Boom on the way from Ruili to Mandalay

Myanmar/Burma: Inside Challenges, Outside Interests

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 86-100

  Guo, Xiaolin ^a  

^a Institute for Security and Development Policy   (United States)

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References (23)

1. Pe Maung Tin and G. H. Luce, trans., The Glass Palace Chronicle of the Kings of Burma (Oxford University Press, 1923), pp. 80-83.
2. C. Patterson Giersch, Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier (Harvard University Press, 2006), pp. 100-07.
3. For more on the People's Republic of China nationalities' work as part of nation building in relation to the Chinese Communist Party's rhetoric of development, see Xiaolin Guo, State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2008), pp. 5-9, 41-61.
4. This was a party-to-party rather than country-to-country relationship. For a brief history of that period, see Xiaolin Guo, "Towards Resolution: China in the Myanmar Issue", Silk Road Paper (Uppsala, Sweden: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, March 2007), pp. 37-47.
5. For an analysis of the interaction between national development plans and local strategies in different periods of China's economic reform, see Guo, State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest, pp. 98-107.
6. For more on the ceasefire movement and the political implications, see Martin Smith, State of Strife: The Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict in Burma (Washington: East-West Center, 2007)
7. and Mary P. Callahan, Political Authority in Burma's Ethnic Minority States: Devolution, Occupation, and Co-existence (Washington: East-West Center, 2007).
8. Chenyang Li and Jianwen Qu, eds., Miandian "jiasha geming": Qiyin, qushi, yingxiang yu duice yantaohui lunwenji [Collected papers from the conference "Myan-mar's 'saffron revolution': origin, trend, impact, and policy adjustment"] (Kunming, China: Yunnan University Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007).
9. Chenyang Li and Lye Liang Fook, "China's Policies towards Myanmar: A Successful Model of Dealing with the Myanmar Issue?" China: An International Journal 7, no. 2(2009):255-87.
10. Markets, energy supply, and access to the Indian Ocean bypassing the Straits of Malacca are said to be China's major concerns. David I. Steinberg, Burma/Myan-mar: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 159-60.
11. Jim Webb, "We Can't Afford to Ignore Myanmar", New York Times, August 25, 2009.
12. Winston Set Aung, "The Role of Informal Cross-Border Trades in Myanmar", Asia Paper (Stockholm: Institute for Security and Development Policy, September 2009).
13. Liu Liu, Zhang Ying, and Li Shaoming, "Ruili, Xiangyu haineiwai de 'dongfang zhubaocheng"' [Ruili: The famed Jewel City of the East], Yunnan Daily, September 24, 2009.
14. Ruili nianjian 2008, p. 109.
15. The owner of the Asia World Group is one of three Myanmar tycoons who allegedly have close ties with the military government and with China. Brian McCartan", On the March to Do Business in Myanmar", Asia Times, August 26, 2009.
16. Steinberg, Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know, p. 121.
17. For more on Chinese migrants (legal and illegal) in Myanmar, see Li and Fook, "China's Policies towards Myanmar", pp. 274-76.
18. Li and Fook, "China's Policies towards Myanmar", p. 266. The complaint from the Myanmar government may have been prompted by a Global Witness report on illegal timber trade.
19. Amy Barry and Jon Buckrell, "Dramatic Decrease in Illegal Timber Trade between Burma and China but Smuggling Continues", press release, Global Witness.org, October 21, 2009.
20. Giersch, Asian Borderlands, pp. 107-08.
21. Zhang Yixuan, "Yunnan: Cong 'xinanchuangkou' dao 'guojiamenhu"' [Yunnan: From "southwestern window" to "China's gateway"], People's Daily, overseas ed., June 26, 2009;
22. Xu Yuanfeng and Zhang Yixuan, "Dichu kaifang de mingpian" [Opening up is the policy], People's Daily, overseas ed., June 26, 2009.
23. The so-called liberated zones are said to "have often been politically administered, with networks of schools, health clinics, and regular armies." Smith, State of Strife, p. 12.