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The Golden Triangle: Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade
by
Ko-Lin Chin
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 build...more
Paperback, 280 pages
Published
January 1st 2009
by Cornell University Press
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Jul 29, 2011
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Gets a 3.5 for being well researched, but poorly written/organized. Chin offers an extensive amount of research, including some studies and interviews he has conducted with the Wa people (but he does admit that his own research is limited in scope, and therefore not to be taken as authoritative or representative of conditions everywhere in the Wa area/Shan State).
However, Chin organizes the information pretty haphazardly and his writing tends to wander. He could have incorporated his personal r...more
However, Chin organizes the information pretty haphazardly and his writing tends to wander. He could have incorporated his personal r...more
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