Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Literature powerfully written

powerfully written

accompanied by the original Dutch text

WATTANA SUGUNNASIL is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Depart­ment of Social Sciences

a young man who leaves China to make his fortune in Thailand at the close of World War II

Bangkok on the Nile

Cashing In across the Golden Triangle: Thailand’s Northern Border Trade with China, Laos, and Myanmar Literature powerfully writtenThein Swe and Paul Chambers Historically, the Golden Triangle on the Mekong River has been a strategic yet largely impoverished crossroads between Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and southern China. In the latter half of the twentieth century, it was known as one of the worlds key opiumproducing regions. The new transnational economic corridors connecting northern Thailand and southwestern China via key border towns in Myanmar and Laos have greatly increased