The Chinese Heroin Trade

Author : Ko-lin Chin,Sheldon X. Zhang
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479865574

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The Chinese Heroin Trade by Ko-lin Chin,Sheldon X. Zhang Pdf

In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control in the so-called “Golden Triangle” drug-trafficking region are faced by Chinese and Southeast Asian authorities? In The Chinese Heroin Trade, noted criminologists Ko-Lin Chin and Sheldon Zhangexamine the social organization of the trafficking of heroin from the Golden Triangle to China and the wholesale and retail distribution of the drug in China. Based on face-to-face interviews with hundreds of incarcerated drug traffickers, street-level drug dealers, users, and authorities, paired with extensive fieldwork in the border areas of Burma and China and several major urban centers in China and Southeast Asia, this volume reveals how the drug trade has evolved in the Golden Triangle since the late 1980s. Chin and Zhang also explore the marked characteristics of heroin traffickers; the relationship between drug use and sales in China; and how China compares to other international drug markets. The Chinese Heroin Trade is a fascinating, nuanced account of the world of high-risk drug trafficking in a tightly-controlled society.

Author : Ko-lin;Zhang Chin (Sheldon X.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1395758940

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The Chinese Heroin Trade: Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Beyond by Ko-lin;Zhang Chin (Sheldon X.) Pdf

Author : Ko-lin Chin,Sheldon Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Drug control
ISBN : 1479832510

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The Chinese Heroin Trade by Ko-lin Chin,Sheldon Zhang Pdf

In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control in the so-called 'Golden Triangle' drug-trafficking region are faced by Chinese and Southeast Asian authorities? In 'The Chinese Heroin Trade', noted criminologists Ko-Lin Chin and Sheldon Zhang examine the social organization of the trafficking of heroin from the Golden Triangle to China and the wholesale and retail distribution of the drug in China.

Author : Ko-lin Chin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801457197

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The Golden Triangle by Ko-lin Chin Pdf

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 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.

Author : Frank Dikötter,Lars Laamann,Zhou Xun
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0226149056

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Narcotic Culture by Frank Dikötter,Lars Laamann,Zhou Xun Pdf

To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium—a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of Chinese communism. But, as Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition. In a stunning historical reversal, Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann, and Zhou Xun tell this different story of the relationship between opium and the Chinese. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. Narcotic Culture provides abundant evidence that the transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a "cure" that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.

Author : Kathryn Meyer,Terry Parssinen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461705871

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Webs of Smoke by Kathryn Meyer,Terry Parssinen Pdf

This fascinating history of international drug trafficking in the first half of the twentieth century follows the stories of American narcs and gangsters, Japanese spies, Chinese warlords, and soldiers of fortune whose lives revolved around opium. The drug trade centered on China, which was before 1949, the world's largest narcotic market. The authors tell the interlocking stories of the many extraordinary personalities_sinister and otherwise_involved in narcotics trafficking in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Drawing on a rich store of U.S., British, European, Japanese, and Chinese archives, this unique study will be invaluable for all readers interested in the drug trade and contemporary East Asian history.

Author : Niklas Swanström,Yin He
Publisher : Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Progra
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123196854

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China's War on Narcotics by Niklas Swanström,Yin He Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045481079

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The New Heroin Corridor by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Hong Lu,Terance D. Miethe,Bin Liang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317167228

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China's Drug Practices and Policies by Hong Lu,Terance D. Miethe,Bin Liang Pdf

In the context of global efforts to control the production, distribution and use of narcotic drugs, China's treatment of the problem provides an important means of understanding the social, political, and economic limits of national and international policies to regulate drug practices. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, China was known for its national addiction to opium, but its drug-eradication campaigns from the 1950s to the 1970s achieved unprecedented success that ultimately transformed China into a "drug-free" society. However, since the economic reforms and open-door policy of the late twentieth century, China is now facing a re-emergence of the production, use and trafficking of narcotic drugs. Employing case studies and a comparative historical approach, and drawing on a variety of data sources including historical records, official crime data only recently made available, and news reports, this book is the first English-language publication to provide such a comprehensive documentation and analysis of the nature of China's legal regulation of controlled substances. The authors also offer theoretical approaches for studying drug regulation, aspects of drug consumption cultures, the socio-political treatment of drugs during various historical periods and ongoing efforts to legislate drug trade, criminalize drug use and manage the drug addict population within national and international contexts.

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307961747

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Imperial Twilight by Stephen R. Platt Pdf

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.

Author : Alfred W. McCoy,Cathleen B. Read,Leonard Palmer Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : UCSD:31822003063377

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The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred W. McCoy,Cathleen B. Read,Leonard Palmer Adams Pdf

Author : Ko-lin Chin,Sheldon X. Zhang
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479895403

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The Chinese Heroin Trade by Ko-lin Chin,Sheldon X. Zhang Pdf

In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into China. Which organizations are behind the heroin trade? What problems and prospects of drug control in the so-called “Golden Triangle” drug-trafficking region are faced by Chinese and Southeast Asian authorities? In The Chinese Heroin Trade, noted criminologists Ko-Lin Chin and Sheldon Zhangexamine the social organization of the trafficking of heroin from the Golden Triangle to China and the wholesale and retail distribution of the drug in China. Based on face-to-face interviews with hundreds of incarcerated drug traffickers, street-level drug dealers, users, and authorities, paired with extensive fieldwork in the border areas of Burma and China and several major urban centers in China and Southeast Asia, this volume reveals how the drug trade has evolved in the Golden Triangle since the late 1980s. Chin and Zhang also explore the marked characteristics of heroin traffickers; the relationship between drug use and sales in China; and how China compares to other international drug markets. The Chinese Heroin Trade is a fascinating, nuanced account of the world of high-risk drug trafficking in a tightly-controlled society.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045480394

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U.S. International Drug Policy--Asian Gangs, Heroin, and the Drug Trade by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Frank Robertson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000991741

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Triangle of Death by Frank Robertson Pdf

Triangle of Death (1977) examines the growth of the international heroin trade, and its control by the Chinese secret societies known as Triads. It looks at the Triads active in Hong Kong, the Golden Triangle and Amsterdam, and shows how these groups have spread across the Western world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004440494

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Drug Policies and Development by Anonim Pdf

The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical perspective. Contributions address the drugs and development nexus from a range of critical viewpoints, highlighting gaps and contradictions, as well as exploring strategies and opportunities for enhanced linkages between drug control and development programming. Criminalisation and coercive law enforcement-based responses in international and national level drug control are shown to undermine peace, security and development objectives. Contributors include: Kenza Afsahi, Damon Barrett, David Bewley-Taylor, Daniel Brombacher, Julia Buxton, Mary Chinery-Hesse, John Collins, Joanne Csete, Sarah David, Ann Fordham, Corina Giacomello, Martin Jelsma, Sylvia Kay, Diederik Lohman, David Mansfield, José Ramos-Horta, Tuesday Reitano, Andrew Scheibe, Shaun Shelly, Khalid Tinasti, and Anna Versfeld.