Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia (40 page)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Teddy and Kermit, hunting expedition

rubber plantations

Ruili City; Burmese population; drug trafficking; HIV/AIDS

Ruili River

Sagaing City; monasteries; shopping centres

Sakander palace

salt

Salween River; dam projects

Sanxingdui culture

Satavahana dynasty

Sayyid Ajall Shams al-Din Omar

Scotland, colonial traders from

Senas dynasty

Shaanxi province

Shadian people

Shan Hills

Shan people; British rule; dress; early history; languages

Shan State Army

Shanghai

Shangri-La

Shi Huang Ti (‘First Emperor’)

Shu kingdom;
see also
Sichuan

Shwedagon pagoda

Siam;
see also
Thailand

Sichuan

Silk Road

silver

Sima Qian

Singapore

Singh, Bodhachandra

Singh, Manmohan

Singh, King Purandar

Sino-Indian War (1962)

Sino-Japanese War (Second)

Slim, General William

Song dynasty

Southeast Asia; Japanese invasion; languages

South Korea

Sri Vijaya empire

Stilwell, General Joseph

Stilwell Road; plans to rebuild

Stone Cattle Road

Suez Canal

Sukaphaa, King

Sultan, Lieutenant General Daniel

Sung dynasty

Tagore, Rabindranath

Taiping Rebellion

Taiwan

Tang dynasty

Tangut people

Tarons

Tavoy, industrial complex

Tawang

Taxila

Tayok-pyay-min

tea

Tennis Court, Battle of the

Tezpur

Thado Maha Bandula, General

Thailand

Than Shwe, General

Thant Myint-U: ancestry; upbringing

Thein Sein

Thibaw, King

Tiananmen Square

Tibet; ancient history; Manchu dynasty rule; Mongol rule; People’s Liberation Army take-over (1950); protests

tigers

Timur Lang

Tocharian language

Treaty of Yandabo

Tripura kingdom

Turpan kingdom

Uighur people; clashes with Han Chinese

Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)

United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)

United Nations: aid to Burma; UN Security Council resolution against Burma

United States: aid offer to Burma; building of Stilwell Road; relations with Burma; relations with China; relations with India; support for Chinese nationalists;
see also
CIA

United Wa State Army (UWSA)

Uriyangkadai, Prince

Uttar Pradesh

Vatsyayana

Vespasian, Emperor

Viet Minh

Vietnam; independence; invasion of Cambodia

Vikramshila University

Wa Hills

Wa people; arms manufacture; language; ‘Tame Wa’; ‘Wild Wa’

Wang Hong

weizzas
(wizards)

Wen Jiabao

The White Tiger
(Adiga)

World Food Programme (WFP)

World War I

World War II;
see also
Sino-Japanese war

Wu, Emperor

Wu Peifu (‘Philosopher Warlord’)

Wu Sangui, General

Wu Shangxian (‘The Short-Legged Tiger’)

Wu-man tribe

Xiaguan

Xian Incident

Xinjiang (Chinese Turkistan)

Xiongnu people

Yang, Olive (Yang Lyin Hsui)

Yang Shen

Yangtze river

Yao people

Yawnghwe,
sawbwa
of

Yelang kingdom

Yelu Dashi, King

Yi people

Yongzheng, Emperor

Younghusband, Sir Francis

Yue kingdom

Yuezhi people

Yungning kingdom

Yunnan; ancient history; criminal networks; dam projects; deforestation/logging; drought (2010); during the Cultural Revolution; early trade; economic development; ethnic minorities; GDP per capita; Han Chinese immigration; land reform; Ming dynasty rule; mining; Mongol rule; Nanzhao dynasty rule; natural resources; as new regional hub; rural impoverishment; tourism

Zhang Qian (explorer)

Zhang Xiumei

Zhang Xueliang

Zhang Zongchang (‘Dogmeat General’)

Zheng He, Admiral

Zhou Enlai, Premier

Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor

Zhuang people

zouhun
(‘walking marriage’)

SOFIA BUSCH

Where China Meets India

Thant Myint-U was educated at Harvard and Cambridge universities and later taught history for several years as a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has also served on United Nations peace-keeping operations in Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia, as well as with the United Nations Secretariat in New York. He is the author of a personal history of Burma,
The River of Lost Footsteps
.