The Chinese Heroin Trade

"Chin and Zhang are among the most influential criminologists working today, with a well-deserved international reputation. In this book, they join forces to bring us a most illuminating and ground-breaking study of a neglected topic, the rise of China as a major consumer of heroin. I doubt anybody can match their ingenuity and dedication to high quality scholarship, but we can all learn from them and admire." - Federico Varese,author of Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories "Ko-lin Chin and Sheldon Zhang have produced an in-depth study of the political realities, social significance and dynamics of the heroin trade in Southeast Asia. This is an important book for those who would understand the cultivation and production of heroin, drug markets and drug use. There is perhaps no other team so well-suited to illuminate this topic and this book will be a valuable reference for years to come. It is a testament to the skills and experience of these two outstanding researchers." - Scott Decker,author of Confronting Gangs: Crime and Community "This comprehensive study provides an in-depth analysis of a particular illegal market about which little has been known to date. This book makes a valuable addition to the still only small number of case studies that permit a comparison of the structure and dynamics of illegal markets across, space, time and socio-political contexts." - Klaus von Lampe,co-author of Crime Business and Crime Money in Europe