LEADER 03414nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910459677803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5843-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801458439 035 $a(CKB)2670000000078906 035 $a(OCoLC)630718424 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457706 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138084 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28734 035 $a(DE-B1597)480034 035 $a(OCoLC)1013937802 035 $a(OCoLC)957637997 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801458439 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138084 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457706 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000078906 100 $a20080814d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Golden Triangle$b[electronic resource] $einside Southeast Asia's drug trade /$fKo-lin Chin 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 311 $a0-8014-4666-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Into the Thick of It -- $t1. The Golden Triangle and Burma -- $t2. The Wa -- $t3. The Opium Trade -- $t4. Heroin Production and Trafficking -- $t5. The Methamphetamine Business -- $t6. Drug Use -- $t7. Drug Control -- $t8. The Business and Politics of Drugs -- $tAppendix: Names in Pinyin Romanization and Other Spellings -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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 as drug kingpins, but as people who are carrying the responsibility for local economic development on their shoulders. 606 $aDrug traffic$zBurma$zShan State 606 $aDrug traffic$zGolden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 606 $aWa (Burmese people)$xCommerce 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDrug traffic 615 0$aDrug traffic 615 0$aWa (Burmese people)$xCommerce. 676 $a363.4509591 700 $aChin$b Ko-lin$0847180 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459677803321 996 $aThe Golden Triangle$92443220 997 $aUNINA