Empire of Shadows: Rangoon Noir communism Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai

Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai Party

PETER KUNSTADTER has been working in northern Thailand since 1963 on a number of ethnographic

ทั้งด้านเทคนิคและอารมณ์ความรู้สึกจริงใจ

and torture

‘David is a poet

Empire of Shadows: Rangoon Noir communism Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak ThaiEmpire of Shadows: Rangoon Noir is set in colonial Rangoon from the late 1920s through to the end of the Second World War. It traces the meteoric rise and bloody unraveling of Lanmadaw Phoe Toke, a dockside street fighter who claws his way to the top of Rangoons underworld. As British rule weakens and Japanese forces push into Burma, Phoe Toke dominates a treacherous world of gang warfare, police corruption, political intrigue, labour riots and