The Production and Use of Opium in the Northern Thai Uplands
An Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11156643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony R Walker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-154 |
| Publication date | 1980-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0129-797X |
| Publisher | ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1355/cs2-2c |
| OpenAlex | W2047990557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The country of north Thailand provides a home and/or liveli hood for well over half a million, perhaps now closer to three-quarters of a million people.1 About 350,000 or more of these uplanders are members of one or another of the traditional hill tribes of this area of northern Southeast Asia.2 True mountaineers, these groups dominate the higher elevations of the country. But lower down, there are probably at least a quarter of a million Tai3 peoples?a fact frequently overlooked by commentators on the upland situation in Thailand. Most of these are Tai Yuan or Khon Muang, representatives of the dominant lowland population of north Thailand. It is not by choice that these traditionally plains-dwelling, irrigated-rice-farming folk today constitute such a large element of the population. It is the consequence of unpleasant economic necessity brought about by the lack of sufficient irrigable land in the valleys. This shortage of land is due to the massive population explosion there in recent decades.4 Another recent, but less reluctant, addition to the traditional population of the northern hills is the Yunnanese Chinese people, known locally as Haw, or Chin Haw. Yunnanese Chinese, many of them Muslims, have long been familiar to both upland and lowland peoples of north Thailand as carriers of goods along the ancient trade routes between Yunnan and northern Southeast Asia. But their modern presence in north Thailand, numbering probably not less than ten thousand,5 is the result of China's recent political and military his
Archaeology · Economics · Geography · Opium · Production (economics · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 1995 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |