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The historic opening in Myanmar has brought a country once a byword for isolation into the media spotlight. Myanmar's relations with both China and the West are changing dramatically. Over the last two years Myanmar has welcomed a string of Western dignitaries culminating in the first-ever visit of a sitting US president to the country. At the same time, controversy over Chinese investment projects brings into question the future of the China-Myanmar relationship, and Western investors are expressing growing interest in Myanmar as a potential high-growth market and one of the last frontiers for international business in Asia.
This talk will examine recent developments in the China-Myanmar relationship and the potential for new economic and strategic relations between the West and Myanmar. To do so it will introduce the "Dream of the Golden Land", Myanmar's national narrative. The Dream of the Golden Land shows how historically conditioned cultural understandings shape both the evolving economic and strategic relationship with China and the challenges in Myanmar's renewed engagement with the West.
This talk will examine recent developments in the China-Myanmar relationship and the potential for new economic and strategic relations between the West and Myanmar. To do so it will introduce the "Dream of the Golden Land", Myanmar's national narrative. The Dream of the Golden Land shows how historically conditioned cultural understandings shape both the evolving economic and strategic relationship with China and the challenges in Myanmar's renewed engagement with the West.
Speaker Bio:
Josh Gordon is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Yale University. His dissertation research is on Chinese identity in the China-Myanmar borderlands. Josh has been doing research in Myanmar since 2003 and has conducted fieldwork on the border trade and the discourse of sinicization both in Myanmar and on the Chinese side of the border. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has studied Burmese in the United States and Myanmar. His work have appeared in the Nelson Report, the Myanmar Times, the Straits Times and Center for Strategic Studies PacNet Newsletter.
Josh Gordon is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Yale University. His dissertation research is on Chinese identity in the China-Myanmar borderlands. Josh has been doing research in Myanmar since 2003 and has conducted fieldwork on the border trade and the discourse of sinicization both in Myanmar and on the Chinese side of the border. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has studied Burmese in the United States and Myanmar. His work have appeared in the Nelson Report, the Myanmar Times, the Straits Times and Center for Strategic Studies PacNet Newsletter.
