Myanmar-China Relations: the Past in the Present
Continuing with our series of topics on China’s neighboring countries, this is perhaps the first time in China Seminar’s 36+ year’s history that a topic focuses on the Myanmar-China relations. Myanmar, aka Burma, considers it’s “front door” faces north and China, not the south and the “international” world, as often suggested. Professor Aung-Thwin will discuss the meaning of this “favored” gaze northward that goes back at least to the Bronze Age and continues today.
