Chasing the Dragon

Chasing the Dragon
Title Chasing the Dragon PDF eBook
Author Jackie Pullinger
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages 272
Release 2012-01-19
Genre Religion
ISBN 1444717979

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Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, prostitutes quit, and Jackie discovered a new treatment for drug addiction: baptism in the Holy Spirit.

Chasing the Dragon

Chasing the Dragon
Title Chasing the Dragon PDF eBook
Author Christopher R. Cox
Publisher Holt Paperbacks
Total Pages 352
Release 2014-05-13
Genre Travel
ISBN 146687144X

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Chasing the Dragon is the story of a Boston Herald reporter's journey into Burma/Myanmar to interview the mysterious drug lord, Khun Sa. The features desk of an American newspaper may seem an unlikely launchpad for a journey into one of the world's most remote and dangerous regions, but for journalist Christopher Cox, it was where the story began. It would end nearly three years later in the almost inaccessible mountain fastnesses of Shan State, Burma, as Cox brought off a journalistic coup even hard-bitten foreign correspondents might envy: a rare personal audience with General Khun Sa, the man U.S. law enforcement dubbed "The Prince of Death," the man thought to control a third of the world's supply of heroin. Accompanied by an obsessed Vietnam vet who had given up everything in his single-minded search for American POWs left behind in Southeast Asia and an eccentric expat with close personal ties to the general, Cox was going to cross forbidden borders to enter a region long off-limits to Westerners. And armed with little more than a backpack stuffed with vodka, porno tapes, and cigarettes, he was going to succeed. His journey would take him deep into the Golden Triangle, a shadowy zone of banditry, drug smuggling, and the ghost armies of past wars. He would begin in the red-light district of Bangkok, with its sex bars and soaring HIV rates, then head up into northern borderlands newly discovers by package-tour groups, and finally cross a jungled no-man's-land into the world of the Shan, where tough tribesmen trade opium and precious gemstones for the arms they need to fight the Burmese.

Chasing the Dragon

Chasing the Dragon
Title Chasing the Dragon PDF eBook
Author Denton J Tipton
Publisher Magma
Total Pages 124
Release 2021-08-24
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 9781736817902

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In Chasing the Dragon, New York Times Bestselling writer Denton J. Tipton explores a dark fantasy world ravaged by the rampant abuse of a drug made from the blood of dragons. For fans of The Witcher and Breaking Bad. In Chasing the Dragon, New York Times Bestselling writer Denton J. Tipton and celebrated painter menton3explore a dark fantasy world ravaged by the rampant abuse of a drug made from the blood of dragons. When two young slaves discover a terrible secret that could change the course of the world, will a meek alchemist’s apprentice and a drug-addled concubine survive long outside their cages? For fans of The Witcher and Breaking Bad.

Chasing the Dragon's Tail

Chasing the Dragon's Tail
Title Chasing the Dragon's Tail PDF eBook
Author Yoshio Manaka
Publisher Paradigm Publications
Total Pages 500
Release 1995
Genre Acupuncture
ISBN 9780912111322

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The text introduces Dr Manaka's major clinical and theoretical accomplishments by describing how the 'X-signal system' is the foundation of human topography, function, and response. In essence, the X-signal system defines qi, yin-yang, and the five phases as clinical events, rather than as abstract theories. The text gives Western readers the first complete description of this treatment system.

Chasing the Dragons

Chasing the Dragons
Title Chasing the Dragons PDF eBook
Author Mike Mulloy
Publisher
Total Pages 285
Release 1997
Genre Drug control
ISBN 9781901442021

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Beyond Bruce Lee

Beyond Bruce Lee
Title Beyond Bruce Lee PDF eBook
Author Paul Bowman
Publisher Columbia University Press
Total Pages 225
Release 2013-03-26
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0231850360

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In order to understand Bruce Lee, we must look beyond Bruce Lee to the artist's intricate cultural and historical contexts. This work begins by contextualising Lee, examining his films and martial arts work, and his changing cultural status within different times and places. The text examines Bruce Lee's films and philosophy in relation to the popular culture and cultural politics of the 1960s and 1970s, and it addresses the resurgence of his popularity in Hong Kong and China in the twenty-first century. The study also explores Lee's ongoing legacy and influence in the West, considering his function as a shifting symbol of ethnic politics and the ways in which he continues to inform Hollywood film-fight choreography. Beyond Bruce Lee ultimately argues Lee is best understood in terms of "cultural translation" and that his interventions and importance are ongoing.

Chasing the Dragon

Chasing the Dragon
Title Chasing the Dragon PDF eBook
Author Jeff Apter
Publisher Woodslane Press
Total Pages 282
Release 2023-02-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1922800341

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He had it all: the heroin chic thing before it was chic, the scars, the swagger, an incredible stage presence. After bursting on to the Australian music scene in 1975, Dragon fast developed a reputation for both hard rocking and hard living. As the highly visible and charismatic lead singer, Marc Hunter was the voice behind such timeless hits as ‘April Sun in Cuba', ‘Are You Old Enough?' and ‘Rain'. Yet Hunter was also a maverick whose destructive genius and serious heroin addiction led to a turbulent relationship with his bandmates, including older brother Todd. And it contributed to his early death at just 44. Originally published in 2011, this intimate portrait was written with full co-operation from Marc's mother Voi and his brother and former bandmate Todd, as well as contributions from many high-profile Australian music personalities such as James Reyne, John Paul Young, Kate Fitzpatrick, Richard Clapton, Don Walker, Kevin Borich, Tommy Emmanuel and Robert Forster.