How Chiang Kai-shek's defeated Koumintang army secretly dominated the Asian drug trade Based on recently declassified government documents, this book reveals the shocking true story of what happened after the Chinese Nationalists lost the revolution. Supported by Taiwan, the CIA, and the Thai government, the Koumintang reinvented itself as an anti-communist mercenary army fighting into the 1980s, before eventually becoming the drug lords who would make the Golden Triangle a household name.
How Chiang Kai-shek's defeated Koumintang army secretly dominated the Asian drug trade Based on recently declassified government documents, this book reveals the shocking true story of what happened after the Chinese Nationalists lost the revolution. Supported by Taiwan, the CIA, and the Thai government, the Koumintang reinvented itself as an anti-communist mercenary army fighting into the 1980s, before eventually becoming the drug lords who would make the Golden Triangle a household name.
Richard M. Gibson earned a BS in 1965 and in 1966 an MA in history at San Jose State College, San Jose, California. As a Naval officer from 1966-71, he served aboard ships in the Gulf of Tonkin and taught history at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. In 1971, Gibson joined the US Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. His postings included Martinique, French West Indies, Burma and Japan. He speaks French, Thai, and Japanese fluently, and received the Department of States meritorious and superior honor awards. Wen-hua Chen earned a BA in Chinese literature from Tunghai University, Taiwan and an MA in oriental history at Hiroshima University, Japan. Chen also studied at Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica. In 1975, he began a career with the United Nations as a Chinese translator, working in both Bangkok, Thailand, and at UN Headquarters in New York. He retired in 2000 and has been pursuing various writing projects, publishing several works in Chinese language periodicals in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.
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Introduction: Two Young Chinese Soldiers vii
Glossary of Key Players xiii
List of Abbreviations xvii
Chapter 1: Retreat from Yunnan 1
Chapter 2: Sorting Things Out in Tachilek 15
Chapter 3: Lieutenant General Li Mi 29
Chapter 4: Li Mi and His American Friends 45
Chapter 5: Li Mi's Yunnan Anticommunist National Salvation Army57
Chapter 6: Attacking Yunnan 69
Chapter 7: Washington Opts Out 87
Chapter 8: Li Mi's Army Settles into Burma 97
Chapter 9: Washington Cuts Its Losses 113
Chapter 10: Southern Strategy and Karen Allies 121
Chapter 11: The Road to the United Nations 131
Chapter 12: The United Nations vs. KMT Duplicity 139
Chapter 13: First Evacuation from Burma 153
Chapter 14: Liu Yuan-lin's Yunnan Anticommunist Volunteer Army165
Chapter 15: A Resurgent KMT 181
Chapter 16: Operation Mekong: Sino-Burmese Forces Rout the KMT191
Chapter 17: Air Battle Over Burma and American Weapons 205
Chapter 18: The Second KMT Evacuation 213
Chapter 19: Removing KMT Remnants from Laos 225
Chapter 20: Nationalist Chinese Armies in Thailand 235
Chapter 21: Thailand's Troublesome Guests 251
Chapter 22: Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of NationalDefense 265
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