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp
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Book Reviews—Southeast Asia
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 80 , Issue 2 , May 2021 , pp. 528 - 531
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References

1 Thant Myint-U prefers “Burma” to “Myanmar.” For the sake of consistency, I, too, will use “Burma” in this review.

2 Lintner, Bertil, Why Burma's Peace Efforts Have Failed to End Its Internal Wars (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2020)Google Scholar.

3 Myint-U, Thant, River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)Google Scholar; Myint-U, Thant, Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)Google Scholar.

4 For example, Thawnghmung, Ardeth Maung, Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Ewing, Cindy, “The Colombo Powers: Crafting Diplomacy in the Third World and Launching Afro-Asia at Bandung,” Cold War History 19, no. 1 (2019): 4CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 For one remarkable example, see Watanabe, Chika, Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.