Kokang: A Novel of Southeast Asia

Deep in the hills of Eastern Burma, pushed to the border of China's Yunnan province north and east lies a region called Kokang. Thirty miles wide and seventy long, Kokang's northernmost point reaches the Himalayan foothills at over eight thousand feet, and drops abruptly into the southern Lao Kai plain which includes the Malipa valley. Part way down the descent sits a large settlement called Chingshan 青山, "Green Mountain." The leaders of Chingshan control a global empire worth billions of d...