Burma 50 years on: the RSAA 2014 tour

In: Asian affairs: journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 280-303

Abstract

This article describes the recent RSAA visit to Myanmar (Burma). The author, who served in the country as a diplomat in the 1960s, not only narrates the tour with many observations of architecture, history, and culture, but discusses the main changes of the last 50 years, and, with reference to the recent transformations in government, the state of infrastructure, education, tourism growth and the increasing regional presence of Myanmar, examines whether the country is now in a sustainable new phase of political and economic development. (Asian Aff/GIGA)