"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"--
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.
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Note to Readers |
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Chapter 1 The Country Formerly Known as Burma |
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Chapter 2 Before There Was a Golden Triangle |
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Chapter 3 Man, Woman, Myth, or Legend? |
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33 | (12) |
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Chapter 4 Olive's Coming-Out |
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45 | (14) |
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Chapter 5 A Curse on the House of Yang |
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59 | (14) |
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Chapter 6 Operation Paper and the Queen of Kokang |
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73 | (16) |
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Chapter 7 The Olive Branch |
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89 | (12) |
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Chapter 8 In Prison, in Love, in Mandalay |
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101 | (18) |
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Chapter 9 You Shall Not Say Her Name |
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119 | (6) |
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Chapter 10 Sensuous Opium Queen, Miss Hairy Legs |
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125 | (22) |
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147 | (6) |
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Chapter 12 A Shame to Earn Great Riches |
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153 | (18) |
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Chapter 13 The Right Man for a Favor |
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171 | (10) |
| Notes |
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181 | (20) |
| Bibliography |
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201 | (4) |
| Index |
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205 | |
Investigative journalist Gabrielle Paluch spent six years living in Myanmar and Thailand, reporting on both countries for Voice of America, the LA Times and other publications on a wide range of subjects including: natural disasters, coups, trafficking, migrants, parliamentary politics, elections, religious violence, civil war, and foreign investment.
In 2016, she earned an MA from Columbia Universitys Graduate School in Journalism and was awarded the H.L. Stevenson Fellowship for her groundbreaking reporting on female genital mutilation in Thailand. She spent the duration of the fellowship reporting from the APs Bangkok Bureau. She is currently a contributor to McClatchys investigative unit, focused on real estate and money laundering investigations. She has been selected as a SABEW Goldschmidt Fellow for 2018 and won a Best in Business award from the Society for Business Editors and Writers in the Explanatory Reporting category for her contributions to an investigation into Donald Trumps real estate deals across post-Soviet states. She is based in New York City.
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