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.
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SUBJECT |
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 fast |
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Narcotics -- China
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HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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Narcotics
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SUBJECT |
China -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101
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Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055765
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Asia -- Golden Triangle
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China
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Chen, Wenhua (Historian), author.
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ISBN |
9780470830215 |
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0470830212 |
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9780470830208 |
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0470830204 |
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0470830182 |
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9780470830185 |
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0470830190 |
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9780470830192 |
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