Ko Lin Chin: 4 books
Going Down to the Sea
Chinese Sex Workers Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In Chongqing, Ling Ling had been a waitress earning twenty-five dollars a month; a few years later in Hong Kong she was making six times that each day. Kelly taught preschool in Beijing for ten years before moving to LA and opening a brothel. These are just two of the eighteen Chinese women interviewed...
Selling Sex Overseas
Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
2013 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Division of International Criminology, American Society of Criminology
Every year, thousands of Chinese women travel to Asia and the United States in order to engage in commercial sex work. In Selling Sex Overseas, Ko-lin Chin and James Finckenauer...
The Chinese Heroin Trade
Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
In a country long associated with the trade in opiates, the Chinese government has for decades applied extreme measures to curtail the spread of illicit drugs, only to find that the problem has worsened. Burma is blamed as the major producer of illicit drugs and conduit for the entry of drugs into...
The Golden Triangle
Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphetamine production. Opportunistic Chinese businessmen and leaders of various armed groups are largely responsible for the manufacture of these drugs. The region is defined by the apparently...