
The Opium Queen
The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden Triangle
Gabrielle Paluch(Autor*in)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
Erschienen am 15. Juni 2023
Buch
Hardcover
236 Seiten
978-1-5381-3197-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Lanham, MD
USA
Produkt-Hinweis
mit Schutzumschlag
Illustrationen
Illustrations; Maps; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs
Maße
Höhe: 232 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
Gewicht
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-3197-8 (9781538131978)
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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 University's 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 AP's Bangkok Bureau. She is currently a contributor to McClatchy's 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 Trump's real estate deals across post-Soviet states. She is based in New York City.
In 2016, she earned an MA from Columbia University's 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 AP's Bangkok Bureau. She is currently a contributor to McClatchy's 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 Trump's real estate deals across post-Soviet states. She is based in New York City.