Living Mekong, The Tai Study “This brilliantly researched book explains

“This brilliantly researched book explains the part that the environment has played in several colonial schemes in the Mekong Delta and in America’s most tragic war there

This book raises much-needed awareness of commonly held misconceptions and clarifies what we know and what we have yet to discover about the trafficking of persons to and from Thailand

and Burmese generals who have built empires on the suffering of millions

MA XUEFENG is a lecturer on Hui Muslim society at Yunnan University

Living Mekong, The Tai Study “This brilliantly researched book explainsPhotography by Joe Garrison, text by Delia Paul Color photographs throughout. Hardcover, paper on board, jacket The Living Mekong shows how the Mekong's seasonal rise and fall shapes daily life for the people who live on and around it, in matters from transport to festivals to fish trap design. By world standards, the Mekong fishery is immense in scale, producing around 2. 5 million tons of wild fish a year, or roughly two per cent of the entire world