The Opium Queen: The Untold Story of the Rebel Who Ruled the Golden Triangle

Publishers Weekly calls the book "a jaw dropping study of a lesser—known yet larger—than—life figure.”

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.

Olive Yang was a widely mythologized genderqueer lesbian opium—pioneer in the 1950s heyday of the Golden Triangle. After escaping an arranged marriage wi...