Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands: Untold Stories of Overland Chinese Migrants During the Cold War , by Wen Chin-chang. Now, a new volume of scholarship by Academia Sinica researcher Wen Chin-chang (張雯勤) examines the oral histories of these borderland Chinese. The KMT supported military units inside Burma openly until 1961, and then covertly into the early 1990s. The Chinese Communists also saw a chance to spread communism in Burma as the region heated up during the Vietnam War. If her book accomplishes one thing, it’s showing how these common folk were motivated more by poverty and survival than by ideology.

Source: Taipei Times April 01, 2026 21:42 UTC