The opium queen : the untold story of the rebel who ruled the Golden Triangle
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
959.051/PALUCH,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
DESCRIPTION
xv, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781538131978, 1538131978 :, 1538131978, 9781538131978
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The country Formerly Known as Burma -- Before There Was A Golden Triangle -- Man, Woman, Myth, or Legend? -- Olive's Coming-Out -- A Curse on the House of Yang -- Operation Paper and the Queen of Kokang -- The Olive Branch -- In Prison, in Love, in Mandalay -- You Shall Not Say Her Name -- Sensuous Opium Queen, Miss Hairy Legs -- Call Me Uncle -- A Shame to Earn Riches -- The right man for a favor
"Opium Queen is the true story of the widely mythologized genderqueer Burmese opium-pioneer of noble Chinese descent, Olive Yang, who secretly ran an anti-communist rebel army supported by the CIA in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle"--