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Author Paluch, Gabrielle, 1985- author.

Title The opium queen [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] the untold story of the rebel who ruled the Golden Triangle / Gabrielle Paluch.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
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Note Includes index.
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Contents Formerly Known as Burma -- Before There Was A Golden Triangle -- Man, Woman, Myth, or Legend? -- Olive's Coming-Out -- A Curse on the House of Yang -- Operation Paper and the Queen of Kokang -- The Olive Branch -- In Prison, in Love, in Mandalay -- You Shall Not Say Her Name -- Sensuous Opium Queen, Miss Hairy Legs -- Call Me Uncle -- A Shame to Earn Riches -- The right man for a favor.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Lanham Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2023 Available via World Wide Web.
Subject Yang, Olive, 1927-2017.
Opium trade -- Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) -- History -- 20th century.
Gender-nonconforming people -- Burma -- Biography.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
Other Form: Online version: Paluch, Gabrielle, 1985- Opium queen Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023] 9781538131985 (DLC) 2022041068
ISBN 9781538131985 (electronic bk.)
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