The Golden Triangle : inside Southeast Asia's drug trade / Ko-lin Chin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chin, Ko-lin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug traffic--Burma--Shan State.

Drug traffic.

Drug traffic--Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia).

Wa (Asian people)--Commerce.

Wa (Asian people).

Commerce.

Burma--Shan State.

Physical Description:

xi, 280 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.

Summary:

The Golden Triangle provides a lively portrait of a region in constant transition, a place where political development is intimately linked to the vagaries of the global market in illicit drugs. Ko-lin Chin explains the nature of opium growing, heroin and methamphetamine production, drug sales, and drug use. He also shows how government officials who live in these areas view themselves not as drug kingpins, but as people who are carrying the responsibility for local economic development on their shoulders.

Contents:

Introduction : into the thick of it

The Golden Triangle and Burma

The Wa

The opium trade

Heroin production and trafficking

The methamphetamine business

Drug use

Drug control

The business and politics of drugs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-273) and index.

ISBN:

080144666X

9780801446665

080147521X

9780801475214

OCLC:

244246644