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The Golden Triangle : Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade by Chin, Ko-lin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Golden Triangle : Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade about?
The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently conflicting parallel strands of criminality and efforts at state building, a tension embodied by a group of individuals who are simultaneously local political leaders, drug entrepreneurs, and members of heavily armed militias.Ko-lin Chin, a Chinese American criminologist who was born and raised in Burma, conducted five hundred face-to-face interviews with poppy growers, drug dealers, drug users, armed group leaders, law-enforcement authorities, and other key informants in Burma, Thailand, and China. __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.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
Who reads The Golden Triangle : Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Chin, Ko-lin
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801457197
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, History, Sociology