LEADER 03660nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910781787403321 005 20230116125901.0 010 $a0-470-83021-2 010 $a1-283-25772-6 010 $a9786613257727 010 $a0-470-83020-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000045611 035 $a(EBL)693386 035 $a(OCoLC)759159282 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000640959 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11458612 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640959 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10614924 035 $a(PQKB)10917527 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC693386 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL693386 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10494568 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL325772 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000045611 100 $a20111011d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe secret army$b[electronic resource] $eChiang Kai-Shek and the drug warlords of the golden triangle /$fRichard M. Gibson with Wenhua Chen 210 $aSingapore $cWiley$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (362 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-470-83018-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Secret Army: Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle; Table of Contents; Introduction: Two Young Chinese Soldiers; Glossary of Key Players; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Retreat from Yunnan; Chapter 2: Sorting Things Out in Tachilek; Chapter 3: Lieutenant General Li Mi; Chapter 4: Li Mi and His American Friends; Chapter 5: Li Mi's Yunnan Anticommunist National Salvation Army; Chapter 6: Attacking Yunnan; Chapter 7: Washington Opts Out; Chapter 8: Li Mi's Army Settles into Burma; Chapter 9: Washington Cuts Its Losses; Chapter 10: Southern Strategy and Karen Allies 327 $aChapter 11: The Road to the United NationsChapter 12: The United Nations vs. KMT Duplicity; Chapter 13: First Evacuation from Burma; Chapter 14: Liu Yuan-lin's Yunnan Anticommunist Volunteer Army; Chapter 15: A Resurgent KMT; Chapter 16: Operation Mekong: Sino-Burmese Forces Rout the KMT; Chapter 17: Air Battle Over Burma and American Weapons; Chapter 18: The Second KMT Evacuation; Chapter 19: Removing KMT Remnants from Laos; Chapter 20: Nationalist Chinese Armies in Thailand; Chapter 21: Thailand's Troublesome Guests; Chapter 22: Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense 327 $aChapter 23: Resettlement in ThailandChapter 24: Soldiering on for Thailand; Chapter 25: Postscript; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe incredible story of how Chiang Kai-shek's defeated army came to dominate the Asian drug trade After their defeat in China's civil war, remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's armies took refuge in Burma before being driven into Thailand and Laos. Based on recently declassified government documents, The Secret Army: Chiang Kai-shek and the Drug Warlords of the Golden Triangle reveals the shocking true story of what happened after the Chinese Nationalists lost the revolution. Supported by Taiwan, the CIA, and the Thai government, this former army reinvented itself as an anti-communist 606 $aNarcotics$zChina 607 $aChina$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aGolden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 615 0$aNarcotics 676 $a300 676 $a951.05 700 $aGibson$b Richard M$01521315 701 $aChen$b Wenhua$0763046 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781787403321 996 $aThe secret army$93760373 997 $aUNINA