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Article Excerpt
The Golden Triangle: Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade. By Ko-Lin Chin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. Softcover: 280pp.
Myanmar's drug trade has been eclipsed in recent years by the surge of opium cultivation in Afghanistan. Even though Myanmar is now a distant second in global heroin production and exports, it has during the same period become the largest producer of methamphetamines in Asia. Ko-lin Chin's new book provides the most complete, balanced and insightful study of the Southeast Asian drug trade in twenty years, investigating the dramatic market shift from opium to methamphetamines in the "Golden Triangle", that confluence of the Mekong River where Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Yunnan province all meet.
Chin, a renowned criminologist from Rutgers University, has previously written about Chinese street gangs in America and transnational human smuggling networks. Fluent in both Chinese and Burmese, he is uniquely experienced to conduct fieldwork in places like the former headhunter communities of the Wa hills of...
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