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Author Gibson, Richard M.

Title The secret army : Chiang Kai-Shek and the drug warlords of the golden triangle / Richard M. Gibson with Wenhua Chen
Published Singapore : Wiley, 2011

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, portraits
Contents Introduction: two young Chinese soldiers -- Retreat from Yunnan -- Sorting things out in Tachilek -- Lieutenant General Li Mi -- Li Mi and his American friends -- Li Mi's Yunnan Anticommunist National Salvation Army -- Attacking Yunnan -- Washington opts out -- Li Mi's army aettles into Burma -- Washington cuts its losses -- Southern strategy and Karen allies -- The road to the United Nations -- The United Nations vs. KMT duplicity -- First evacuation from Burma -- Liu Yuan-lin's Yunnan Anticommunist volunteer army -- A resurgent KMT -- Operation Mekong: Sino-Burmese forces rout the KMT -- Air battle over Burma and American weapons -- The second KMT evacuation -- Removing KMT remnants from Laos -- Nationalist Chinese armies in Thailand -- Thailand's troublesome guests -- Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense -- Resettlement in Thailand -- Soldiering on for Thailand -- Postscript
Summary 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 mercenary force, fighting into the 1980s, before eventually becoming the drug lords who made the Golden Triangle a household name
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.
SUBJECT Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 fast
Subject Narcotics -- China
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Narcotics
SUBJECT China -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055765
Subject Asia -- Golden Triangle
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Chen, Wenhua (Historian), author.
ISBN 9780470830215
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